Excerpt from Tipperary's Gift to China: Three Apostolic Lives (1863-1898) Thirty years ago, * When the shadow of a terrible war had not yet darkened the Third Empire, and the fair land of France was still free from the horrors of bitter strife, Tien-tsin came suddenly before the World as the scene of a most awful massacre, by Chinese pagan rabble, of ten daughters of St. Vincent de Paul. The one thought on earth of these saintly and charitable souls, was their mission to spread the knowledge of the true faith among millions of the Yellow race in that inexpressibly strange Empire Which now is in a condition of the most complete anarchy and uproar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.