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O'Ratty	Saturday, 4. July 2009, 17:29
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	Well yes, Penfold - quite right: a question of perspective. The world sees only a weak, unimaginative, uxorious autocrat, misguided and reactionary; his wife a neurotic, guilt-ridden German princess, prey to charlatans and misplaced devotion. The Church, the family of the Faith, sees these human imperfections too - but her perspective is not politics or "progress" or any other category of human failure and folly. She sees her martyred children, turned in the end wholly to God in faith, hope, repentance and forgiveness, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit. The Tsarina's conversion might very well have been "difficult" (as compared to that of her sister, our glorious Mother in Christ Grand Duchess St Elizabeth, who warned her off Rasputin right from the start); but there is no uncertainty about her Orthodoxy subsequently. Quote: It was however interesting to read a different perspective but the facts from independent sauces and records from foreign embassies suggest that the truth of his life was far less virtuous. "Everything is true, except the facts" as was observed in another context. "Independent sauces", indeed. Perspective, again? Quote: So hated was Tsar Nicholas that it was impossible for his cousin George the V to risk sending assistance to rescue the Tsar and his family and offer them safe haven in England. George V was afraid that the revolutionaries would use the Tsars presence in England as a rallying cry to lead a revolution in the UK. By the same token, we'll let that one speak for itself. Does it tell us more about Nicholas or his cousin? Perhaps neither... Quote: Of Nicholas and the brutal murder, King George V noted with immense sadness in his personal diary on 25 July 1918: 'May (Queen Mary) and I attended a Service at the Russian Church in Welbeck Street in memory of dear Nicky who I fear was shot last month by the Bolshevists. We can get no details, it was a foul murder. I was devoted to Nicky, who was the kindest of men, a thorough gentleman, who loved his Country and his people' Perhaps "not this man, but Barrabas" hints at a truer "perspective". Edited by O'Ratty, Saturday, 4. July 2009, 18:33.
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa

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