College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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aterially the end of the Crusades was worth very little. Men fought and died, and the iniidel remained in the Holy Land, the world went On as if nothing had happened. But something had happened,-men had fought for an infinite goal, and they could never he the same again. How had they done this? Why would they never again be the same? A hermit-dirty and disheveled-had shown his soul to these men, and through a trembling voice had transmitted his spirit to them. The Crusaders looked and listened, and could not ignore what they had seen and heard. Here at Holy Cross the modern Crusader has an equal impetus toward the Infinite in those men who have given their lives to God and to us, who seek ever to impel us onward to Truth. Our material success matters little to them, for like those medieval monks they, too, preach a Crusade and, recognizing that our goal is Infinite, spur our accomplishments ever higher.

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President and fRector of 'Holg Cross College 'Oerg CReve1'eud John A. O'13rien, S. J 1