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Friday, February 23, 2024

Offsite Post: ‘Holy Empresses’

 

Holy Adelaide,

Powerful ruler

Of many Western lands,

In the vicissitudes

Of your life – two times

Of buffeting

Followed by two times

Of calm and blessing –

Are reflected the history

Of all the West:

The cruelties of pagan

Rome’s idolatry,

The rise of Orthodoxy,

The fall away from Grace.

The latter continues apace;

Will we see another

Peaceful Christian age?

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/holy-empresses/.

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To read accounts of the lives of St Adelaide and St Theophano, go on over to these web pages:

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/lives-of-the-saints/volume-xii-december/st-alice-or-adelaide-empress

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/12/16/103558-saint-theophan-the-wonderworker-wife-of-emperor-leo-the-wise

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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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