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rv? =i-C l i reater love than this no man hath, than that a man lay down his life for his friend.
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THE MARTYRS of North Amen ' ca
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Group of pilgrims attending Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the ravine at the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, N.Y. In some undiscovered spot of this hallowed ground, lie the sacred remains of Rene Goupil, buried there by Isaac Jogues, in 1643. Jogues himself and John de Lalande were also martyred on this site, and their bodies hurled into the Mohawk River. The other five martyrs were put to death, near Midland, Ontario. Wnz tora of the Martgrs Uunncth i:iius O our generation, perhaps more than to any other, the primary aspect of life is one of conflict. We have matured to enter a world of war, and have known useless, horrible destruction, such as has never before occurred. We have seen the safety of our vast, arduously constructed civilization imperiled by the same forces which brought it into being. These are the forces of strife, of conflict ; and it is truly they that mold the life of humanity. History and personal experience compel us to see in man ' s existence a ceaseless struggle to learn, to love, to perfect, to be happy; a struggle against the very elements, against illness, both spiritual and physical, against hate, against ambition, treachery and deception. Good or evil, right or wrong, all are acquired or avoided only by some type of com- bat. The warrior ' s reward from the world is honor. To those who give their lives for others, as have one hundred and seventy-one sons of Georgetown, we offer special love and grati- tude. Here we shall speak of another, an even greater sacrifice. We shall speak of eight men who died, not that men might live on earth, but that they might gain the eternal, perfect life with God. What sort of world was it, the world of three hundred years ago, that produced these giants of faith? The Thirty Years ' War shook Europe and produced such leaders as Tilly, Wallenstein, Gustavus Adolphus and Turenne. It was the age of literary genius. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Lord Bacon, Moliere, Corneille and Racine produced works that have en- riched our culture immeasurably. Science was coming into its birthright ; Galileo, Torrecelli, Napier, Kircher, Huygens, Kepler, and count-
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