The relationship between Jefferson Davis and Bl. Pius IX

A thread in honor of Confederate Memorial Day🧵

When the Civil War ended in April 1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis was thrown into prison and placed in solitary confinement with his legs riveted with iron.

1/15 Pius IX upon hearing of Davis's mistreatment in prison sent him two photographs of himself, one includes the Bible verse Matthew 11:28 "Come to me all all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord" Pius IX had a previous relationship with

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If you're in Rome for the upcoming conclave, consider checking out these sites related to the history of the Papal Zouaves🇻🇦🧵

#1 Monument dedicated to the fallen of the 1867 campaign.

Location: Campo Verano Cemetery next to San Lorenzo Outside the Walls
#2 Tomb of Papal States Army Commander and Minister of War General Herman Kanzler. Additionally, there are numerous other Papal Zouave graves throughout the cemetery.

Location: Campo Verano Cemetary

Papal States Military formation to receive a blessing from Bl. Pope Pius IX during Easter, 1870🇻🇦

This was the final formation of the entire Papal States military to receive a Papal Blessing before the fall of Rome on September 20, 1870.

1/8 The day after the siege of Sep. 20, Bl. Pius IX held one last formation to give his troops a final blessing before the military was disbanded and everyone was sent home.

An Irish Papal Zouave gave this account of the emotional scene.

"When all the soldiers were lined up,

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On this day 160 years ago, April 15 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in the head the night prior. One of the accused conspirators fled and joined the Papal Zouaves🇻🇦🧵

The initial plan was to capture Lincoln, however it fell through. A month later the

1/25 assassination was carried out instead. 12 days later, Booth, the assassin, was tracked to a barn and was killed. 8 other conspirators were arrested and convicted. One alleged conspirator remained, John Surratt, he would eventually be found hiding among the Papal Zouaves.

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Happy St. Patrick's day! To celebrate, let's take a look at some of the Irish who fought in the 9th Crusade, which took place from 1860-1870 in the Papal States against anti-clerical and revolutionary Italians🇻🇦🇮🇪🧵

1/10 Irish Papal Zouave (Franco-Belgian Battalion) Sub Lieutenant Nicolas Furey:

He joined the unit at only 16, and he received an injury during the Battle of Castelfidardo on Sep. 18, 1860, which required his leg to be amputated.

When told that he would lose his leg, he said,

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am pleased to announce our next republished book:

The Irish Battalion in the Papal Army of 1860☘️🇻🇦
By G. F.-H. Berkely

The book tells the story of the brave Irishmen who defended Bl. Pius IX and the Papal States from militant secularism.

1/7 At a time when revolution threatened to erase the last remnant of Christendom, a thousand Irish volunteers—aristocrats and peasants alike—left their homeland to take up arms for the Holy Father. Fighting at Perugia, Spoleto, Castelfidardo, and Ancona, they stood in defiance

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Belgian Papal Zouave Captain Jules Desclée🇻🇦🇧🇪🧵

Born in Tournai, Belgium on July 29, 1833, he was raised a devout Catholic. After the Papal States were invaded in 1860, he felt compelled to join the Papal Zouaves. He enlisted on Feb 13, 1861, with registration #605.

1/5 He quickly climbed the ranks, earning:
• Corporal on Aug 11, 1861
• Sergeant-Fourrier on Mar 21, 1862
• Sergeant-Major on Nov 11, 1862

In 1866 he became an officer, earning:
• Sub-Lieutenant on Oct 27, 1866
• Lieutenant on Aug 3, 1867
• Captain on Dec 14, 1867

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On this day 231 years ago, Jan. 28, 1794. Henri de La Rochejaquelein, the Commander-in-Chief of the Catholic and Royal Army was killed during the War in the Vendée when a Republican soldier pretended to surrender and then shot him.

A short thread on his life and the war🧵

1/13 Born in 1772, La Rochejaquelein was an experienced soldier. He joined the Royal Polish Regiment, in 1787 and the Flanders regiment of chasseurs in 1789. In March 1792, he became an officer of the Constitutional Guard, they were charged with protecting King Louis XVI.

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In honor of Texas Confederate Heroes Day today, I am reposting a past thread on the relations between the Papal States, Bl. Pius IX, and the Confederacy🇻🇦🧵

In the summer of 1863, Bl. Pius IX sent a joint letter to the archbishops of New Orleans and New York expressing

1/22 his desire for peace and prayers for them to work towards ending the Civil War.

In response Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent an Ambassador, Dudley Mann to Rome with a letter he had written to Bl. Pius IX. The Pope received Mann warmly and held an audience for him

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Song of the Dutch Papal Zouaves🇳🇱🇻🇦🧵

Flows Christian blood within your heart,
From all pollution free?
Prompt at your Father's call to start,
Uplift the song with me.
With fearless heart we'll fearless sing;
With loud and long acclaim,

1/6 The Prince of Peace, the Pontiff King,
Let each true tongue proclaim.
God! whole all wise and holy will,
Doth order all things well,
Let truth and justice triumph still
O'er all the powers of hell.
We flinch not from the cannon's breath,
Or bullet's murd'rous aim;

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On this day 161 years ago, Aug. 10, 1863. Bl. Pope Pius IX issued his encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore (On Promotion of False Doctrines) in response to the rise of modernism and the hostility of the Italian Government against the Church🇻🇦🧵

1/13 Addressed to the College of Cardinals and Italian Episcopate the Pope condemned the growing sense of modernism in society. He especially focused on the Piedmontese government (United Italy) who was actively persecuting the Church.

3 years earlier, the Piedmontese unjustly

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On this day 149 years ago, Aug. 6, 1875. Gabriel Garcia Moreno, the Catholic President of Ecuador and defender of the social kingdom of Christ, was assassinated by freemasons on the steps of the National Palace in Quito🇪🇨🇻🇦🧵

His last words were "God does not die!"

1/10 Bl. Pope Pius IX declared that Gabriel Garcia Moreno "died a victim for the Faith and Christian Charity for his beloved country."

He help make Catholicism the religion of the State and was the only ruler in the world to protest the Pope's loss of the Papal States in 1870.

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The Consecration of the Papal Zouaves (Volunteers of the West) to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, May 28, 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War🇫🇷🇻🇦🧵

(Original painting by Lionel Royer)

When the French Papal Zouaves returned to their country after the fall of Rome in Sept. 1870,

1/14 their valiant leader, the Baron de Charette, immediately placed the soldiers of the Pope under the special protection of the adorable Heart of Jesus.

The flag made by the nuns of Paray-le-Monial was unfurled for the first time during the Battle of Loigny on Dec. 2, 1870,

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One of the men responsible for the Sacré Coeur Basilica was Papal Zouave General Athanase de Charette🇻🇦🧵

After the fall of the Papal States in 1870, Charette and the French Papal Zouaves returned to France as a unit to fight the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war.

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Meanwhile, Alexandre Legentil. a pious Parisian made a national vow to oversee the building of a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart in Paris for reparations of the sins of the French people. He believed the sins of the past revolution were the cause of the current war.

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The ex voto ship offered by the Canadian Papal Zouaves to Mary for saving them from death at sea🇨🇦🇻🇦🧵

Around 500 Canadians travelled to Rome between 1868-1870 to join the Papal Zouaves and defend Bl. Pope Pius IX and the Papal States from Italian revolutionaries.

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After Rome fell on Sep. 20, 1870 the Pope's foreign soldiers were deported. The Canadian Papal Zouaves began to make their way home.

On Oct. 19, a large contingent of Canadian Zouaves left Liverpool, England aboard the American ship “Idaho” bound for New York.

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On this day 230 years ago, July 17th 1794, the 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were executed by the Comittee of Public Safety during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. 10 days later the Terror ended.

When they approached their place of execution they sang a Te Deum.

1/4 Each sister approached the Prioress and kissed a statue of the Virgin Mary she held in her hands and asked her permission to die.

Each sister knelt and chanted the "Veni Creator Spiritus" before her execution, then renewed their baptismal and religious vows.

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On this day 231 years ago, July 14th, 1793. Jacques Cathelineau, Generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army, succame to a gunshot wound he received at the Battle of Nantes on June 29th, 1793, during the Vendée war🧵

He was shot by a sniper while siezing Place Viarme.

1/7 His nickname was the "Saint of Anjou" his beatification was proposed at the end of the 19th century. However, the most informative documents of the diocesan process were lost in a fire in 1944 due to Allied bombing in Angers.

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On this day 175 years ago, July 3, 1849. The "Roman Republic" fell and the Papal States were restored🇻🇦🧵

On July 3, 1849. French Troops entered Rome and liberated the city from the revolutionary and masonic terrorists which forced Pope Pius IX to flee Rome and

1/21 overthrew the Papal Government.

This story began years earlier with the election of Bl. Pope Pius IX in 1846. At first, he was seen as a liberal. He was willing to grant reforms in his governance of the Papal States that his predecessors were unwilling to do.

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Day 23 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 23:

The Volunteers of the West

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The French Zouaves, returned by sea and landed at Toulon. Their commander, Colonel de Charette, took the road to Tours to offer the assistance of his regiment in the war against Prussia. President Gambetta was careful not to refuse the providential help of this elite troop.

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Day 18 of our daily reflection companion for the month of the Sacred Heart from the perspective of the Papal Zouaves🇻🇦🙏

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

June 18:

Treasures of the Sacred Heart

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In 1867, the nun (Ven. Filomena Ferrer Galcerán) received other enlightenments: “I seemed to see the Heart of Jesus exhausted with fatigue and sadness. This Most Holy Heart was thus going on full of afflictions,

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On this day 159 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in the head the night prior. One of the accused conspirators fled and joined the Papal Zouaves🇻🇦🧵

Initially the plan was to capture President Lincoln, but the plan fell through. A month later the

1/25 assassination was carried out instead. 12 days later, Booth, the assassin, was tracked to a barn and was killed. 8 other conspirators were arrested and convicted. One alleged conspirator remained, John Surratt, he would eventually be found hiding among the Papal Zouaves.

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