Suffering for the faith

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Pàgina 172 - Then Judge Clinch stood up, and said : " Margaret Clitherow, how say you ? [Are you] guilty of this indictment, or no ? " Then she [being] about to answer, they commanded her to put off her hat, and then she said mildly with a bold and smiling countenance : " I know no offence whereof I should confess myself guilty.
Pàgina 179 - ... if I should have seen any of them brought forth before me, to give evidence against me in so good a cause and be guilty of my blood; and, secondly...
Pàgina 178 - ... and especially for Elizabeth, Queen of England, that God turn her to the Catholic faith, and that after this mortal life she may receive the blessed joys of heaven. For I wish as much good," quoth she, "to her majesty's soul as to mine own.
Pàgina 178 - I will not pray with you, nor shall you pray with me ; neither will I say amen to your prayers, nor shall you to mine.
Pàgina 180 - I therefore think, in the way of charity, for my part to hinder the country from such a sin; and seeing it must needs be done, to cause as few to do it as might be; and that was the judge himself.
Pàgina 192 - The top of the slab is a pyramidal cross. The caption to the inscription consists of nine Chinese words, formed into a square ; and is thus translated : " This stone was erected to the honour and eternal memory of the Law of Light and Truth brought from Ta-cin, [ Judca, or Syria,] and promulgated in China.
Pàgina 174 - Margaret Clitherow, how say you yet ? Yesternight we passed you over without judgment, which we might have pronounced against you if we would ; we did it not, hoping you would be something more conformable, and put yourself on the country, for otherwise you must needs have the law. We see nothing why you should refuse; here be but small witness against you, and the country will consider your case." " Indeed," said she, " I think you have no witness against me but children, whom with an apple or...
Pàgina 175 - God be thanked, all that He shall send me shall be welcome ; I am not worthy of so good a death as this is : I have deserved death for mine offences to God, but not for anything that I am accused of.
Pàgina 175 - Alas ! will they kill my wife? Let them take all I have and save her, for she is the best wife in all England, and the best Catholic also.
Pàgina 166 - I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced : and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him as the manner is to grieve for the death of the first-born.

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