Bassett agreed, and paid a visit to Judge, who by now was married to a free
African American sailor named John Staines and already had the first of three children by him.
St. John Paul II who forgave the man who shot and wounded him,
and Gladys Staines, the Australian missionary who forgave the killers of her husband
and two young sons in India in 1999, he says, are examples of this love and forgiveness.