forebear

One imagines that the latest pope, a Jesuit, is familiar with the centuries of calumny that have been heaped upon his forebears.

Somewhere along the way, we have forgotten the lessons learned by our Victorian forebears.

For centuries, the forebears of men and women like Paul Peschkowsky were barred from citizenship and its rights.

In that somber room, he knew, had had place whatever was most worthy in the lives of his forebears.