Pope St. Pius X
The allocution Vi Ringrazio (Nov. 29, 1911)9
“What shall I say to you now, dear sons of France, who groan
beneath the weight of persecution? The people who made an alliance with God at
the baptismal font of Rheims will repent and return to its first vocation. Her
faults will not remain unpunished, but she will never perish, the daughter of
so many merits, so many sighs, and so many tears.
A day will come, and we hope it will not be far, when
France, like Saul on the road to Damascus, will be surrounded by a heavenly
light and will hear a voice repeating to her, “My daughter, why do you
persecute me?” And to her response, “Who art thou, Lord?” the voice will reply,
“I am Jesus, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goad,
because, in your obstinacy, you destroy yourself.” And she, trembling and
astonished, will say, “Lord, what wouldst thou have me do?” And He will say,
“Rise up, wash the filth that has disfigured you, awaken in your heart those
dormant affections and the pact of our alliance and go, eldest daughter of the
Church, predestined nation, vessel of election, go, as in the past, and carry
my name before all peoples and before the kings of the earth.”
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