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April 13, 2006:
With the Feast of Saint Hermenegild, we are happy to announce completion of a complete redesign of the Vatican In Exile website. This year Holy Thursday supplants this feast, but the story of Saint Hermenegild is quite appropriate to our times.
“Leovigild, King of the Visigoths, had two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, who reigned conjointly with him. All three were Arians, but Hermenegild married a zealous Catholic, the daughter of Sigebert, King of France, and by her holy example was converted to the faith. His father, on hearing the news, denounced him as a traitor, and marched to seize his person. Hermenegild tried to rally the Catholic of Spain in his defense, but they were too weak to make any stand, and, after a two years’ fruitless struggle, he surrendered on the assurance of a free pardon. When safely in the royal camp, the king had him loaded with fetters and cast into a foul dungeon at Seville. Tortures and bribes were in turn employed to shake his faith, but Hermenegild wrote to his father that he held the crown as nothing, and preferred to lost scepter and life rather than betray the truth of God. At length, on Easter night, an Arian bishop entered his cell, and promised him his father’s pardon if he would but receive Communion at his hands. Hermenegild indignantly rejected the offer, and knelt with joy for his death-stroke. The same night a light streaming from his cell told the Christians who were watching near that the martyr had won his crown, and was keeping his Easter with the Saints in glory.” (Pictorial Lives of the Saints)
Today true Catholics refuse to receive our Lord in Holy Communion at the hands of the Traditionalists heretics, or to participate in worshipping the bread idols at the Novus Ordo Missae. (See Imposter Popes and Idol Altars for more details) True Catholics recognize that we are in that time prophesied in Sacred Scripture, when the Continual Sacrifice of the Mass ceases to be celebrated upon earth, as the Fathers unanimously hold to be true. Like Hermenegild, we will give our life rather than participate in blasphemy or sacrilege at unworthy altars erected throughout the world by all manner of heretics.
