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*Image (above): The Carthusian Martyrs at Tyburn by Andrew Brown Donaldson, c. 1900 [London Charterhouse]

By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing, Nov. 2, 2019

Note: Today Robert Royal files his final report on the Amazon Synod. Click here to read “Lost in a Dark Wood.”

Elizabeth A. MitchellIn the midst of bustling London, on a sliver of pavement at the intersection of Edgware and Bayswater Roads, not far from the well-known Marble Arch, stands a marker, which reads, “The site of Tyburn Tree.”

In an abandoned cell, inside the now derelict Auschwitz Prison Block 11, is an image of the Sacred Heart, etched by a prisoner’s hands.

Those who suffered for their beliefs in these places of infamy, including the Tyburn martyrs and St. Maximilian Kolbe, have long since gone before us.  Silenced for their beliefs by regimes much stronger than their poor capacity to resist, their voices should have been extinguished forever.  These simple markers should be the only remnant of their overpowered and seemingly futile witness.

And yet, it is the tyrants and regimes themselves which have fallen away, powerless and defeated.  The gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau today swing open, empty and deserted.  The all-encompassing power that manned the guard towers and supervised the trains has long since passed away.  The gates of Hampton Court now welcome day visitors, its hallowed tenant, Henry VIII, reduced to empty legend. ….

 

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