Bishop Francis X. Ford. A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
- Date: December 08, 1996
- Level: High School, 11th grade
- Grade: A
- Length: 3 pages (639 words)
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A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
Bishop Francis X. Ford was a well educated, enormously gentle man, that was kicked, beaten, insulted, and surrounded by hatred. All this because of one mans beliefs. He was born in Brooklyn in 1892. He was the founder of the Maryknoll Missionaries and was the first bishop of Kwantung, China. He was killed in the late 1950's in China, he was charged with anti-Communist, counterrevolutionary, and espionage activities, his real 'crime' was for being a Christian and a foreigner.
During his life Bishop Ford illustrated the cardinal virtue of fortitude, which is the ability to overcome fear in order to pursue ...
... that stood out to me more than any of the quotes on the wall it is..........
COURAGE
'Don't follow where the path may lead ......go instead where there is no path and leave a trail'.
When Bishop was young he developed his own idealism. While a student in Cathedral college in New York he took an interest in the Christian Foreign Mission Society, this society was new and had few members. At the age of 20, he became the first seminarian of
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