https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1848506293830488236
Very, very apt.
Whether a republic or monarchy etc, what matters is Christ in the hearts of man, that is why the American Revolution did not end in a total nightmare while the French Revolution who copied the exact same recipe ended in a total nightmare that they have never recovered from that... because the French thought they could do away with Christ along with the King, the builders rejected the cornerstone in Matthew 21:42. Even Napoleon Bonaparte, with glorious French history like Charlemagne, would pointedly reject that by placing the crown on his own head and chase after doomed figures like Julius Caesar instead.
Much of that period was caught up too much on the 'system' and not enough on the reign of Christ in the hearts of man, that's why Portugal on track to end up worse than even the Bolshevik Revolution, did not end like that thanks to Our Lady of Fatima, there is a common theme with both the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution, both of those had a cινιℓ ωαr where Christians instead of focusing on the reign of Christ in the hearts of man were too focused on the system and these Monarchs had flaws so the revolutionaries were not entirely wrong on everything, but they rejected the cornerstone, and many counter revolutionaries were too focused on the system and not enough on the reign of Christ in the hearts of man IMO.
As said in other threads, it wasn't the Vendee that ended the reign of terror, in fact they spurred it on, it was the Martyrs of Compiegne that ended the reign of terror and resulted in the blood thirsty tyrant Robespierre being executed. The Vendee, despite their best efforts did not accomplish that, but the Martyrs of Compiegne did.
Unlike Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'pacifism' conclusion though, there is a time and place for everything, for Constantine the Great received the Chi-Rho and King Louis XIV was given the Sacred Heart as a military standard (which he rejected), but it's not for lay Christians to take matters into their own hands when legitimate authority spurns such graces.
"Our Lady of Victory, Ark of the New Covenant, Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, Pray for us."God Bless