(A.D. 1240.)
He was an Englishman, whom S. Peter Nolasco received into his Order at
Barcelona. He made two journeys among the Moors for the ransoming of
captives, in 1240. The first was to Murcia, in which he purchased the
liberty of ninety-eight slaves; the second to Algiers, in which he
redeemed eighty-seven, but remained himself a hostage for the full
payment of the money. He boldly preached Christ to the Mahometans, and
baptised several, for which he was cruelly tortured, scourged, cut and
mangled, at length fastened to a cross, and was thereon stabbed and
quartered alive in the same year, 1240.
[Illustration: S. PETER NOLASCO, FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF OUR LADY OF
MERCY
FOR THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES.
From Cahier.
Jan. 31.]