Short Jesuit Poems

He wanted to spend a life of chastity             
so off he went to a Jesuit seminary                    
till he saw pretty damsels during communion       
and out the window flew his cherished vocation!...

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He was executed in London
for his catholic faith.
Priest murdered
“in the majesty of the law”

in a treacherous country.
Is this your tolerance,
making judgments
on human conscience.

“After ordination he wandered from place to place
to reduce souls which went astray
and were in error as to the knowledge
of the Catholic Church”.

In this whirl of persecution,
another Jesuit priest was murdered.
All his guilt,
was being a catholic priest....

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He was raised Protestant –
later, upon studies,
he converted to Catholicism
and became a Jesuit 

as is current pope Francis.
He labored with zeal
after ordination,
proclaiming true religion to all Nations.

With six other priests he was arraigned 
on the charge of high treason
and condemned to death by an English court.
He was subjected to inhuman tortures and executed.

In prison, he converted
many fellow prisoners,
imprinting the cross of Christ
on their minds....

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