. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. THE KNIOHTS OF COLllMIM]]^ IN MEAjCOE AMB ^^^^^^. KniBhts of ColumbuB Chaplains Overseas In December. 1917. SUnding; Rev. G. C. Van Goethamj Rev. J. B. De Valles. C. de G; Rev. OKiaE Bnuoher, 0 de G. Se;aed. from left to rieht are: Rev. Caniille De Loux; Rev. Michael Nivard; Rev. J. M. Blaia. Fighting Shepherds and Their Fighting Flocks 283 some weeks. He slept in dug-outs and in shell-holes, and wastreated for gas-poisoning more times than he remembered. Heleft the war with the conviction that men knew how to die whenthey had their priests with them
. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. THE KNIOHTS OF COLllMIM]]^ IN MEAjCOE AMB ^^^^^^. KniBhts of ColumbuB Chaplains Overseas In December. 1917. SUnding; Rev. G. C. Van Goethamj Rev. J. B. De Valles. C. de G; Rev. OKiaE Bnuoher, 0 de G. Se;aed. from left to rieht are: Rev. Caniille De Loux; Rev. Michael Nivard; Rev. J. M. Blaia. Fighting Shepherds and Their Fighting Flocks 283 some weeks. He slept in dug-outs and in shell-holes, and wastreated for gas-poisoning more times than he remembered. Heleft the war with the conviction that men knew how to die whenthey had their priests with them. There was a boy named Gilles hit by a machine-gun bullet,Father Blais reports. He came from Brooklyn and was a good,pious boy. He called for me as soon as he was wounded. Hefelt death approaching and he faced it like a Christian, magnifi-cently. Tell mother I tried to do my very best to the very endwere his last words. Father Blais anointed the lad, there inthe dark, with hundreds of other wounded lying around, a candlesputtering fitfully in the recess of a dug-out near at hand. The war
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