Others,  indeed,  had  been  associated  with  the  Jesuits,  and  not  in
China  only,  in  that  famous  apostolate  which  lasted  more  than
two  hundred  years,  which  embraced  every  region  of  the  world,
and  added  to  the  Church  more  souls  than  the  enemy  had  snatch-
ed from  her  by  the  great  catastrophe  of  the  sixteenth  century.
But  if  the  children  of  St.  Francis,  St.  Dominic,  and  St.  Vincent
have  everywhere  emulated  the  piety,  zeal,  and  valor  of  the  sons
of  St.  Ignatius,  it  is  to  the  latter  that  men  have  attributed,  in


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