Charles of Blois(1319-1364), who claimed the Duchy of Brittany
in the name of his wife in the 1341-64 War of the Breton Succession,
was Beautified by pope Pius X(1903-14) in 1904.
Butchering thousands of defenceless
civilians as collective punishments was
just another of his pious acts, most
holy signs of his true Christian
faith, as much as the pebbles in his
shoes and the sackcloth under his
blood-stained armour. Faced with
his lust for a crown that made him
show no mercy for the old or the infant
or the pregnant or the low-born, lust
which drove him to wage decades of war
and led him to his own death, faced
with that, how could the pope not
declare him Beautified? In everything
he did Charles had been a true noble
son of the Catholic Church, blessed
in memory. Truly the wise pope knew
how the new century would turn out
and the type of Christian heroes
the Church had to put forth as examples
to the flock of the faithful.
04.03.2023
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