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Show The Catholic King Alfred. The celebration of the millenary of the death of King Alfred the Great has served the only purpose such celebra- tions usually serve by making the pub-lie pub-lie better acquainted with his life- ', work and his character. Dozens of volumes about Alfred have issued from the press in England and thi3 country, not to mention the magazine articles; and it is pleasant to notice how enthusiastic en-thusiastic are the tributes to this typical typi-cal Catholic king of the olden time: Even Voltaire forgot to sneer when speaking of him. "I do not know," he wrote, "that there ever was upon th? earth a man more worthy of the respect re-spect of posterity than Alfred the Great." But to our mind the most eloquent elo-quent tribute ever paid to the saintly ruler. who began his kingly duties each, day by devoutly assisting at Mass. is the fact that in the oldest manuscript (Parker) of the Saxon Chronicles a cross is invariably marked on the mar- v J gin of the page wherever the name of . Alfred occurs. Ave Maria. |