in the inmost cell of the foetid termitary of power, Diocletian was comsumed by huge boredom and sickly turned towards his childhood’s home.” ( Helena-Chapter 5-page 100-my emphasis added.)Įvelyn Waugh’s Words of the Emperor Constantine with His Now Christian Mother, Helena: But, out of sight on the shores of the Propontis, …. In fragments and whispers we get news of other saints in the prison camps of Eastern and South Eastern Europe, of cruelty and degradation more frightful than anything in Tudor England and of the same pure light shining in the darkness, uncomprehended. The hunted, trapped, murdered priest is amongst us again, and the voice of Campion comes to us across us the centuries as though he were walking at our side.” (Page x of the two-fold Preface to the 1948 American Edition of Edmund Campion.)Įvelyn Waugh on Saint Helena and Her Gradual Development of Her Cultivation and Her Womanhood: “The work of empire prospered, frontiers were everywhere restored and extended, treasure accumulated. Waugh’s Saint Helena and Saint Edmund CampionĮvelyn Waugh on Saint Edmund Campion (1946, 1948): “It should be read as a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness….The martyrdom of Father Pro in Mexico re-enacted Campion’s. Power Without Grace in a Foetid Termitary of Power: Hicksonfamily Catholic Faith, Literature December 5, 2022 4 Minutes Power Without Grace in a Foetid Termitary of Power: Insights from Evelyn Waugh
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