Recently, Pope Francis has fast tracked the canonization process for a group of 16 Carmelite martyrs, killed during the French Revolution, who went to their deaths singing Laudate Dominum as they mounted the scaffold.
When you mentioned the Spanish Civil War, why not call the Nationalists what they were: extremely violent fascists.
Interesting to call the Republicans "commies" but the Nationalists are simply...Nationalists? Seems oddly biased when you look at the death tolls from each group...
Apparently there is a variety of opinions about what the Carmelites were singing. I've read that they were singing the "Salve Regina." Whatever the hymn, everyone who admires this heroic story will
appreciate Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmelites," one of the few great operas of the last century. It's one of the rarities of grand opera: Christians, and not only Christians but good Catholics as the subject. The last act is absolutely powerful.
When you mentioned the Spanish Civil War, why not call the Nationalists what they were: extremely violent fascists.
Interesting to call the Republicans "commies" but the Nationalists are simply...Nationalists? Seems oddly biased when you look at the death tolls from each group...
Great article otherwise.
Apparently there is a variety of opinions about what the Carmelites were singing. I've read that they were singing the "Salve Regina." Whatever the hymn, everyone who admires this heroic story will
appreciate Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmelites," one of the few great operas of the last century. It's one of the rarities of grand opera: Christians, and not only Christians but good Catholics as the subject. The last act is absolutely powerful.