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Friday, October 7, 2022

Offsite Post: ‘The Hidden Flower of Troyes’

 

The monuments of Modernity

Fiendishly devour the heavens and the earth,

The giant, hulking masses of steel

And concrete crushing the historical

Consciousness of Christianity

Out of the souls of Western peoples.

Banks, bureaucracies staffed with busybodies,

And other behemoth corporate interests:

Grim and beastly powers governing the world.

 

Unnoticed by the compound lenses

Of their prying insect eyes is a single

Little flower in Troyes, the maiden

Maura, the noble-born girl who poured out

Her wealth on the poor, prayed and labored

For long hours each day, and purified her soul

And body with streams of tears.  Dead at the age

Of twenty-three in the world’s reckoning,

But alive before God for more than

Eleven hundred by the Church’s.

 

When the West comes to herself and asks St Maura

To pray for her, . . .

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/the-hidden-flower-of-troyes/.

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A re-telling of the life of St Maura is here:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/212.html

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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!

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