Gentle Heart of Mary, be my refuge.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
St. Joseph, patron of Belgium, pray for us.
St. Hadelin, patron of the parish, pray for us.
Sainte Barbe, patroness of kindly death, pray for us.
After reading such ghastly accounts, many of them written by German
eyewitnesses, and knowing that similar tales were published widely in
the German newspapers, it is difficult to read with patience such words
as these:
"The German Army (in which I of course include the Navy) is to-day the
greatest institute for moral education in the world."
"The German soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined, and have never
so much as hurt a hair of a single innocent human being." Houston
Stewart Chamberlain, in _Kriegsaufsätze_, "War Essays", 1914.
"We see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defencelessness
of woman and child." Prof. G. Roethe, in _Deutsche Reden in Schwerer
Zeit_, "German Speeches in Difficult Days."