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New Zealand Tablet, 31 January 1918, Page 38

;." Maison Caree (Square House) is the mother house of the White': Fathers,: and "j is ; located in the suburbs of: Algiers, North Africa (says The Foreign Missions). It owes its ' name • to a very large ; Arab house ■of that type, - which was used as a fortress during the Algerian wars between the' French and the Arabs (1830). '\ : ' 7 ~\ .^f« : | One day forty French soldiers',. in command of a lieutenant, had been captured in it by an Arab force. It was a merciless war, and the officer ordered • that they be shot. They were : already against the wall awaiting death when the Arab chieftain told: them, through an interpreter, a renegade, ' that if they would abjure their religion and accept the Mussulman creed they would be spared. V - "What do you think, sergeant?" said the French officer. / r . - "They can do what they please, but I will never renounce the Christian faith." ~ "Nor I," said the lieutenant. ' "Nor I," said all the men to the last.- ~ , The last one had scarcely said "Nor I," than the Arab chief gave a "command, and a moment later the forty men were lying dead. The Church counted forty more heroes in her martyrology. ...■,., Forty years later Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers, chose that spot to build the mother house of the Society of the White Fathers he had just founded. It was indeed the proper place for a school of apostolate and martyrdom.