Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.
I think Venner was extremely wrong in killing himself in the cathedral. This allowed people to dismiss him as a nutcase. Also, suicide to advance Christianity was forbidden by the Church in the very earliest centuries AD.
He should have waited until he could really be martyred, which isn’t going to br long nue.who
It wasn’t me but I’m sure the poster accepts your sentiments.
Thank you.
I am not sure he was even “advancing Christianity” so much as awakening France, which he viewed as heir of Homer more than of St. Dennis. And that is his cardinal mistake.
However, who is not against us is with us, and this keen student of history served Christian conservatism by giving his life for the Christian and the French civilization, the favorite child of our Mother Church. May Christ look kindly on his despair.