The Queen's Tragedy Willa Cather a renowned poet and mystic

a renowned poet and mystic

and everywhere her gracious ordering manifests itself

a place of familiarity and miracle alike

(Pope Saint Pius V)

The Queen's Tragedy Willa Cather a renowned poet and mysticBy Robert Hugh Benson Queen Mary I is determined to undo the destruction wrought by her father, King Henry VIII: the despoilment of the Roman Catholic Church in England, the divisions sewn amongst the English people, the desertion from Papal authority for supreme independence. Her reign, Mary avers, will see the right order restored. Only then will peace and unity again be found in England. Peace and unity: beautiful ends so often sought by brutal