No Longer Can They Say: "Rise and Be Free"
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The same year the Magna Carta was signed and just when news arrived that tens of thousands of children crusaders who set out for the Holy Land were captured and sold into slavery, St. Dominic was in Rome to seek authorization for his new order which was to be lived through simplicity and love. The Pope gave him a tour of the Vatican’s magnificent palaces and most coveted treasures. Remarking how Peter and John, in the Acts of the Apostles, saw a lame beggar asking for alms and said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, stand up and walk;” the Pope boasted: “Peter can no longer say, ‘Silver and…
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No Longer Can They Say: "Rise and Be Free"
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