I looked at him as if expecting to find that he was turned into a brute beast, for it was a den for a wild animal, not a chamber for a Christian man, in a country teeming with Christ's ministers, and where the holy Apostolic Catholic religion is the only one permitted to be professed.
Garibaldi describes the horrific conditions of a prison cell, condemning it as fit only for an animal, not a human, despite the country's professed Christian faith.
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