The Messenger of the Sacred Heart, With Supplement, Vol. 32

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Excerpt from The Messenger of the Sacred Heart, With Supplement, Vol. 32: A Magazine of the Literature of Catholic Devotion, January-December, 1897The story goes back to the Crucifixion as all stories Of holiness must, either open ly or by implication. It tells us that the centurion, who exclaimed at the foot of the Cross Truly this is the Son of God, went home when his legion was disbanded. And where was his home do you think? Where else but in the Island Of Saints. Why should it not be so The soldiers who were Christ's executioners, we are told belonged to the Spanish legion. And why should there not be among those conscripts of the Celtiberian Peninsula, one who was a genuine Celt. The race even then seemed to be ubiqui tous. When he found himself among his people, religious apparently from the beginning, he wept so copiously and so often in describing the harrowing scenes of the Crucifixion, that his tears caused bright ¿owers of every virtue to spring up all over theland. The thought is like that Of Fra Angelico, who, in his picture of Calvary, makes the hard rock on which the Cross is planted bloom with ¿owers of every hue. If the centurion 's tears did not produce such a result, at least the tender love which the Irish peo ple always cherished for the passion of Christ could have done so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.