Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesuit Martyrs of North America meticulous Father John J. Wynne, S.J., describes with careful detail how the martyrs were tortured in the New York and Canadian woods by Indians who tore out their nails, hair and beards, chewed their fingers, and as one martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many...
Later in the day it was learned that Pope Pius XI had been almost prostrated by grief at news of the sacrilege. "The Holy Father was much shaken," said a Jesuit prelate...
...Marshal Foch's brother, Father Germain Foch, is a Jesuit priest, the Marshal himself was Jesuit trained...