Friday, February 12, 2010

Light Of The Laughter And Sometimes Of The Kicks And Cuffs

He was, therefore, sent to Persia, although he was then over sixty years old; so to Persia he went, and we find him studying the language on his way thither, and, when travelling through the streets of Ispahan,
making a fool of himself in trying to stammer out the few words he had learned, but always making light of the laughter and sometimes of the kicks and cuffs and even threats of death that he received.
He was planning new missionary posts in Georgia and Tatary when death called him to his reward. But he had already won the admiration of Ispahan, and the city never saw a costlier funeral than the one which, on November 7, 1660, conveyed to the grave the mortal remains of the glorious Alexandre de Rhodes, S.J..

Link (here) to this portion of book entitled, The Jesuits by
Fr. Thomas Joseph Campbell, S.J.

Colored engraving of Ispahan, Persia dated 1685

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