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Monarchists Pray for Louis XVI
23rd January 200800:00
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The Krakow Monarchist Association took part in a mass at the Wawel Cathedral to commemorate the beheading of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, the daily Gazeta Krakowska reported on Jan. 22.
“He wasn’t that great a monarch, but he was a king, and that’s what counts,” association member Piotr Koc told the paper after the mass. “That was the first time that democracy showed its real face.”
The mass was conducted according in Latin in the Romanesque St. L ...
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