I've always loved the Fleur de Lis, French for lily flower. From Jackie's blog, "The entry of the fleur de lis on the arms of France is miraculous. Legend says that the lily was the emblem of the Virgin who sent her flower by an angel to Clovis, the Frankish king, at his conversion in 493.
The golden lilies on an azure ground came to symbolise the all the Christian Frankish Kings, most famously Charlemagne."Read more here.
HT to Elena.
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How would France kmow, in that time, that it would turn one of the most ferocious anti-catholic places on earth?! The french revolution is still today celebrated with big honour. Catholics had a dificult life - and death - in the XIX century but also in the XX. About the XXI, what can we say? All the world is anti-catholic in a way or another.
I've always been so sad about the executions of Louis and Marie Antoinette, and others. Ever since I was a little child I've visited Versailles, and it always makes my heart ache.
My home town, St. Louis, celebrates Bastille Day second only to Paris.
It's too gross to mention more.
To think that little girl St. Joan protected France from the English, keeping it free to be Catholic.
Maybe we'll see a conversion in Europe en masse.
I thought you might enjoy more Francophile history: September Massacres http://beautifulcatholicfaith.blogspot.com/2009/09/september-massacres-of-catholic-priests.html
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