Jesus asked God to "forgive them, for they know not what they do."
what they were doing was, killing the son of God!!!!!!
it's a shame that this man killed, but he chose to go where Christians and Jews are hated.
according to the letter, he saw it coming. why put your momma through that ?
once again, he saw it coming. did he think ALL martyrs got 70 virgins ?
he should have left on the next camel out of there.
I feel for his momma.
The monastery had been there for many, many years.
"...they found the location at Tib-Hirine, 'the gardens', a nineteenth-century English colonial farm. Seven kilometers south of Médéa and at 1100 meters altitude, it commands a magnificent view. In 1938, after four years of hard work, the small group of five pioneers had doubled in number. Some monks, including some survivors from Staouëli, came from Aiguebelle to strengthen the community. During the 1939 war, the community grew to twenty persons. Several monks were mobilized but the monastery was safe. The immediate post-war years saw expansion in numbers and in buildings. The community reached the number of thirty-five persons, including a living link with the past in the person of Fr. Francis d'Assise, who had been a novice at Staouëli and had returned to lay life when the monastery closed in 1904. This progress peaked in the year 1952 when Our Lady of Atlas was raised to the full status of an abbey."
The Catholic monks there weren't interested in martyrdom, "70 virgins", or war.
