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Excerpt from The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. 47: January, 1922 A brilliant course of studies at the University of Freiburg - im Breisgau, where he was called the Christian philosopher and was early appointed a professor by a very exceptional favor, aecom panied his preparation for the legal profession, to which he was drawn by a desire to devote himself to the advocacy of poor suitors at a time when justice was unworthily trodden underfoot to the injury of the weak and poor, resolving to constitute himself the defender of the oppressed. He not only distinguished himself by his attainments in the study of philosophy and law, ultimately graduating as doctor in atroa-ue jurc, but by his equally assiduous practice of all the Christian virtues. A most brilliant career seemed to be before him, said an eminent fellow-student, Gaspard Kleckler; the rector declared that he had not his equal. Unlike most students, thrown upon their own resources and free to follow their own inclinations, he led a very mortified life. Baron Stotzingen, one of those who gave evidence at the process for his; beatification, said: I have never seen, never perceived in all his; relations and in all his actions anything but a pious life devoted to God and worthy of being quoted as a model. At that epoch the Capuchins, whom he saw for the first time, exercised over the stu dents a gentle but firm influence by their austere lives; the order, notwithstanding the defection of some of its members, being then still in its first fervor. They went to Freiburg in response to the wishes of the citizens, although that city already possessed eight churches and seven monasteries. Four years later, in 1601, they had a convent there. 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.