For Altar and Throne: The Rising in the Vendee
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1890740004
ISBN 13
9781890740009
Category
History - France
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
100
Description
You who were born in the land of the Vendee . . . are the heirs of men and women who were courageous enough to remain faithful to the Church of Jesus Christ at a time when her freedom and independence was threatened . . . In the numerous acts of witness that have come down to us, it is moving to see that the people of the Vendee remained attached to their parishes and their priests in spite of the cruelty of persecution. - Pope John Paul II
It is a matter of great regret that very few English-speaking Catholics know anything whatsoever about the events to which the Holy Father was referring [in the above quotation]. Very few, in fact, would even recognize the word "Vendee." The aim of this modest book is to commemorate the visit of the Successor of St. Peter to the Vendee, where the people remained faithful to the Vicar of Christ and attached to their parishes and their priests, in spite of the cruelty of persecution to which they were subjected during the French Revolution. There is no more noble or inspiring story in the entire history of the Church than that of the heroic struggle of the people of the Vendee to defend their altars and their King. - Michael Davies
In making this war known to the English-speaking world, Michael Davies has undertaken a most important task, a task which he has performed with a level of competence and emotion that I am pleased to salute here. - Arnaud de lassus, Paris, France
It is beyond dispute that a number of authors from the British Isles have possessed a penetrating insight into our history, which they sometimes analyze more effectively than we do ourselves, as they have not been involved in the quarrels which divide Frenchmen. Thus we had Edmund Burke, an Irishman and a contemporary of the French Revolution. Thus we have Michael Davies, a Welshman, President of the International Una Voce Federation, who has provided us with an illuminating synthesis of the wars of the Vendee. - Christian Bhavsar, Versailles, France
It should be a matter of little surprise to learn that precious few Americans have ever even heard of the Catholic uprising in the Vendee - the most important opposition to the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror. American educational systems have rarely managed to accurately teach the history of our own Revolutionary War, let alone the whole truth behind the Revolution of 1789, in France. In For Altar and Throne, Michael Davies provides a great service for English-speaking Catholics by documenting the whole truth behind the maliciously re-written history of this most important era in Western history - an era that was, in fact, nothing less than a war against the Catholic Church! - Michael J Matt, United States of America
Taken from the back cover.
Illustrated by Thomas Brannon.
It is a matter of great regret that very few English-speaking Catholics know anything whatsoever about the events to which the Holy Father was referring [in the above quotation]. Very few, in fact, would even recognize the word "Vendee." The aim of this modest book is to commemorate the visit of the Successor of St. Peter to the Vendee, where the people remained faithful to the Vicar of Christ and attached to their parishes and their priests, in spite of the cruelty of persecution to which they were subjected during the French Revolution. There is no more noble or inspiring story in the entire history of the Church than that of the heroic struggle of the people of the Vendee to defend their altars and their King. - Michael Davies
In making this war known to the English-speaking world, Michael Davies has undertaken a most important task, a task which he has performed with a level of competence and emotion that I am pleased to salute here. - Arnaud de lassus, Paris, France
It is beyond dispute that a number of authors from the British Isles have possessed a penetrating insight into our history, which they sometimes analyze more effectively than we do ourselves, as they have not been involved in the quarrels which divide Frenchmen. Thus we had Edmund Burke, an Irishman and a contemporary of the French Revolution. Thus we have Michael Davies, a Welshman, President of the International Una Voce Federation, who has provided us with an illuminating synthesis of the wars of the Vendee. - Christian Bhavsar, Versailles, France
It should be a matter of little surprise to learn that precious few Americans have ever even heard of the Catholic uprising in the Vendee - the most important opposition to the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror. American educational systems have rarely managed to accurately teach the history of our own Revolutionary War, let alone the whole truth behind the Revolution of 1789, in France. In For Altar and Throne, Michael Davies provides a great service for English-speaking Catholics by documenting the whole truth behind the maliciously re-written history of this most important era in Western history - an era that was, in fact, nothing less than a war against the Catholic Church! - Michael J Matt, United States of America
Taken from the back cover.
Illustrated by Thomas Brannon.
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