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Day 20 of our daily reflection companion for the month of the Sacred Heart from the perspective of the Papal Zouaves🇻🇦🙏

This reflection can be found on the French website The Catholic Counter-Reformation.

June 20

Lieutenant de Quatrebarbes

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In September 1867, Garibaldi resumed the offensive. He decided to attack Monte-Rotondo, a small town located on a steep hill, north of Rome. The papal garrison was only 350 strong.

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However, after four successive assaults of the enemy, they broke through the fierce resistance of the Papal Zouaves. The incessant artillery fire, directed with great skill by Lieutenant de Quatrebarbes, wrought havoc among the Garibaldians.

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"It is largely to M. de Quatrebarbes that the success of the day was due," reported his superior, Colonel de Charette, "and I cannot praise myself enough for his indefatigable zeal and the intelligence with which he succeeded in pass his piece along impassable paths.”

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Firing in the open under a hail of bullets, Quatrebarbes was wounded in the left arm and had to be transported to the ambulance

"God willing! Every day I offer all my sufferings to God so that all my people may serve him faithfully and always be the defenders of the Church”

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“The daily offering of sufferings in union with those of Jesus crucified for the salvation of the world, the patient but also joyful acceptance of illness, are a spiritual resource, a precious treasure in the Church.” (Pope Francis)

Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Have mercy on us!🇻🇦
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