‘A Message for Spain and Dixie on Appomattox Day’

 

Appomattox –

A day of sadness for the South,

A day of rejoicing for her enemies.

I was greeted today (9 April 2025) by an article at the Abbeville Institute’s blog on the ongoing eradication of Southern culture and history at the Viriginia Military Institute.  This is a refrain that has grown all too familiar to traditional Southerners over the years.

Yet cultural genocide is not something Dixie bears alone.  Other Western countries are facing similar situations.  Spain’s Christian monuments in particular are being targeted by corrupt Leftists:

35 crosses have been removed by leftist officials across Spain, with many being destroyed, and more than 100 others could be headed for the same fate under the guise of an initiative to rid the country of symbols of the Francisco Franco dictatorship.

 

Another 12 crosses have also already been victim to ‘anonymous vandalism,’ resulting in their destruction.

 

 . . . Catholic groups report that thousands have gathered in defiance of Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist agenda in recent weeks at the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, which is home to the world’s tallest (492-foot) cross. They also insisted that “RECONSTRUIREMOS TODO LO QUE DERRIBEN,” or: “We will rebuild everything they demolish.”

 

The Spanish bishops’ conference also announced this week that this cross will stay standing—for now, at least—despite the government’s plan for “the deconsecration of the basilica and the departure of the Benedictines.”

 

This destruction has, in fact, been taking place for years, and has also seen dozens of statues, monuments and street names removed due to their links to Francoism. Vox’s Jorge Buxadé, recently interviewed by europeanconservative.com, described the destruction of crosses as “a true iconoclastic barbarism, which is hatred of history, culture, identity” (The European Conservative).

But just as the lamentations of both rise together, so too can both peoples rise to overcome the barbarians by the inspiration of their shared ancestors – for Spanish blood has for centuries flowed through the veins of the Southern people.

In particular, King Pelagius (Pelayo) of the Kingdom of Asturias in Spain offers an abundance of fiery hope.  On the Feast Day of the Spanish Icon of the Mother of God (8 April), we find the following recounted:

The appearance of this Icon dates back to the VIII century. With the help of the Mother of God, King Pelagius of Spain, won a brilliant victory over the Saracens in 718. In the same year, in the east, the Saracens were defeated by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. In remembrance of these events, a Feast Day for the Spanish Icon of the Mother of God was established. In this Icon, which is one of the "Most Pure" (Άχρáντου) type, the Mother of God is depicted seated on a throne with the Pre-eternal Child in her arms (Orthodox Church in America).

That brilliant victory occurred at the Battle of Covadonga.  Like the victories of the outmanned South in her battles with the Yankees, it is wonderful to read:

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The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/a-message-for-spain-and-dixie-on-appomattox-day.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!