Author Topic: Chivalry and Our Lady (Read 304 times)

jake1 · « **on:** January 20, 2015, 12:34:46 PM »

This is a great article that punctuates the sharp differences between traditional Christian culture and our culture of mush.

Chivalry, it is said, is dead. Inasmuch as it was already being said before the rise of modern feminism, back in the pre-60s days when men did not risk a nasty look or sharp words if they opened a door for a woman or offered a seat on the bus to one, it is probably true — more or less. After all, opening a door for a woman or offering a seat to her is more a matter of simple good manners than chivalry as such.

Yet, now and then something will happen that suggests chivalry, moribund as it may be, is not quite dead. The present writer remembers hearing about a dramatic instance of the real thing — not mere good manners but true chivalry — as recently as 1982. This was during a trip to Argentina. Our Lady was central to the story.

Anyone who knows Argentina will probably agree that even today it is the most Marian land in ex-Christendom. Eighteen years ago, it was still more the case. This was to the extent that Our Lady, by law, was Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s armed forces. By custom, a statue of her as Our Lady of Lujan, the national patroness, stood at every entrance into every town and city. Whether you were driving in by car or arriving at the airport or train or bus station, there she would be.

The story I was told in 1982 was of an incident that took place a couple of years before. The so-called “Dirty War,” a military campaign to crush an urban-based Marxist insurgency, was still going on. The eventual success of the campaign so outraged leftists in the U.S. and elsewhere that to this day they continue to vilify the officers who conducted it, labeling them fascists, nαzιs and αnтι-ѕємιтєs. At the time, the danger of falling victim to a Marxist guerrilla action was sufficient that many ordinary Argentines carried guns for self-defense.

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Chivalry and Our Lady

Author Topic: Chivalry and Our Lady (Read 304 times)

jake1

Chivalry and Our Lady