Touched Their Hearts

Japanese Martyrs

“I tell you the truth - for a long, long time these farmers have worked like horses and cattle; and like horses and cattle they have died. The reason our religion has penetrated this territory like water flowing into dry earth is that it has given to this group of people a human warmth they never previously knew. For the first time they have met men who treated them like human beings. It was the human kindness and charity of the fathers that touched their hearts.”

-Shusaku Endo, Silence

Shields of Valiant Men

 "Virgo potens, * sicut turris David: mille clípei pendent ex ea, omnis armatúra fórtium."

"A virgin most mighty, * like the tower of David, whereon there hung a thousand bucklers, all the shields of valiant men."

-Second Antiphon, First Vespers of Our Lady of the Rosary

Veritas

"So we are [to be] excommunicated by Modernists, by people who have been condemned by previous popes.  So what can that really do?  We are condemned by men who are themselves condemned."

-Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre