MAGNIFICAT: THE COVER OF THE MONTH-A Beautiful Love Story by Pierre-Marie Dumont Magnificat The cover of the month The destiny of this Virgin and Child, a work by the famous Scottish painter William …More
MAGNIFICAT: THE COVER OF THE MONTH-A Beautiful Love Story
by Pierre-Marie Dumont
Magnificat The cover of the month
The destiny of this Virgin and Child, a work by the famous Scottish painter William Dyce (1806–1864), is closely connected to a beautiful royal romance which has never ceased to stir the hearts of the English people.
When Queen Victoria inherited the British throne in 1837, just a few weeks after her 18th birthday, she was a passionate young woman, both open-minded and faithful to the highest human and Christian values. Immediately, according to the custom of the times, her mother and the government busied themselves with finding a suitable husband for a Queen of England. They chose her cousin, Prince Ernest, the older son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. But then Victoria flatly refused. The world would discover during her long reign (63 years) that she was a woman who knew what she wanted. And what she wanted in this instance was to marry for love. Now she was in love …More
by Pierre-Marie Dumont
Magnificat The cover of the month
The destiny of this Virgin and Child, a work by the famous Scottish painter William Dyce (1806–1864), is closely connected to a beautiful royal romance which has never ceased to stir the hearts of the English people.
When Queen Victoria inherited the British throne in 1837, just a few weeks after her 18th birthday, she was a passionate young woman, both open-minded and faithful to the highest human and Christian values. Immediately, according to the custom of the times, her mother and the government busied themselves with finding a suitable husband for a Queen of England. They chose her cousin, Prince Ernest, the older son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. But then Victoria flatly refused. The world would discover during her long reign (63 years) that she was a woman who knew what she wanted. And what she wanted in this instance was to marry for love. Now she was in love …More