One Hundred Years of Solitude

at the hardness of the
inhabitants of Macondo, who
were prospering in the midst
of scandal, subject to the
natural law, without baptizing
their children or sanctifying
their festivals. Thinking that
no land needed the seed of
God so much, he decided to
stay on for another week to
Christianize both circumcised
and gentile, legalize
concubinage, and give the
sacraments to the dying. But