The article should possibly be updated as clarification of the marital situation has been apparently made. Unconscious, Col Beltrame was unable to marry his fiancee.

Sigh... apparently also initiated into & attending local free mason lodge. I hope this info gets discredited. 😟

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"Here, at last, is a real candidate for beatification…!"

Indeed! Amidst the garbage canonizations we have lately, this would be a breath of fresh Holy Ghost air.

It may not get far though, given his love for normal Catholicism (e.g. traditional Catholicism).

Wiki lists him as a Freemason. Says he received honors from his lodge {assuming at death}. I don't doubt this as he was 44 and a member of the French military. I don't see how anyone could have risen in the ranks without being a Freemason. What I am curious about tho is if he was a Freemason at death. He converted to the Catholic faith at age 33 and as a French member of the Armed Forces it is highly likely he WAS a Freemason. . Now I'd say most Catholic priests don't care about Freemasonry anymore. A Freemason has been communed regularly at the local NO parish here and I assume that is common everywhere.

I don't know anything about the Canons which he was associated with but I'd find it hard to believe he was left in the dark about Freemasonry by any solid Traditional priest. It would be interesting to investigate this further. I wouldn't put it past the Freemasons to "take credit" of sorts by honoring him even if he left Freemasonry behind or was in the process sometime in the past.

I think Chaput does a pretty good job in painting the picture of a man, a man on the journey of life. You can clearly see the path he is taking, even if his boots slipped off the trail here and there. It is a rough and rocky trail, the trail of life.

He ended his life nobly and in giving the greatest gift a man can possibly give; his all.

RIP Lt Col Beltrame.

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http://www.ncregister.com/d...

There are a lot of freemasons in the french army, but they are despised by their colleagues because they say their FM convictions are pulled by their carrierism.
This doesn't prevent true worthy catholic gentlemen reaching the highest grades and levels of authority, like the last "Chef d'Etat-Major des Armees" Général de Villiers (retd in 2017)

Thanks Jacques.

Freemasonry is very strong in the officer corps of the US Army, too and there are no doubt those who dislike them for the exact same reason you cite. It will be interesting to see what details come out about the FM connection, if any.

As we discussed on the other site, the man's courage and selfless act of heroism, combined with his conversion to the Catholic faith are inspiring.

On certain topics the Wikipedia editors don't appear to tamper much with the facts. But other pages are closely monitored and quickly "edited" from a leftist perspective, and any attempt to correct the the editor's distortions quickly gets airbrushed out, sometimes within hours. I would be skeptical of Wikipedia in general, and especially of any profile page that leaves out known information about an individual's character, conversion and faith.

No mention in the BBC link that Col Beltrame was a Catholic. What a surprise. I did wonder if he was when I heard about him on the news.
What a hero and a wonderful example.
Viva Cristo Rey!

I didn't see anything in the U.S. media re this gentleman. If it was, please post a link. Thank you.

On Mar 23-24, coverage in CNN and USA Today briefly mentioned "a police officer" who offered to take the place of a hostage. The NYT, 3/28/18 actually reported that a funeral Mass took place, but in a style worthy of Pravda and Izvestiya during the Soviet era:
"Colonel Beltrame’s act prompted an outpouring of support and a sense of community from people of different faiths and backgrounds. A Mass held for him in Trèbes on Sunday drew not only Christians but also Jews and Muslims, who saw the attack at the supermarket as an assault on their community and on a place where they all shopped."

https://www.washingtonpost....

Nothing in the article mentions that Beltrame was Catholic, but in The Washington Post I would not expect anything that might be positive toward his faith. (Although The Post does seem to have some esteem, misguided though it might be, for Cardinal Wuerl of Washington. That would be typical of The Post.)

Agreed.

Some of the young French are awake and resisting, thank God.

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Thank you for posting this. What a powerful testimony of faith and the truest charity. A martyr hero and model for our young and old alike!

Men like Lt-Col Beltrame put most of those in the Vatican to shame.

The fruits of the Traditional Mass for the world to see, but I guess the Holy Father won't care to take note.

He takes note; you can be certain that his henchmen take full note and make reports. And he - Bergoglio/Francis - opposes it like the dickens, to use the vernacular.

Is it requescat in pace, or ora pro nobis?

I'll do both

OPN for sure! I read upon on what is "la bénédiction apostolique in articulo mortis" -- he had this. It puts the soul in the state it was at Baptism, at the very moment of death. He is in Heaven. alors, OPN, Lcl Beltrame!
https://fr.aleteia.org/2017...

" Sanctificamini; cras enim faciet Dominus inter vos mirabilia."

" Be ye sanctified, for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you." -Josue lll. 5

Pray for France, we ask of thee, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

"Majorem hac dilectionem nemo habet, ut animam suam ponat quis pro amicis suis." Ioan., 15, 13

Requiescat in Pace.

Actually, the lack of the 's' was merely due to my having been in a hurry, something that often occurs when posting things on the web or in emails.

But I regret it disturbed you.

May the soul of this courageous man rest with God.
As the now old saying goes, "I learned all that I need to know about Islam on 9/11." But, of course, it actually goes much farther back than that. Islam is as Islam does, as Islam has always done. It is the most repugnant of all the false religions of the world, and may the day soon come when every stain of it will be scoured from every square centimeter of Christendom, and may as many as possible of those who currently adhere to that vile creed be truly converted to Christ and become true brothers and sisters. As for those who persist in mohammedism--get them out of Christendom. Now.

May the day soon come, yes, but humanly speaking things do not look bright, especially for western Europe. Politicians are foolishly allowing Muslims to flood into their countries. "Native" Europeans have a birth rate below replacement level in many countries, while Muslim couples are encouraged by their leaders to have three or more children, above the replacement level. Take the two factors together, and Europe is on course to become majority Muslim before too many generations pass. Islam may then surpass secularism as the force which will work against Christianity. God knows best -- I certainly don't -- but again, humanly speaking things do not look bright.

No, things do not look bright right now, but anger is building and the European people are getting sick of seeing those parasitic mohammedan savages everywhere, acting as if they owned the place, and sick of their own governments legislating Europeans into 2nd class citizens in favor of the parasitic mohammedan savages. One day, not far off, I think we will suddenly hear the collective roar of the true European patriots who love their countries and have rediscovered the value of their threatened national culture, take to the streets after the one-outrage-too-many occurs--whatever that may be--and then the rotten EU will crumble as quickly as thoroughly did the Soviet bloc, and an enlightened nationalism will begin to awaken throughout Europe.
This is my hope, anyway.

I had never heard this song. It is sobering and soul-steeling: the very antithesis of the music for Novus Ordo Masses.

St. Jeanne d'Arc, pray for France and for the Church.