But the Jesuits were not loved: not one
of them was the private secretary to the king.
Consequently, the Catholic judges in the
Parliament were sternly impartial, and the
Marseilles merchants won their case against
the Jesuits.
When they were made to produce their
secret papers in court, their infernal oath
came out. for the first time.
This devilish and treasonable oath was pub
lished by Lippincott Grambo & Co., Philadel
phia, in 1855. in the book entitled “The Sons
of the Sires.”
It is found on pages 192 and 193.
Did Joseph Patrick Tumulty take that
oath, when he became a Jesuit?
If so. he was well prepared to take the
fourth degree oath of the Knights of Colum
bus ?
So universal was the astonishment and in
dignation, among the Catholics, that Catholic
France abolished the order, in France.
The following is the oath brought out in
that celebrated trial:
“I, , now, in the presence of
Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the
blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St.
