It was ten below zero outdoors, but inside the College of the Sacred Heart in the little manufacturing town of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec one night last week a fire blazed in the furnace, students and priests were tucked snugly in their beds. On the ground floor slept Brother Lucius, head of the school, most of the 31 priests and five servants. In dormitories on the fourth floor and in the attic above it were 85 boys (aged 9 to 20) and a few priests. At 1 o'clock Watchman Marcel Quesnel, 68, sleepily made his...
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