Offsite Post: ‘The Lake of Saint Beatus’

 

Lake Thun,

What did you see

Above your waters?

‘A hermit blazing

With Divine Fire,

Being lifted up

Into the sky.’

 

Lake Thun,

What now do you see

With your liquid eyes?

‘A giant fiend

Obstructing the mountains –

His legs like iron pillars,

Whose black wings stretch

Across the horizon,

 . . .

 

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/the-lake-of-saint-beatus/.

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For a life of St Beatus of Switzerland and other Orthodox saints of that land:

https://roca.org/oa/volume-vii/issue-63/orthodoxys-western-heritage-mission-in-the-alps/

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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!