Louis XVI and Nicholas II, two monarchs killed by the same ideology

 

I remember when after my meeting with my doctor in the hospital, I saw a Filipina woman in my doctor's room watching the Disney live action Cinderella (2015) on her phone. Then suddenly out of nowhere, an Eastern Orthodox chant to Tsar Nicholas (who is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox) played in my mind. The message was clear: While many young people are devoted to pop culture, no one remembers the great European monarchs, many of whom were Catholics! It so happened that it was November 7, the anniversary of the anti-Catholic Bolshevik revolution. So, here is a brief analysis of two European monarchs killed by the same ideology stemming from the French Revolution:

Louis XVI, King of France of Navarre was born on Aug. 23, 1754 the same day a battle broke out between Spanish and Christian Filipinos with Moro Muslims in Langaran River, Mindanao. He was named Louis Auguste. His grandfather was Louis XV while his father was Louis, Dauphin of France. Dauphin of France is the heir apparent of France which is like Prince of Wales for the British. In 1765, his father, the Dauphin died of tuberculosis and he became the Dauphin. In 1770, at the age of 15, he married the 14 year old Austrian archduchess Marie Antoinette. In 1774, Louis XV died and his grandson Louis became Louis XVI. He was crowned King of France in Reims in June 1775. In 1778, he bore his first child, Marie Therese Charlotte, whom I have a strong devotion to. In 1781, he helped the Americans gain independence from the British. In 1789, the French Revolution broke out when an angry Parisian mob stormed the Bastille Fortress. In 1791, he and his family tried to escape France but were caught. In 1792, another mob stormed the Tuileries Palace, and in 1793, Louis XVI was sentenced to death. On January 21, 1793, the day after Santo Nino de Cebu's feast on the other side of the world in Spanish Philippines, Louis XVI climbed the scaffold to the guillotine. Before he was executed, he cried out, ''Gentlemen, I die innocent of my crimes, and I hope that my blood would cement the good fortune of the French.'' Henri Sanson, the executioner, later pulled the blade, and the people screamed, ''Long live the Revolution!'' In March 1793, in Vendee region, a group of Catholics rose up against the Masonic French Revolution. On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette, was sent to the guillotine. Around the same time, Philippe Egalite, from the House of Orleans who voted for the death of his cousin paid the ultimate price by being guillotined. In 1794, Madame Elisabeth, Louis XVI's sister was guillotined and in the same year, Robespierre was guillotined. In 1795, Louis XVII, Louis XVI's son died in prison, and 16 year old Marie Therese was the only survivor. Many were killed under Robespierre's orders, via guillotine, shooting, drowning, bayoneting. Thanks to the Masonic ideas of Voltaire, Rosseau and the Enlightenment. Louis and Antoinette were buried in the Saint Denis Church on January 21, 1815.

More than 120 years after the evil and wicked French Revolution, the Russian Bolshevik Revolution broke out in Petrograd in 1917. It was still the same ideology of the French Revolution but under the new name of Communism founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Its new Robespierre was Vladimir Lenin, who like Robespierre killed many innocent people. Just like Louis XVI, the Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II was executed alongside his family in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918, the same anniversary of the martyrdom of the Carmelites of Compiegne. Unlike Marie Therese, no member of the Russian royal family survived, including a nun named Elizabeth Feodorovna who was the sister in law of Nicholas. Many Russian Orthodox Christians similar to the Vendee rose up against the Bolsheviks, and the Russian White Army was formed named after the Whites who were the monarchists of France. Just like French Emigres in Russia during the 1790s, there were many Russian Emigres in France. Unlike Robespierre who paid for his crimes, Lenin never paid for his crimes and was put on display in a mausoleum after he died. Stalin, his successor continued Lenin's horrible legacy by killing millions of people. And as what Our Lady at Fatima prophesied, Russia spread her errors throughout the world, brainwashing them with communism, including Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Vietnam and Latin America. Even some so called Catholic schools in the Philippines are promoting communist ideology. 

I remember during a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Cebu (named after the original one in Spain), when eating in a restaurant near the church, founded in 1863, I watched documentaries on Nicholas II as well as that of Louis XVI. Later when I went to the church, I contemplated on a statue of Father Leon Inchausti, a Spanish Augustinian Recollect priest who used to be assigned to that church, he was killed by communists during the Spanish Civil War of 1936. 

Conclusion:

Both the French Jacobin and Russian Bolshevik Revolutions of 1789 and 1917 are the same ideology but with different coats of paint. Both of their ideologies were condemned by Pius VI, Pius XI and Pius XII, who said the Catholic who becomes a communist becomes an apostate.