Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . tal butchery, are not unmindful of the Savioursadvice to love even our enemies — above all, if the latterare in great stress themselves. Thus Rev. Landrieux ofthe cathedral of Rheims, while the church was burning,saved from its ruins at the risk of his life a group ofwounded German soldiers. The enraged population wasabout to lynch them. You will have to kill me first,said the courageous priest. Words fail to describe asthey deserve the deeds of Bishop Lobbedeye of Arras andhis clergy. The tradition of the catacombs revived; a cellar wastransformed int
Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . tal butchery, are not unmindful of the Savioursadvice to love even our enemies — above all, if the latterare in great stress themselves. Thus Rev. Landrieux ofthe cathedral of Rheims, while the church was burning,saved from its ruins at the risk of his life a group ofwounded German soldiers. The enraged population wasabout to lynch them. You will have to kill me first,said the courageous priest. Words fail to describe asthey deserve the deeds of Bishop Lobbedeye of Arras andhis clergy. The tradition of the catacombs revived; a cellar wastransformed into a church (while the town was underbombardment) and here the Bishop read his mass. Thepriests threw off their soutanes to become police andfiremen, moving men and grave diggers. One of them,de Bonnieres, of noble birth, went every morning, brav-ing the bullets which whistled about his ears, into thesuburbs begging the soldiers for the scraps, left overfrom their meals, to distribute these pittances among thestarving poor of Arras. 218. ^JiA?A^i^^ ? ( f
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