Tea at Trianon: Little Audrey dies

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Little Audrey dies

The young girl in a comatose state, who became surrounded by what many claim to be miracles, has died. What I always found most compelling about this story was how her mother refused to institutionalize her, but took care of her at home. What a witness of love and heroism! Share

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Aww, how sad for us that we have one less little blessing on this earth.

I have always thought that Linda, her mom, is the real saint--what an incredible pro-life witness in this day and age to care for a child that most would have abandoned, or worse. And the literal miracles that comes from this--so inspiring to us all. As you say, she has great heroic virtue!

~Georgette; April 16, 2007 at 5:34:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, Georgette, I agree. It was a powerful witness.; April 16, 2007 at 3:57:00 PM EDT