The Devil’s Most Effective Foe
Not even the casual observer of Salvation History can fail to conclude that Our Lord loves the unlikely.
- He chose a teenage girl from the backwater of Nazareth to bring the King of Kings into the world.
- He called a fisherman who was, as Chesterton put it, “a snob and a shuffler,” to helm His Church.
- When the successor of that fisherman had grown too comfortable in Avignon, He sent the diminutive dyer’s daughter from Siena to tell him to be a man: “Esto vir.”
- When He had had enough of England’s depredations of the Eldest Daughter of the Church, He picked a peasant girl who had never fired a bow or ridden a horse to lead the army of liberation.
- He found a farmer who deeply loved Our Lady to convert Mexico from a land of devil worshipers into the greatest Christian country in the New World.
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