Excerpt from Adventures Perilous: Being the Story of That Faithful and Courageous Priest of God, Father John Gerard, S. J., Who, After a Life of Adventure and Many Hairbreadth Escapes, Came at Length Into a Place of Peace Father John Gerard didn't die a martyr still he was hanged for hours by the wrists, in the grinding agony of those iron gauntlets, till the sweat poured from his limbs, and the very jailers wept. (and yet, over those hands and wrists, too swollen now to pass through coat-sleeves, next day, again and yet ...
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Excerpt from Adventures Perilous: Being the Story of That Faithful and Courageous Priest of God, Father John Gerard, S. J., Who, After a Life of Adventure and Many Hairbreadth Escapes, Came at Length Into a Place of Peace Father John Gerard didn't die a martyr still he was hanged for hours by the wrists, in the grinding agony of those iron gauntlets, till the sweat poured from his limbs, and the very jailers wept. (and yet, over those hands and wrists, too swollen now to pass through coat-sleeves, next day, again and yet again, those same iron gauntlets were rammed and he was left hanging by them.) And through it all, and through the desperate mood that came upon him with it, he still could pray and jest and answer boldly and shrewdly, and think tenderly for others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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