Tea at Trianon: Pray for us!

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

Friday, July 17, 2015

Pray for us!

"Then shall the saints shine like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father." ~ (Mt 13:43).

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4 comments:

Dymphna said...: Does the Roman Catholic Church accept Orthodox canonizations?; July 17, 2013 at 9:55:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: I don't think so. However, we can certainly admire their heroic virtues.; July 17, 2013 at 10:36:00 AM EDT
Flambeaux said...: They have not been formally canonized by Rome, but neither have Louis & Marie.

That doesn't stop us from privately cultivating devotion.

Once upon a time it was the popular cult that led to the process of canonization. We have it reversed now, to our detriment as is being demonstrated with the rush to canonization of certain recent popes.; July 17, 2013 at 10:45:00 AM EDT
Unknown said...: In Orthodoxy, it is still done in a grassroots manner. Saints are venerated locally before being Glorified by the Church. The Orthodox Church being less legalistic and precise than the Roman Catholic Church, there aren't specific requirements, e.g. a certain number of miracles or incorruption, though if those things are present, it helps the case. Glorification itself is considered a recognition of what already exists, i.e. the Church doesn't "make" a person a saint by canonization/glorifcation. The person IS a saint, and the Church can only officially recognize what already is. Holy Royal Passion-bearers, pray for us!; July 17, 2015 at 2:25:00 PM EDT