The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH. 43If we seek for Apostles,we find them conspicuouslyamong the Bishops of Germany, who are now displaying in prison and in exile a serene heroismworthy of Peter and Paul.Every year records the tortures of Catholic Missionerswho die Martyrs to the faith in China, Corea,and other Pagan countries.Among her confessorsare numbered those devotedpriests who, abandoning home and family ties, annually go forth to preach the Gospel in foreignlauds. Their worldly possessionsare often confinedto a few books of devotion and their modest apparel.And who is a stranger to her consecrated virgin*,those sisters of various Orders who in every largecity of Christendom are daily reclaiming degradedwomen from a life of shame, and bringing them backto the sweet influences of religion who snatch the;abandoned offspring of sin from temporal and spiritual death, and make them pious and useful members of society, becoming more than mothers tothem ;who rescue children from ignorance, and instil into their minds the knowledge and love of God.We can point to numberless saints also among thelaity.I dare assert, that in almost every congregation in the Catholic world, men and women are to befound who exhibit a fervent piety and a zeal lorreligion which render them worthy of being namedafter the Annas, the Aquilas, and the Priscillas ofthe New Testament. Theyattract not indeed theadmiration of the public,because true piety is unos-