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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam Over 4(X) years ago, a gallant Spanish knight lay In a dismal castle, recovering from the wounds of battle. To such a man of action, this confinement was every bit as bad as imprisonment. His young, imaginative mind yearned for opportunities to fulfill his knightly vows, for at this time chivalry still inspired the ambitions of men. He bore his pains in silence but the time pressed heavily upon him and he asked for something to read. He craved for nourishment to satisfy his chivalrous fancy—perhaps a romance, the novel of his day, of which he was so fond. But the only books available were the lives of Christ and the saints. Reading these, he thought, was better than reading nothing at all, and as time wore on the young knight s vivid imagination began to work. He put himself into the settings of what he read. He compared what he would have done with what the saints did in the time of peril and crisis. Then gradually came the realization that these men—popes, martyrs, scholars, missionaries—were as gallant and brave as the most heroic of knights. Their code of chivalry, he saw, was supreme. And in the life of Christ he perceived a Lord worth following, a Hero
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Ad majorem Dei gloriani, to the greater glory of God, is a dynamic motive adopted as a motto by the Society of Jesus. The Hilltop. Volume XXXVII, incorporating this motto as its theme, salutes the Marquette Jesuits and their activity. By sounding out the utter depths of students’ souls and inscribing there the same scale of basic values they motivate a subtle pervasive school spirit which intrinsically unifies without extrinsieallv uniformaliz-ing the student botlv.
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