Traditionalists without Tradition
by Don Ugo Carandino
Press release no. 10/19 of the 4 February 2019, Saint Andrew Corsini
Traditionalists without Tradition
Opportune Importune editorial (information letter from the Casa San Pio) n. 35
In this period I am reading the life of Saint Joan Antide Thouret (1765-1826), written by Msgr. Francois A little. The religious saint, founder of the Sisters of Charity (congregation that was appreciated by anti-liberal rulers such as Carlo Felice of Savoy and Francis IV of Modena) and canonized by Pius XI, lived through the tragedy of the French Revolution. Thanks to the happy pen of Msgr. A little, the reader can grasp all aspects of the drama that shocked the life of the Church and society in that period. What is most striking is the firmness with which almost all the faithful deserted the masses of the constitutional clergy (who had sworn allegiance to the schismatic "Civil Constitution of the Clergy") and turned, at the risk of his life, to clandestine masses celebrated in the woods, in the cellars or stables by the "refractory" priests (who refused the oath imposed by the revolutionaries). Read More





