Word: friesland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young child in one of the cloisters of southern Wessex. He had shown great capacity for study, but his religious nature soon drove him to wider and nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion. From Rome under papal protection he went to his work...