REMARKABLE CONVERSIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

New Zealand Tablet, 27 February 1919, Page 29

REMARKABLE CONVERSIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Father Monsaert, chaplain to the Belgian Army, tells how he gave the crucifix to a dying rabbi. While Father Monsaert and the rabbi were rushing from one end of the trench to the other, administering to the wounded, the rabbi was mortally wounded. At the time he was near Father Mopgp-ert. The latter was attending a soldier. Another soldier rushed to the rabbi’s side to carry him back for medical attention. As he was about to pick him up, the rabbi asked for Father Monsaert, who rushed to his side and knelt down. As he did, the rabbi said: “Father, hand me your crucifix!” and, as it was placed in his hands, he whispered; “Father, I now die happy.” Before he could utter another sound, his soul had departed. A few moments later, when soldiers were being killed and wounded in large numbers Father Monsaert was called upon to comfort many. An English colonel looked on with his hat in his hand. Father Monsaert was about to depart, when the colonel said : “There is another here, Father. This time, a well man. I mean myself. After what I have seen, that is the faith for me. I wish to become a Catholic.” And he didthere on the battlefield. —The lAgourian.