Historical novelist: author of TRIANON, MADAME ROYALE, and MARIE-ANTOINETTE, DAUGHTER OF THE CAESARS. Catholic Carmelite tertiary. Guest on EWTN Bookmark.
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Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Communism is the most barbaric, evil ideology the world has ever seen.
Today and every day, we mourn the tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children slain at the hands of this wicked ideology.
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
The ball gown worn by Audrey Hepburn at the Embassy Ball in My Fair Lady is one of the most famous costumes in movie history.
It was designed by Cecil Beaton, who won Academy Awards for the film’s costume and art direction.
The gown is a shimmering white, crystal-embellished evening dress with an elongated Edwardian silhouette. “It’s a most exciting job and one that I would very much have hated anyone else to have done!” -Cecil Beaton
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Waterloo Muharebesi'nin ardından Napoleon Bonaparte’ın İngilizlere teslim olmasıyla başlayan süreç, sadece bir esarete değil, aynı zamanda bir unvan savaşına da dönüşmüştü. İngiliz hükümetinin direktifine göre, Napoleon'a egemen bir hükümdar gibi davranılmayacaktı. Resmi talimatlar, ona "General Buonaparte" denmesini emrediyordu. Büyük Britanya, Fransız Devrimi ve sonrasındaki Napoleon Savaşları boyunca Napoleon'u hiçbir zaman Fransa’nın meşru hükümdarı olarak tanımamıştı. İngiliz resmi politikasına göre, 1789 Devrimi’nden sonra Fransa’da kurulan cumhuriyetçi rejimler ve ardından gelen Napoleon’un birinci imparatorluk dönemi, Bourbon Hanedanı’nın meşru tahtını gasp eden yasa dışı yönetimlerdi. Bu kasıtlı hitap değişikliği, Napoleon’u sadece rütbe olarak küçültmeyi değil, aynı zamanda onun Fransız kimliğini ve meşruiyetini kökten sarsmayı da amaçlıyordu. Resmi yazışmalarda, gazete haberlerinde ve karikatürlerde ısrarla orijinal İtalyan imlası olan "Buonaparte" adı kullanıldı. Napoleon, 1769 yılında Korsika Adası'nda doğduğunda ailesinin adı İtalyan kökenlerine uygun olarak "Buonaparte" idi. Korsika, Napoleon’un doğumundan sadece bir yıl önce Ceneviz Cumhuriyeti tarafından Fransa’ya satılmıştı. Napoleon, gençlik yıllarında Fransız ordusunda yükselirken ve özellikle 1796'daki İtalya Seferi'ne komuta etmeye başlamadan hemen önce, ismini kulağa daha Fransızca gelmesi için "Bonaparte" olarak değiştirmişti.
Napoleon ve maiyeti, rütbe düşürmeyi kasıtlı bir aşağılama olarak gördü ve protesto etti. St. Helena Adası'nda kendisine "General Bonaparte" yazılı mektuplar veya "General Buonaparte" yazılı belgeler getirildiğinde bunları açmayı dahi reddetti. İngiliz subaylarına, kendisinin Fransa Devleti'nin başı olduğunu ve Fransız halkı tarafından seçildiğini hatırlatarak bunun hakaret amaçlı kasıtlı bir provokasyon olduğunu belirtti. Bu durum, Napoleon için sadece bir gurur meselesi değil, aynı zamanda tarihteki mirasını koruma mücadelesiydi. Kendisine "General" denmesini, kazandığı zaferlerin ve Avrupa haritasını yeniden şekillendiren askeri dehasının silinmeye çalışılması olarak görüyordu. İngilizler için ise Napoleon’u "General" seviyesine indirmek, onu meşruiyet zemininden çıkarma çabasıydı. Napoleon, St. Helena’da bir "General" olarak tecrit altında ölse de tarih sayfalarına ve insanlığın hafızasına adını her zaman "İmparator Napoleon" olarak yazdırdı.
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Happy Feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers!
In each and all the Dominican saints, whether famous or anonymous, we catch a glimpse of Dominic’s own special grace—the grace of the Word, which impelled him to speak always either with God or about God.
Every Dominican’s life is indeed marked by his own cooperation with this Dominican grace, whereby he becomes a praedicator gratiae, a preacher of grace.
Like Dominic, the Dominican first speaks with God in prayer and contemplative study, praising him and blessing him, and then he speaks forth about God in common life and the apostolate, predicating in word and deed the one truth who saves: Jesus Christ is Lord.
All the Dominican saints we celebrate today have partaken of this grace, each in a unique measure. And so we chant at Vespers this evening: This is true fraternity, which conquers the darkness of the world by the love of Christ (Responsory, Feast of All Dominican Saints).
For all who are clothed in the Dominican life, and for all who benefit from the Order’s ministries in any way, the Feast of All Dominican Saints is a sign of wonderful hope.
Dominic’s intercession, now compounded by that of untold Dominican saints throughout the ages, yet redounds to the salvation of a great multitude, which no one could count (Rev 7:9): thousands upon thousands of Dominicans hitherto, and millions upon millions of those touched by the Order’s charism.
Today, we rejoice, praising and blessing God and beseeching Holy Father Dominic and the whole host of heavenly hounds, that they keep sending help for the holy preaching unto the ends of the earth: Fulfill Father, what you have said, and help us by your prayers.
—Fr. Charles Marie Rooney, O.P.
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ALT This image is a painting depicting a religious figure, likely a Dominican saint, gazing upwards. A hand reaching down from above is offering what appears to be a striped object. A halo encircles the figure's head, and a star symbol is visible within it. A passage below reflects on the grace of the Word and communication with God.
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Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Good morning all on this Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Good wishes to all those commemorating #RemembranceSunday throughout the former Empire.
[Chevalier Fortunino Matania, "The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, 1915", (1916)]
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
The Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven, and is now Queen of heaven and earth.
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7 novembre 1831 : Naissance de Sœur Marie de la Croix (Mélanie Calvat), religieuse française, témoin le 19 septembre 1846, de l'apparition de la Sainte Vierge Marie à La Salette († 15 décembre 1904).
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Horrific mass shooting in Krakow, Poland.
A masked monster opened fire from a vehicle straight into innocent crowds. Multiple reported dead and injured.
Pray for the victims and their families. 🙏🏻🇵🇱
Find out who did this and hold them accountable immediately. No mercy.
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
Cecil Beaton’s iconic 1948 Vogue photograph features Charles James’s sculptural, architecturally engineered ball gowns, America’s first true couturier.
Elena Maria Vidal retweeted
On November 7th, 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power Russia, promising “peace, land and bread” to the people. Over the next 74 years the people were starved, killed by death squads, thrown in work camps and gulags, and other things unrelated to “peace, land and bread”.
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ISLAMIZED AMERICA – BUYING SEX IN ALLAH’S NAME!
For years, I have been reporting on imams pimping women for temporary sex in Sweden. Now the same thing is happening in America, and Texas just gave imams official marriage power.
We do not understand this enemy taking over America.
Swedish state television even caught Shia imams arranging temporary “pleasure marriages”- short-term contracts that could last hours - so men could pay women for sex. The imams took a cut.
Police called it pimping and human trafficking.
Vulnerable women were used, then discarded. Men cheated on their real wives under a "religious" cover. This same so-called "religious" cover is what is conquering our nation!
I have been screaming about this for years: imams acting as "religious" pimps, temporary sex contracts dressed up as marriage, the same pattern imported from Islamic countries and defended with Islamic scripture.
They did this same thing in the UK with the Islamic grooming gangs!
Now the exact same mindset is being discussed openly in the United States.
Yaqeen Institute - Jihadi Imam Omar Suleiman’s outfit - just ran a segment admitting there is a “rise in secret marriages.”
The defense some men give? “I got her consent and two witnesses - what’s the problem?”
Hide it from your first wife and family. Check the "religious" boxes. Deception is fine.
One scholar compared it to doing Hajj with stolen money: legally “valid” on paper, still wrong and sinful.
This is temporary prostitution and concealed extra wives sold as "religious" marriage. Men get to cheat. Women get used.
Imams facilitate it and get paid. Allahu Akbar!
While this is happening, Texas is expanding imams’ official power.
HB 1044 explicitly added “Muslim imam” to the list of people authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies under state law.
We are handing more legal recognition and authority to the same institutions while parallel Islamic practices - temporary sex contracts and hidden second wives - are being normalized inside these mini Islamic states or what the media calls their "religious" communities.
This is the same pattern I have reported on for years across Europe. Parallel Islamic systems are imported, then defended with "religious" language.
One set of rules for the public, another behind closed doors where women lose and the imam gets paid.
Politicians on both sides stay silent because they want the vote.
Democrats chase the bloc. Republicans get sold the “shared values” line while ignoring classical rulings on polygyny, temporary contracts, and all other related matters.
Do we understand yet that America is not immune?
Islamic communities are already doing it. The institutions are discussing it. Texas is formalizing more authority for the facilitators.
I’ve been sounding the alarm on this exact setup for years and years...
We do not understand this enemy taking over America.
Get engaged. Register your churches to vote so we can STOP letting Republican politicians pander to Islam.
This is already here. We are being taken over America!
Islamic Sweden:
Buying Sex in Allah's Name 'Pleasure Marriages': Imams Caught Pimping Vulnerable Girls in Sweden
Muslim men wanting sex pay an Imam to perform a “pleasure marriage” between himself & a child or woman in return for a cut of the fee.
Authorities claimed to have been "shocked" to learn Imams are pimping “vulnerable women” to Muslim men.
Yet, these egregious exploitative practices are commonplace among third-world Islamic cultures and are now a systemic problem in Sweden and other Western nations.
Read: rairfoundation.com/pleasure-…
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Le 7 novembre 1659, il y a 367 ans, est signé le traité des Pyrénées. Il met fin à plus de vingt années de guerre entre l'Espagne et la France.
Œuvre de Mazarin, la paix est consolidée par le mariage entre le jeune Louis XIV et Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche.
L'une des conséquences indirectes de ce traité est le déclenchement de la guerre de dévolution (1667-1668).
En effet, Marie-Thérèse, devenue Reine de France, n'a renoncé à ses droits sur le trône d'Espagne que contre le paiement d'une dot. N'ayant jamais été réglée, elle sert de casus belli à Louis XIV en 1667 pour revendiquer, au nom de son épouse, des provinces espagnoles.
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A page from American Home with cut-away recipes: "Use some of these glamorous fresh vegetable dishes when ration points run low." Published in June 1943.
