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Remembering the Dead, by Regis Martin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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*Image: All Souls’ Day by Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch, 1910 [Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest]

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 2, 2024

Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. …

 

It remains one of the enduring consolations of my life that, joined as I am to Christ’s Body, the Church, I may at any time interact with the dead, with those cherished and faithful souls who have gone home before me to God.

Regis MartinAs Cardinal Richelieu lay dying, having successfully served as chief architect and advisor to the French monarchy, he was asked if he had forgiven his enemies, of which there were a great many scattered across France and the face of Europe. “There are none left,” he replied, suggesting that he’d either killed or simply outlasted them all.

So much for the meteoric rise of a once obscure member of the lesser nobility, to such dizzying heights as Prince of the Roman Catholic Church and Minister of State to King Louis XIII. As for myself, neither in matters civil nor religious have I ever done anything remotely comparable to the achievements of the celebrated cardinal. I can’t even speak French. Not two sentences of a language so lovely, I am told, that he established a learned academy charged with ensuring its preservation. …

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