Today Spring Bank keeps the Feast of Blessed Charles of Austria, whose intercession we have invoked each week at Benediction for several years. His biography from the Vatican website gives a moving portrait of a man who saw peace and the welfare of his people to be the first duty of a Christian king:Check out the whole post at Sub Tuum
I am very happy to hear our Cistercians have a devotion to Blessed Charles. The last king of Christendom is certainly one of the finest.
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| The Blessed Emperor hears Mass (in the old Roman rite) before attempting to regain his throne in Hungary in 1919 |
"From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring, renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king!"
(The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien, Roman Catholic author)
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