. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first Jfstserican Catftollc missionary Congress After the fall of the Roman Empire, or rather during theperiod of its fall, while barbarian hosts were still crowding overthe frontier, wherever invaders and defenders were contend-ing in battle, Catholic missionaries were always found fol-lowing closely after them, not seeking to share in the plunderor the spoils, but eager to help the wounded, shrive the dy-ing, and bury the dead. Disdaining all reward and indifferentto every danger, undaunted by flights of arrows or the furyof charging horseme
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first Jfstserican Catftollc missionary Congress After the fall of the Roman Empire, or rather during theperiod of its fall, while barbarian hosts were still crowding overthe frontier, wherever invaders and defenders were contend-ing in battle, Catholic missionaries were always found fol-lowing closely after them, not seeking to share in the plunderor the spoils, but eager to help the wounded, shrive the dy-ing, and bury the dead. Disdaining all reward and indifferentto every danger, undaunted by flights of arrows or the furyof charging horsemen, they displayed more bravery in effortsto win souls to God than any savage warrior wdio ever foughtto win territory or booty. The spectacle of these heroic war-riors of the Cross suffering everything for others, risking thegravest dangers without the slightest hope of personal benefitmerely that other men-—strangers to them—might be served andbenefited, so impressed the rude warriors from the northern for-ests that they urged these missiona
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