Cardinals Respond to Traditiones Custodes by Consecrating Priests in Immemorial Mass of All Ages

Cardinal Müller ordained a monk from Le Barroux as a priest in the traditional rite.

[katholisches] Two well-known cardinals have offered the priestly ordination in the Immemorial Mass of All Ages during these months.  Cardinal George Pell consecrated two Benedictines from Nursia and Cardinal Gerhard Müller one Benedictine from Le Barroux.  Both consecrations are a signal to want to defend the Rite and the communities associated with it against the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes.  A new website also provides up-to-date information on the effects of Traditionis Custodes on the dioceses.  An initial balance can be drawn.

Cardinal George Pell, innocent [?, not exactly], sprung from an Australian prison after thirteen months, ordained Dom Augustine Wilmeth of South Carolina and Dom Bernard Baca of Louisiana as priests in September.  Both belong to the traditional Benedictine monastery of Nursia in Italy, which was founded in 2000.

 Cardinal George Pell with the two monks of Nursia whom he ordained priests

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg and Prefect of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was dismissed "in a minute" by Pope Francis in 2017, consecrated a monk of the ancient Benedictine abbey of Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux in Vaucluse, France, founded in 1978 by Dom Gérard Calvet.  The abbey is currently headed by Dom Louis-Marie de Geyer d'Orth.

The consecration took place a few days before the publication of Traditionis Custodes.  Cardinal Müller bluntly criticized the motu proprio three days after it appeared in a comment for the US publication The Catholic Thing:

 “Without the slightest empathy, one ignores the religious feelings of the - often also young people - participants in the masses according to the Missal of John XXIII.  (1962).  Instead of taking in the smell of the sheep, the shepherd hits them vigorously with his staff.  It also seems simply unjust to abolish the celebrations of the 'old' rite just because it attracts some problematic people: abusus non tollit usum. "

The cardinal went even further and contradicted the papal interpretation of the axiom lex orandi - lex credendi (rule of prayer - rule of faith) as the uniformity of the liturgical rite.  With this axiom, the Church was concerned with the substance of the sacraments, but not with the liturgical rite, of which there were several in the time of the Church Fathers.

Above all, the behavior of Francis towards the "traditionalists", who in the missal of Paul VI.  refuses to measure up to his determination to put an end to the innumerable “progressive” liturgical abuses, often blasphemous.  The German cardinal explicitly mentioned the "paganization of the Catholic liturgy".  A "mythologization of nature, the deification of the environment and the climate as well as the spectacle of the Pachamama" are probably "rather counterproductive for the restoration and renewal of a dignified and orthodox liturgy that reflects the fullness of the Catholic faith."

The ordinations by the two cardinals Pell and Müller in the Traditional Rite can be seen as a strong symbol in defense of the Immemorial Mass and the communities associated with it.

The balance sheet for the first three months since TraditionisCustodes came into force is nevertheless sobering.  In the countries where the traditional Rite is most firmly anchored, the bishops have largely kept quiet.  This is not the case everywhere.  The traditional rite was banned in 25 dioceses and partially banned or restricted in a further 33 dioceses.

A specially set up website Traditioniscustodes.info publishes the respective decisions in the dioceses, as far as they exist, with reference to the source.  So far there have been reports from 238 dioceses.  Accordingly, Traditionis Custodes has made the situation worse in every fourth diocese.

A new website uses the traffic light system to show the consequences of Traditionis Custodes in the dioceses

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: InfoVaticana

Trans: Tancred vekeon99@hotmail.com

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It could've been worse if he hadn't been "vaccinated."

 Yiddish speaker Colin Kernel Powell passes from complications of Covid-1984.

Powell appears with Aunt Bee to diss Donald Trump on CNN

It's quite fun watching the media scramble to explain how rare it is for people to die of Covid if they're "fully vaccinated."   Meanwhile, Portugal and Sweden are banning Israeli passport holders (among the world's most vaccinated) because they're spreading Kung Flu.   This is about anti-Semitism as much as the Southwest Airlines sickout was about weather.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/fully-vaccinated-die

Evil Tranny Wants to Occupy and Rename Notre Dame

“Paul” Preciado

Edit: it’s nothing short of hypocritical that this mentally deranged and degenerate person is expressing outrage about the victimization of children when he/she/it is a disciple of the notorious pederast, Michel Foucault. 

It wouldn’t be shocking if he were Jewish, now, would it?

My Google:

The “philosopher” evokes in particular his wish to see the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris be withdrawn from the Church ... Photo © CHINE NOUVELLE / SIPA

[Valeurs] On October 5, as reported in a previous article, the former vice-president of the Council of State, Jean-Marc Sauvé, published a report concerning child crime in the Church.  According to information from La Croix, the said document, ordered in 2018, highlights shocking figures as to the number of victims recorded between 1950 and 2020. A number which could rise, in France, to 330,000 people.  It is in this context that Paul B. Preciado, a Spanish writer and philosopher formerly named Beatriz Preciado, published an article in Mediapart on Tuesday, October 12.  There he/she/it developed in particular his/her/its wish to see the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris be withdrawn from the Church by the French State ... So that the space is transformed "into a center of reception and research feminist, queer, trans  and anti-racism and the fight against sexual violence ”.

 "Moral possession and symbolic domination"

According to him, this center could then be baptized "Our Lady of survivors of child crime".  Which, in his own words used in the pureplayer, is by no means "blasphemy", but rather "a revolution".  In the same article, Paul B. Preciado goes on to argue that "the process of bodily and cognitive emancipation which is taking place these days involves the deepening of the separation between Church and State".  For him, while it is true that the Church no longer owns all these buildings, "she retains moral possession and symbolic domination of spaces".  However, argues the philosopher, these should belong to citizens, as well as to "victims of ecclesiastical sexual violence".

 Towards "a process of impeachment of the Church"?

Also in Mediapart, the writer analyzes sexual violence as "a systemic practice of the ecclesiastical institution".  He then referred to a "Christian tradition lauded by the far right as the foundation of Aryan Europe", before shortly after criticizing "a tradition of masculinism, racism and sexual abuse of children and women".  And to conclude, in these terms, to summarize his way of thinking: "If sexual crime is not an accident, but the very architecture of the power of the ecclesiastical institution, then it is necessary to demand a process of  dismissal of the Church ”.

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Pushing back against the vax mandates

A very special thank you to the Patrick Coffin Show for this. 

 

Too many points to mention, but have you ever known a vaccine that you can get at CVS or Piggly-Wiggly, but your doctor won't give it to you?

Or. why is a Colorado hospital not allowing an unvaxxed kidney donor to give a life saving organ to an unvaxxed recipient?

Obedience training for Vaxxtards?

Capuchin Friars Take Out 5G Towers

 The two wanted to protect the population from the harmful effects of the 5G network, which a spokesman for the monastery considers a worthy motive.

Lyon (kath.net/LifeSiteNews/mk) Two Capuchin friars are said to have tried to light up two 5G antennas a few weeks ago near Lyon, France.  The first antenna was damaged, which even caused temporary disruptions at Orange, and on the second offense, the monks were arrested by the police.  They belong to the Capuchin monastery in Villié-Morgon, which is close to the SSPX and which also houses their former district superior, Father Régis de Cacqueray.

 The two monks were brought before the judge for "vandalism and attempted arson" and are now under judicial supervision until their criminal proceedings.  They defended themselves in court by saying that they wanted to protect the population from the harmful effects of the 5G network.  The local mayor described the matter as sad, especially since there is a chapel adjacent to one of the antennas.  The superior of the monastery was also “astonished and saddened”.  Another spokesman for the monastery called the act a youthful error and emphasized the worthy motives: "These waves are very harmful to human health, and they wanted to do something good for humanity."

 Many suspect that 5G could be harmful to health, and some scientists have also raised serious concerns about increased cancer risk and genetic damage.  The competent French authority recently said that there was no evidence of health impairments.

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Bishop Accepts Responsibility for Covering Up Sex Abuse — Bergoglio Won’t Accept Resignation

Hamburg / Rome.  The Archbishop of Hamburg, Stefan Heße, appeared in front of the cameras on March 18 with a serious expression and offered to resign.  A few hours earlier he had been incriminated by the expert Björn Gercke.  On behalf of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Gercke had investigated whether those responsible for the Archdiocese of Cologne had covered up the sexual abuse of children by priests in the past.

One of the people in charge who had been checked by Gercke was Heße, formerly head of personnel and then vicar general (head of administration) in Cologne.  The result: Gercke accused Heße of breaching duty eleven times.

Heße then declared: “I have to and want to accept the consequences from my actions at that time and ultimately also from the breaches of duty I am accused of.”  But that will not happen now: Because Pope Francis does not accept the resignation.  Hesse remains in office.

Pope: Mistakes are not intentional 

It is not as if the Pope doubts Gercke's research results.  No, he too sees “deficiencies in the organization and functioning of the Archbishop's General Vicariate as well as personal procedural errors from Hesse”.  However, the investigation did not show that these errors were "committed with the intention of covering up cases of sexual abuse".  So the Pope says: Hesse made mistakes - but it wasn't on purpose.

The effects of this decision on the Catholic Church in Germany are likely to be enormous.  Not only the reform movement “We are Church” is now wondering “why people in Church leadership services are then held accountable at all.” The canon lawyer Thomas Schüller criticizes: "This is a slap in the face for the victims of sexual violence, because they have to gain the impression again that no one will be held accountable for their misconduct."

The theologian Daniel Bogner speaks of the “unreasonable”: “The fateful signal is that the reason for the resignation is not regarded as so serious.” This prevents a public official from facing up to his responsibility and this through a publicly visible step such as  document a resignation.  "This is very bad news for a religious community in whose message the individual person and their conviction of conscience are very important."

The procedure is reminiscent of the decision on Cardinal Marx

The Pope's actions are reminiscent of his decision in June to also refuse the resignation of the Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx.  The two cases are different.  In contrast to Heße, Marx was not personally accused, he rather wanted to take on responsibility for the system, as it were.  Since Marx is seen by many German Catholics as an enlightener and innovator, the Pope's decision at the time could still be seen as support for a reform course.

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Bergoglio Appoints Bologna School Disciple as Master of Ceremonies

Don Diego Ravelli, the Pope's new master of ceremonies, with Francis.

(Rome) Next Sunday, Pope Francis will consecrate his previous master of ceremonies Guido Marini as bishop.  On August 29th, Marini was appointed Bishop of Tortona in Liguria by Francis.  The "most modern" of the previous Masters will be his successor.

Yesterday the Holy See announced the appointment of Marini's successor as the Pope's Master of Ceremonies.  Don Diego Giovanni Ravelli assumes this position.  Ravelli has been the ceremonial officer in the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Pope since 2006, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI.  He had already been called in by the then master of ceremonies Piero Marini as an auxiliary MC.  The appointment as ceremonial took place under the leadership of Piero Marini.  Ravelli is therefore also considered to be the “most modern” among the ceremonies.  What is meant is that he is closer to the style of his teacher Piero Marini, a Bugnini student.  This style is seen as “sober” and, above all, not associated with any attachment to liturgical tradition.  As early as 2017, Ravelli was under discussion as a possible successor to Guido Marini.  An appointment date has even been passed around, December 7th of that year.  Four years later, the time has come.

Don Ravelli comes from the Archdiocese of Milan.  He was ordained a priest in 1991 for the Priestly Association of Priests of the Crucified Jesus.  In 1998 he was called to the Apostolic Alms Administration.  His incardination in the suburbicarian diocese of Velletri-Segni should also fall during this time.  He also studied pedagogy at the Pontifical Salesian University.

He studied liturgical sciences at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo, where he received his doctorate in 2010.  In liturgical questions there is no getting around Sant’Anselmo under Pope Francis.

In 2013 he was appointed office manager of the Apostolic Alms Administration by Pope Francis.

Don Ravelli has been papal master of ceremonies since yesterday and is therefore also responsible for the papal choir of the Sistine Chapel.

In 2019, Pope Francis incorporated the choir, which organizes the papal liturgical celebrations musically, into the Office for the Pope's liturgical celebrations.

Also yesterday the Vatican diplomat Don Cristiano Antonietti, Nunciature Secretary who works in the General Affairs Department of the State Secretariat, was appointed Papal Ceremonial.  It takes up the space vacated by Ravelli's promotion.

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: VaticanMedia (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred@hotmail.com

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Jews Fear Columbus and Men Like Him

The Tomb of Saint Cristoforo in Seville

Edit: don’t be ashamed of the achievements of your ancestors just because a few outsiders who want you dead and your children enslaved want to disparage him like the demons they are.

Christopher Columbus was an intrepid man of action who bore Christ over the Atlantic to savage people enshrouded in the savagery of murder and darkness. Despite many setbacks his faith didn’t waver and he returned to his mission four times.  We owe him a great deal. 

There was a cause for canonization set up at Vatican I and the same people who want you dead objected to it then. Don’t let these small hats destroy your heritage and religion!

Photo:

https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2014/10/christopher-columbus-catholic-explorer.html

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Wildcat strike at low frills carrier?

If you've ever had the misfortune of riding on this airline, you got herded into the plane like cattle.   I don't think chartering a private jet is an option for these travelers.  What's going on here?   Their employees are well compensated and they've never experienced a work action, legal or illegal.  These pilots and co-pilots have their health scrutinized twice a year.   No pilot with a valid medical certificate has died of Covid.   The same can't be said of those who took the jab.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/take-off-time-for-solidarity/

It's gone universal

Let's go Brandon!

Speaking the language of Vaxxtards

https://sarahwestall.com/post-covid-19-injections-the-dead-dont-speak-but-those-with-crippling-injuries-issue-warnings/

Bergoglio is Ashamed About Sex Abuse Report

 Edit: why doesn’t he resign since he covered up sex abuse in Argentina and protects and promotes aberrosexual predators.

Once again, the report doesn’t get to the aberrosexual basis of all this, or the powerful elites of the cultural revolution of 1968 who reveled in and endorsed sexual abuse of children.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expressed sadness and shame on Wednesday in response to a report estimating that hundreds of thousands of children were abused in the Catholic Church in France over the past 70 years.

“This is a moment of shame,” Pope Francis saidduring his general audience on Oct. 6.

“To the victims, I wish to express my sadness and my pain for the traumas they have endured and my shame, our shame, my shame that for so long the Church has been incapable of putting this at the center of its concerns, assuring them of my prayers,” he said.

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Bergoglio Warmly Receives Baby Murdering Feminazi Pelosi

Edit: even the Communist America can see that Bergoglio is undercutting his subordinate’s denunciation of this gnarled old baby torturer in her district. Maybe ++Cordileone can oppose his alleged superior? 

[Evil Jesuit Mag] Pope Francis received Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in a private audience in the Vatican’s apostolic palace on the morning of Oct. 9. The Vatican announced this at midday, after the meeting had taken place.

Ms. Pelosi was accompanied in the audience with the pope by her husband, Paul Pelosi, and others, including Patrick Connell, the Charges d’Affaires of the United States Embassy to the Holy See. After the papal audience, she had conversations with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican secretary for relations with states.

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Pedo-Pieta?

 Edit: gives you an idea of what kind of demons are in charge of the Vatican. It shows an almost elderly muscular man (a Cardinal?) holding a youth with long hair. 

Google translate from Italian link to “Art Vibes”:

Between pain and meditation a new tale of JAGO's contemporaneity: the new sculptural installation is dedicated to the theme of the “Pietà”.

 by Art Vibes editorial staff

Picture: JAGO - Pietà, installation at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto, Rome.

Sixteen months of work in Naples, in the studio of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi, for a work that is not the simple re-proposition of the famous biblical episode, but a modern reworking of a moment of meditation and pain, in which the humanity has identified itself for centuries.

The last work of the sculptor JAGO is therefore dedicated to the theme of the "Pietà" and will be inaugurated on Friday 1 October 2021 at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome.

The installation, curated by Tommaso Zijno and organized together with the partners Studio Arte 15, FERCAM Fine Art and P.L.  Ferrari, is part of the project "A door to infinity" - man and the Absolute in art, within the cycle of Art and Liturgy, promoted by the Rector Monsignor Walter Insero [Chaplain of Francis], which sees in the Church of the Artists a space of dialogue between contemporary art and spirituality. 

 IAGO - BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

JAGO is an Italian artist who works in the field of sculpture and video production.  He was born in Frosinone in 1987, where he attended art high school and then the Academy of Fine Arts (left in 2010).  He is an independent and multifaceted artist who has managed to combine artistic talent and communication skills, earning the appellation of "social artist".

His artistic research has its roots in the techniques inherited from the masters of the Renaissance: he uses a traditional material, marble, to tell the stories of our contemporaneity.  What drives it is the will to innovate, taking an example from the lessons of the past.

Link.

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Swiss Guards Resign For Not Taking Devil Vaxx

 VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Three members of the Swiss guards, the armed forces charged with protecting the pope, decided to leave their post after objecting to the Vatican’s vaccine requirement.

Starting Oct. 1, Vatican City enacted a “green pass” requirement to enter and work at the small city-state. All individuals, lay and religious, wishing to enter the Vatican walls must provide documentation proving they have received at least one dose of the vaccine, tested negative to COVID-19 or recovered from the disease.

A document signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin specified that “any personnel without the necessary certifications cannot access the workplace and must be considered inexcusably absent” from work, meaning they will be left without pay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/three-swiss-guards-resign-following-vatican-vaccine-mandate/2021/10/04/ef694e3a-2529-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

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Exposing Fauci

Attorney Thomas Renz Releases Stunning Data from Never Before Seen Vaccine Injury/Death Tracking System

Thanks to a Whistleblower that came forth to Attorney Thomas Renz, the public is now seeing, for the first time ever, hard data from the largest database available in the U.S. to study the COVID-19 impact including deaths & injuries; The CMS Medicare Tracking System. 

During an extraordinary speech at Clay Clark’s ReAwaken America Tour, Attorney Thomas Renz shocked the crowd of thousands in attendance and millions watching via livestream as he revealed: 

That data from the Medicare Tracking System reveals that 19,400 people less than 80 years old have died within 14 days of receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine.

In addition, 28,065 people have died that are over the age of 80 within 14 days of receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

The Total number of American Citizens that died within 14 days of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is 48,465 according to hard data revealed in the Medicare Tracking System.

In July Attorney Renz Whistleblower, under penalty of perjury, stated that she estimated at least 45K people had died from the Covid-19 Vaccine. USA Today Fact Checkers and other fact checking services claimed that to be “misinformation.”  Today’s revelations solidify that the “Trusted News Initiative” is actually the source of misinformation and propaganda, and that Attorney Thomas Renz Whistleblower was correct all along.

After proving that over 45K people have died from the COVID-19 vaccine, Attorney Renz then moved his attention to focus on the amount of people that are being killed in American hospitals by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s instituted protocol of Remdesivir. 
 

Attorney Renz is also in possession of Remdesivir death data from the Medicare Tracking System that has been withheld by the government from our citizens. 

The Remdesivir data reveals of the 7,960 beneficiaries prescribed Remdesivir for Covid-19 2,058 died. That is 25.9%.

46% of people died within 14 days of  the Remdesivir Treatment. The Remdesivir Treatment was established in U.S. Hospitals at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci. 

Serious adverse events were reported in 131 of the 532 patients who received Remdesivir. That is 24.6%.

Attorney Renz says ” This begs the question… Why is this the protocol in American Hospitals? Does this appear “Safe and Effective” to you?”

RENZ NURSE WHISTLEBLOWERS REVEAL TWO TIER SYSTEM OF CARE DEPENDING ON YOUR VACCINE STATUS

During Attorney Thomas Renz speech at Clay Clark’s ReAwaken America Tour in Colorado Springs, Colorado Renz also talked about 2 Whistleblower nurses that revealed to him that they have seen a 2 tier system of health care depending on the patients “vaccination status.”  “The nurses revealed to me that patients that are vaccinated are getting Ivermectin, which is proven to heal people. But if you are unvaccinated, they put you on Remdesivir in the hopes that you will die” said Attorney Thomas Renz. 

THE FDA IS TRACKING VACCINE DEATHS, ALL THE WHILE CLAIMING THE COVID VACCINE IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE

Also during Attorney Renz’ speech he revealed that the FDA is actively working with CMS real-time data ( CMS Medicare database ) to gather weekly reports on Covid-19 adverse events, despite the fact that the US population is told repeatedly this vaccine is “safe and effective.”  Attorney Renz says “This information has never been given to the public, and you will see why they have kept it hidden and never published. It’s very damning, and this data reveals that the FDA knew what was coming, let it happen, and thousands and thousands have died or been injured.” 

During his speech Renz revealed in one state alone ( New York ) that the amount of people who experienced adverse events after the Covid shot were in the thousands. Adverse events experienced by people who got the Covid-19 shot in New York State included thousands of cardiovascular events, thousands of cases of people getting Covid, and thousands of deaths. At least 13 side effects are reported in the system. “Remember, these are “side effects” that the government, media, and social media continue to tell the public that are not happening. The mantra of “safe and effective” must stop after today’s information” says Attorney Renz. 

A copy of Attorney Renz entire speech along with data from the hidden vaccine tracking system will be posted on his website at www.Renz-Law.com 

More and more side effects from the jab

The Death of a Queen

 

The guillotine was the murder machine of the French Revolution.  The royal couple also fell victim to her.

[Katholisches] On June 21, 1791, Marie Antoinette and her entire family were arrested and placed under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace.  In the summer of 1792 she were thrown into a dungeon and her husband, King Louis XVI.  (1774–1791 / 92), was executed January 1793.  Her son, Crown Prince Louis Charles, who was only seven years old, had been taken away from her.  The child was tortured by the revolutionaries to obtain a "confession" for defamatory charges against the queen.  He would only survive the parents for a short time.  The Dauphin, who was named Louis XVII by the monarchists, died at the age of ten.  He expired in the Paris Temple prison on the conditions of detention.

His mother, who never took part in government affairs, was initially locked up in this prison, which the revolutionaries had set up in the former Grand Master's seat of the Knights Templar.  In the summer of 1793 Marie Antoinette was transferred to the Conciergerie Prison and thus separated from her daughter.  In a farce trial, she, who was addressed as "Widow Capet", was tried.  The death sentence was already fixed.  The handpicked jury unanimously approved it.  On October 16, 1793, the queen was guillotined.

Few characters in history are more distorted in the collective memory, which proves the long-lasting effect of malicious propaganda tales.  As the Austrian archduchess and daughter of the emperor, Marie Antoinette was hated by parts of the French nobility.  This aversion to the Habsburg woman was shared in the revolutionary spirit of the enemies of the monarchy and the old order.  From this unusual transverse front, smear campaigns were carried out against them even before the marriage with the Dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV, long before the outbreak of the revolution.  Nothing changed when she became Queen of France in 1774.

Marie Antoinette went down in history as the prototype of the incarnate lascivious, unworldly and arrogant pride of monarchs and high nobility.  Even today every child knows that she responded to the demands of the hungry people for bread: "Then let them eat cake".  The absolute contempt of the needy.  Only: Marie Antoinette never said that sentence.  It was said of her, and with bad intent.  The anecdote alleged is what we now call fake news, a hoax with far-reaching and devastating consequences.  Nevertheless, it is still being spread freshly and cheerfully today.  It suited the revolutionaries too well, and their spirit still determines the historiography of the events of that time.  As is well known, the winner writes history.

The cake fairy tale comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the most important pioneers of the revolution.  However, he had already been dead for four years when his story was first published in 1782.  He had written it many years before and never claimed that it had anything to do with the daughter of the Roman-German emperor.  At that time Marie Antoinette was still a small child who lived in distant Vienna and no one could have guessed that she would one day become Queen of France.  In the style of "Once upon a time", Rousseau ascribed the sentence to an unnamed "great princess".  It was easy for the revolutionaries to turn the narrative against the queen seven years later.  This “variation” was devoured only too willingly by its followers, who were able to bring even greater fermentation into the people.

Marie Antoinette with her children. The first-born Ludwig Joseph (right) died in childhood before the outbreak of the revolution.  The second-born, Ludwig Karl (Ludwig XVII.), On the queen's lap, ended up in the dungeon of the revolution.

How the Emperor's daughter and Queen Marie Antoinette died, beyond low chatter says more about her, however.  Her executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson, kept a diary.  For the execution of the Queen, he noted how the masses of onlookers jostled along the streets that led from the prison to the scaffold:

“When she passed the Palais Égalité, she seemed alarmed;  she looked at the numerous house numbers with an expression on her face that betrayed more than curiosity.  The Queen had foreseen that a priest of the Roman Church would not be allowed to give her the highest consolation of religion;  she was worried about it, but an unauthorized member of the clergy, the Abbé Magnien, who had invaded the conciergerie, had promised her that on the day of her torture he would go to a house on the rue Saint-Honoré to put this absolution on her head  in extremis, for which the Church has given all its power to the simplest of its ministers.  The number of this house had been told Marie-Antoinette and so she looked for it;  she found it, and at a sign that only she could understand, when she recognized the priest, she bowed her head, remained in a devout posture and prayed;  then a sigh of relief escaped her chest and you saw a smile on her lips. "

The clergy had been forced to submit to the state by the revolutionary government. It was required to take an oath on the civil constitution for the clergy.  This was the only way to keep one’s pay.  The deprivation of livelihoods wasn't the only leverage.  Anyone who did not take the oath was declared to be a "threat to the nation", which meant that the priests who refused this abuse of power by the state were regarded as enemies of the state.  Pope Pius VI  condemned the despotic intervention of the state.  Those who stood firm were called "refractors," while the bishops and priests who took the oath came to be known as "sworn" or "constitutional" clergy.  Only this was recognized.  Refractory priests caught celebrating Mass were executed.  Abbé Magnien, who gave the queen absolution in extremis, was such a refractory priest.

Constitutional priests had been admitted to the Queen's prison for execution prior to departure.  Marie Antoinette turned them down because she did not want the assistance of schismatic priests.  In her last letter she had written:

 “I am dying in the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was raised and to which I had always confessed.  Since I cannot expect any spiritual assistance, as I do not know whether there are still priests of this religion here and the place where I am would betray them if they should occur, I sincerely ask God for forgiveness for all of them  my offenses that I have committed since I existed [...]. "

The grandson of her hangman, who was also called Charles-Henri Sanson, published the diaries of his grandfather many years later, who was accompanied by his son as an assistant during the execution of the Queen.  The grandson wrote:

“Never, my father often repeated to me, has Marie Antoinette shown herself more worthy of her high rank.  She was a true queen, this woman who, without turning pale or lowering her eyes, endured the wild glances of the sovereign people;  heard the roar of the lion without trembling, to which she was thrown as prey;  who, like the Roman Caesar, stood upright without bending her knees;  for whom the wretched cart was still a throne;  who even succeeded in the humiliation to which she had been brought, to compel hearts, incapable of compassion, to awe by the strength of her soul. "

The revolutionary officer in charge of the execution waved his sword and repeatedly ordered the executioner Sanson to show the crowd the head of the executed queen.  Finally one of his assistants carried the severed head around to the scaffold like a trophy.  The call rang out: "Vive la Republique", "Long live the Republic".

 "Alone, this exclamation was limited to the immediate vicinity of the scaffold," as Sanson's grandson noted.” 

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: Wikicommons / MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

AMDG

Great Vaccine!