The Martyrs of Castelfidardo / Part II
Reporting of Federici Studies Center
Il 18 September marks the anniversary of the battle fought in 1860 between Loreto and Castelfidardo, which saw the papal army and the Sardinian army pitted against each other, now Italian. We remember the pontifical heroes who sacrificed themselves for the papal cause with moving quotes taken from Mons' four-volume work. Alberto Canestrari,: “The soul of Pius IX as it revealed itself and was understood by the Saints” (Marino, Santa Lucia typography, 1966). Mons. Canestri drew the information from the book of the Marquis Anatole de Ségur: “The Martyrs of Castelfidardo” (Paris 1861).
DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE.
The survivors in a slower pang to die in the lands that the Pope was losing. After some names of those fallen on the battlefield, the illustrious collector of the anthologies of these Martyrs went on to edify the readers with the marvelous examples of fortitude that some of those who did not immediately extinguish in the silence of death offered, with the voice of blood they were able to make the greatness of their souls felt on the hard beds for a few more days, altar of the most tormenting consummation of their holocaust. (Canestrari p.148)