Hilaire Belloc and a High Mass

In October of 1927 Hilaire Belloc first published his book, Towns of Destiny, which contains his grateful depiction of a unique and unrepeatable event that so unexpectedly manifested itself to him in southern France on the High Feast of the Holy Ghost: a sacred action in a very special setting. In my view, this book often reveals to the attentive reader some of our beloved Belloc’s deepest thoughts and resonant, as well as animating, convictions. One small test of this judgment, and an initial measure of its sufficiency, will be found if we consider only his thirty-second Chapter, entitled “Narbonne.”

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