Hermann the Cripple (‘Pain is not Unhappiness’) 1013-1054

C. C. Martindale (1879-1963) became a Catholic on leaving Harrow and entered the Society of Jesus. Later, at Oxford, he took the highest classical honors. Ordained a priest in 1911, he wrote ceaselessly, even while a prisoner of the Nazis in Denmark. Few English writers hae done so much as he in rebuilding Catholic apologetics around the doctrine of the Mystical Body. Among his works is The Life of Robert Hugh Benson, another great Catholic priest-writer. In this selection from his works, he sketches the remarkable life of a medieval saint. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]

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