Tea at Trianon: Sister Lucia Was Not an Imposter

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

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Sister Lucia Was Not an Imposter

Thanks to my friend Christine Niles for clearing up the silly rumors about Sr. Lucia being assassinated and replaced with an imposter. The only thing worse than a stupid liberal is a stupid conservative. Anyone on social media who is going to spread the ridiculous nonsense about the “fake Sr Lucia” please unfriend me right now. Now. I mean it. I just blocked a long time Facebook friend for perpetuating such stupidity. It is such antics that make so-called “traditional” Catholics look crazy. Plus it is a terrible calumny against the Discalced Carmelite Nuns with whom Sr. Lucia of the Immaculate Heart of Mary lived. I was in a Carmelite monastery for five years and the nuns there knew all the news of the Church and especially all the news of the Order. There is an amazing grapevine between the monasteries; they are very much in touch with each other. And it was long before social media. If anything like that had happened it would have leaked out and the nuns would have known about it. Believe me.

People who wonder about it please watch HERE.