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Garlic for Pegasus, by Wilfred P. Schoenberg, S.J. 213 pp. Westminster, Md.: Newman Press. $3.50

This is the thrilling story of Benito de Goes, S.J., the sixteenth-century Portuguese soldier who joined the Jesuits and became a lay brother in India. He travelled on horseback, from Goa through the Khyber Pass in the Himalayas, passing Tibet, to establish contact with the great Jesuit missionary, Father Matteo Ricci, who had already penetrated into the heart of the Celestial Empire of China.

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Garlic for Pegasus, by Wilfred P. Schoenberg, S.J. 213 pp. Westminster, Md.: Newman Press. $3.50

This is the thrilling story of Benito de Goes, S.J., the sixteenth-century Portuguese soldier who joined the Jesuits and became a lay brother in India. He travelled on horseback, from Goa through the Khyber Pass in the Himalayas, passing Tibet, to establish contact with the great Jesuit missionary, Father Matteo Ricci, who had already penetrated into the heart of the Celestial Empire of China.