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do him homage. We are told, and no doubt with 

 truth, that these honors were unwelcome to the 

 modest and single-hearted missionary, who thought 

 only of returning to his work of converting the 

 Indians. A priest 'v\dth any deformity of body is 

 debarred from saying mass. The teeth and knives 

 of the Iroquois bad inflicted an injury worse than 

 the torturers imagined, for they had robbed Jogues 

 of the privilege which was the chief consolation of 

 his life; but the Pope, by a special dispensation, 

 restored it to him, and with the opening spring he 

 sailed again for Canada. 



