The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-29
ROME CASHING IN
ON RED CROSS BADGE
Shrewd Old Gamesters Play the
Red Cross to Get Dollars
for Popery

for Popery
Jesuitical Rome goes to ex-
tremes in the attempt to take
credit for the Red Cross. She
would like for the people to be-
come imbued with the idea that
she founded it. Of course she
offers no reason for her long pc
rlod of lax activity between the
time she authorized a red cross
as a badge and the time the Red
Cross organization came into
being. Nor does she say any
thing about her continued oppo-
sition to that organization
throughout its existence until
the world war made it the most
popular organization before the
people and forced her onto the
band wagon.
1t is since that time that she
has been printing articles about
the Origin of the Red Cross"
One of these articles was recent
ly printed in the Youngstown
Daily Vindicator and was used
by Knights of Columbus in the
k. of c. drive for war funds in
his endeavor to persuade those
who did not wish to contribute
that Rome had a corner on
everything good and that one
mans statement that Rome at
one time opposed the Red Cross
was false.
We are going to reprint the
article just to show you how
these Jesuits go about their
work. Note that there is not a
word in it which claims that
Rome organized the Red Cross.
1t merely claims that Rome is
the originator of a papal badge
for a certain Romish order and
this badge is red cross. There
is nothing peculiar about a
cross as papal badge and neith-
| er is there any significance or
) connection between the nom
Romanized Red Cross and
. Rome's adoption of a cross col
ored red to distinguish one GER
tain order. 1t has nothing what
ever to do with the Red Cross
! organization and the Jesuitical
, attempts to so apply it should
be exposed for just what they
are. Here is how Rome seeks
to cash in on the popularity Of
the Red Cross organization:
; Origin of the Red Cross
The red cross as a badge of service
for suffering humanity dates back
more than three hundred years, writes
( correspondent to the EUening Post,
and its origin must be of interest at
this time when it has expanded as a
society into a multitude that minis
ters to the physical needs of our army
and navy here and abroad.
2 Camillus de Lellis was born in the
} kingdom of Naples in 1850. After
, serving in the Venetian army, he went
to the hospital of San Giacomo in
|, Rome with an affection of the leg.
l There he was so much impressed by
the horrors and filth Of what was lit
{ tie better than a pesthouse that he
= resolved to devote his life to suffering
humanity, ITO care for the plague
: stricken and to nurse the sick in their
own homes" At thirty-two he was
!. ordained a priest, and set about
8 founding a religious order ITO serve
: the sick"
"They shall wear a red cross upon
!, their breasts" said Camillus, ito re-
q mind them of the suffering Of our
: Lord Christ. This will give them
strength and encouragement" Pope
q Sixtus V confirmed the congregation
in 1886, granting them in the brief a
: special permission to wear "the Red
!, Cross" This same red cross is the
e badge of service today, worn by every
h Catholic religious order that takes
6 care, of the sick, in ever part of the
. world. This red cross has been blessed
J in the leper settlements Of Molokai
. end Madagascar; in the cholera hos
pitals of India and the pestilence-
stricken lands of the Far East, as
we'll as on the bdttlefelds of France.
T. In the calendar st. Camilus' day
q falls upon the 18th Of July, and at
d his special mass these words are
N chanted: "Greater love hath no man
y than this, that a man lay down his
n life for his friends"