Interview With Blessed Emperor Karl’s Great-Grandson on the Blessed’s Feastday

His Imperial Royal Highness Imre von Habsburg-Lothringen, archduke of Austria and his American wife Kathleen married before Monsignor Charles Pope in Washington DC.

National Catholic Register, K.V. Hurley: Sometimes it is hard to believe that saints were once flesh and blood: So often we see church statues of the blessed that look unreal. Harder still is it to recall that some of these saints had children and that today their descendants are living, breathing men and women. St. Gianna Molla is one such example.

His Imperial Royal Highness Imre von Habsburg-Lothringen, archduke of Austria, is the great-grandson of the last emperor and king of Austria-Hungary, Blessed Karl (1887-1922), and his wife, Servant of God Empress Zita (1892-1989). So how does it feel to have a Blessed in the family?

“Holiness is unfortunately not hereditary!” Read here in full.