title: In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome De Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa
author: Bartolome De Las Casas
description: <DIV><P>&quot;A superb vindication of an oppressed people. . . . The message shines through and comes ringing down the centuries.&quot;<BR /> &mdash;<I>New York Review of Books</I></P><P>&quot;Time and again Las Casas surprises by his freshness, his boldness, his startling modernity.&quot;<BR /> &mdash;<I>Journal of Modern History</I></P><P>&quot;Poole&#39;s commentary does much to clarify obscure points in the text.&quot;<BR /> &mdash;<I>Catholic Historical Review</I></P></DIV>
zlib_text: THE MARTYROLOGY OF THE SACRED
  ORDER OF FRIARS PREACHERS
  
  THE MARTYROLOGY
  OF
  THE SACRED ORDER
  OF
  FRIARS PREACHERS
  Translated by
  Rev. W. R. Bonniwell, O.P.
  THE NEWMAN PRESS   +    WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND
  1955 [1998]
  
  Nihil obstat: 
  FRANCIS N. WENDELL, 0. P.
  FERDINAND N. GEORGES, 0. P.
  Censores Librorum
  Imprimatur: 
  MOST REV. T. S. MCDERMOTT, 0. P.
  Vicar General of the Order of Preachers
  November 12, 1954
  Copyright, (c) 1955, by the NEWMAN PRESS
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-8660
  Printed in the United States of America
  [This electronic edition: 1998]
  
  TO OUR BELOVED FATHERS, BROTHERS, AND SISTERS
  OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS PREACHERS,
  WE
  FATHER TERENCE STEPHEN MCDERMOTT
  MASTER OF SACRED THEOLOGY
  AND THE HUMBLE VICAR GENERAL AND SERVANT
  OF THE ENTIRE ORDER OF FRIARS PREACHERS
  GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS:
  With the rapid growth of the liturgical movement especially in the last
  quarter of a century, there has been an increasing volume of requests from
  Dominican Sisters and Lay Tertiaries f