WE WAGE WAR ON DIVINE PRINCIPLES
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The names of the priests and monks of the diocese of Malines, who, to my knowledge, were put to death by the German troops, are as follows: Dupierreux, of the Company of Jesus; Brother Sebastien Allard, of the Society of St. Joseph; Brother Candide, of the Society of the Brothers of Our Lady of Pity; Father Vincent, Conventual Carette, a professor; Lombaerts, Goris de Clerck; Dergent, Wouters, Van Bladel, curés.
At Christmas time I was not perfectly certain what had been the fate of the Curé of Hérent. Since then his dead body has been discovered at Louvain and identified.
From a letter from Cardinal Mercier, to The Kreischef of District of Malines. December, 1914.
The Cathedral of Rheims has many companions in distress. The German army, when it invaded the north of France, destroyed, totally or partially, by bombardment or incendiarism, churches and chapels at Albert, Serres, Vieille-Capelle, Etavigny, Soissons, Hébuterne, Ribécourt, Suippes, Montceau, Barcy, Revigny, Souain, Maurupt, Berry-au-Bac, Mandray, Heiltz-le-Maurupt, Sermaize-les-Bains, Doncières, etc.
From “Is War Civilization?” By Prof. Christophe Nyrop, University of Copenhagen.
