A fine page in the history of missions was written by the Jesuita in China in the 17th. century. Their scientific attainments, and especially their" Knowledge astronomy, caused them to. be received with great favour at the Imperil Court, and they were even Todged in the royal palace. Three famous Fathers, Matteo Ricsi, Adam Schall, and Ferdinand" Verbiest, were in turn directors of the observatory at Peking, and Father Schall, having reformed the Chines calendar, was rewarded by' diploma from the Emperor Yung appointing him "master of the cal ial mysteries," and adding: "What greater or! more glorious thing than this could possibly befall thee? dedicated to "mis. atic proofs of what devoted men in every order have suffered for their faith {rota early times to the present day, for tone of the last martyrs was Pare Julien Maris de Bagnols, a Capuchin monk done to death by the Gallas in East Africa in 1919. This section also contains the habit and cowl of St. Francis, the sandals worn by him after receiving the stigmata, and the gown removed from his'worn body after his death.
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