12 Days of Christmas (x) Times 2 December 2014
Forgiveness to GO-GO
Forgive through the impossible pain and blood
-- and thereby stop it then, at the beginning,
this bloody wheel.
Elizabeth spent all the days before the burial in ceaseless prayer. On her husband's tombstone she wrote: 'Father, release them, they know not what they do.' She understood the words of the Gospels heart and soul, and on the eve of the funeral she demanded to be taken to the prison where Kalyayev was being held. Brought into his cell, she asked, 'Why did you kill my husband?' 'I killed Sergei Alexandrovich because he was a weapon of tyranny. I was taking revenge for the people.' 'Do not listen to your pride. Repent... and I will beg the Sovereign to give you your life. I will ask him for you. I myself have already forgiven you.' On the eve of revolution, she had already found a way out; forgiveness! Forgive through the impossible pain and blood -- and thereby stop it then, at the beginning, this bloody wheel. By her example, poor Ella appealed to society, calling upon the people to live in Christian faith. 'No!" replied Kalyayev. 'I do not repent. I must die for my deed and I will... My death will be more useful to my cause than Sergei Alexandrovich's death.' Kalyayev was sentenced to death. 'I am pleased with your sentence,' he told the judges. 'I hope that you will carry it out just as openly and publicly as I carried out the sentence of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Learn to look the advancing revolution right in the face.
WIKIPEDIA - Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elisabet…
Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
www.mmom.ru
Painting
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna
painted by Friedrich August von Kaulbach
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