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 5S0 INTELLECT AND FAITH. life of incessant activity, now stimulating popes and kings to re- newed crusades, or to found colleges of the Oriental tongues to aid in missionary labors, now pouring forth volume after volume with incredible fecundity, now disputing and teaching against Averrhoism at Montpellier, Paris, and elsewhere, and now ventur- ing himself among the infidel to spread among them the light of Christianity. In any one of these fields of action his labors would seem enough to exhaust the energies of an ordinarv man. TThile on his way. in 1311, to the Council of Yienne. with projects for founding schools of Oriental tongues, for uniting in one all the military Orders, for a holy war against the infidel, for suppressing Averrhoism, and for teaching his art in all universities, he summed up his life : " I was married and a father, sufficiently rich, worldly, and licentious. For the honor of God, for the public weal, and for the advancement of the faith I abandoned all. I learned Arabic, and I have been repeatedly among the Saracens to preach to them, where I have been beaten and imprisoned. For forty-five years I have labored to excite the rulers of the Church and the princes of Christendom for the public good. Xow I am old, I am poor, and I still have the same purpose, which, with the help of God, I will retain till I die." At Yienne his only success was in obtaining a decree founding schools of Hebrew, Arabic, and Chal- dee in the papal court and in the Universities of Paris, Oxford, Bologna, and Salamanca. Thence he went, for the second time, to Algiers, where, at Bugia, he made many converts, until thrown into prison and starved ; then he was released and ordered out of the country, but continued proselyting. With wonderful forbear- ance the Moors contented themselves with placing him on board a ship bound for Genoa, and warning him not to return. Ship- wrecked in sight of land, he saved his life by swimming, but lost his books. Determined to win the palm of martydom, in August, 1314, he again embarked at Palma for Bugia. Promptly recog- nized, he was thrown into jail, beaten, and starved ; but in prison he continued to preach to his fellow-captives, until the Moors, finding him unconquerable, took him out, June 30, 1315, and stoned him. Some Genoese merchants about to sail carried his yet breathing body on board their ship and laid their course for Genoa, but to their surprise found themselves at the entrance of the port of Palma. In vain they endeavored to leave the spot till, recognizing