Dear Adda I am far from offended. I apologize for misunderstanding your comments.??? I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about people on social media mixing up the two Kings.
I'm no fan of Baudouin, even less so of his wife, but to compare him with Leopold is a bit much.
That being said, I retire from this conversation, Heaven forbid anything I say OFFENDS you again.
All good, dear Moonie.
Emperor Karl was beautified on 4 October 2004, so 20 years ago.
That seems surprisingly frequent. I was expecting something more on the order of centuries.
And the Empress Zita was named Servant of God in 2009, the first step on the road to canonization.
The king is carrying on a tradition in the SRF that stretches back over 300 years ,it will be interesting to see if Leonor will follow in her father and other generations of the Bourbons.
when they married the king new that his future wife was not religious, so i don´t think that the most important thing in their relationship.King Felipe has maintained the staunch religious beliefs and respect for the Church that were likely passed to him from his mother Queen Sofia.
This is in spite of the apparent indifference of his wife and queen, which can't be all that easy in a marriage.
They used to rotate who visited the Basilica on the first Friday of LentThe fact that it is such an ancient Spanish Royal tradition is all the more reason that it would have been nice to see the queen of Spain there along with her husband.
I doubt it; for the majority of her already long life she has been a Roman Catholic.
At the funeral of her late sister Princess Irene I noticed Queen Sofia was explaining parts of the Orthodox Service to her granddaughters.
I swear I read somewhere that Sofia still occasionally attends Orthodox services.
I wouldn't be at all surprised by that if its true.
