Tea at Trianon: Miraculous Infant of Beaune

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

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Miraculous Infant of Beaune

Terry has this post about the Carmelite nun of Beaune who prayed for the queen of France to have a child. Anne of Austria had been married to Louis XIII for over twenty-three years but they were childless. (And people were upset that Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were childless after only seven years.) Venerable Sr. Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament prayed to the Child Jesus for a baby for the royal pair.

Sr. Margaret had a revelation in prayer: she affirmed that the Queen was going to have a son, and accurately predicted the date of birth of the future Louis XIV. The royal family expressed their gratitude to Carmel.

This must be what Our Lord referred to when He told St. Margaret Mary in 1689 concerning Louis XIV:

MAKE KNOWN TO THE ELDEST SON OF MY HEART THAT AS HIS TEMPORAL BIRTH WAS OBTAINED THROUGH DEVOTION TO THE MERITS OF MY HOLY CHILDHOOD, IN THE SAME MANNER HE WILL OBTAIN HIS BIRTH OF GRACE AND ETERNAL GLORY BY THE CONSECRATION THAT HE WILL MAKE OF HIMSELF TO MY ADORABLE HEART.
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