The Heroic Carthusian Who Died with a Rifle in His Hand

CartusiaLover.Wordpress.com (October 12) has told the story of Carthusian Father Pedro de Mortisac.

• He was the last lover of Mata Hari, the famous Dutch dancer, actress and secret agent, and witnessed her execution by the French in 1917.

• Belonging to a very wealthy French family, Mortisac was educated by the Jesuits, and became a womaniser.

• A teenage girl which he had used and discarded committed suicide.

• After Mata Hari's death Mortisac sold everything: a chateau near Paris, a country house near London, and a villa in San Sebastián.

• Before entering the Miraflores Charterhouse, Burgos, Spain, around 1920, he wandered homeless for days in the suburbs.

• Later he was transferred to the Aula Dei Charterhouse, Zaragoza, which was attacked in July 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, by Communist criminals, now glorified by the Western regimes.

• The Carthusians were informed of the impending assault and the prior ordered the monks to dress as civilians and to shave their tonsures and beards.

• The younger monks tried to save the objects of worship, and negotiated so that the Carthusian monastery would not be burnt down.

• According to an unconfirmed story, Mortisac refused to leave and defended the house of God with a rifle, but was murdered.

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foward

2Oct 22, 2023

It is not the mission of the religious to bear arms. They can support the defenders of religious buildings and orders, as well as the homeland, but not fight directly.

Credo .

Oct 23, 2023

The Jesuits were instrumental in the spreading of 'Liberation Theology" throughout Latin America.

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Oct 22, 2023

I love the Carthusian Order. It is a shame that they suffered too, after the disaster of Vatican II. I think they had 20 monasteries before Vatican II, and now they have 17 and about 300 monks. They had almost 600 before Vatican II.
I did a lot of research on the Church recently, helping a priest write a large scholarly book on the disaster and collapse of religious life after Vatican II.
But I found out that Vatican II was nothing, compared to the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, and then the evil reign of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Joseph II, who must have hated the Catholic Church even though he remained one. He was a classic example of what they call the period known as the "Enlightenment". He was largely a secularist, and ordered closed thousands of monasteries and religious houses that according to his "enlightened" thinking, served no usefull purpose.
The French Revolution, and the reign of Emperor Joseph (the patron of Mozart), closed 100 Carthusian monasteries, not to mention scores of others of many Orders, in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Polad, Austria, Hungary and Italy. Very sad.