On the Ruin of Britain

This little known sixth century classic is one which deserves much greater readership, particularly in today's apostate West. There are print copies available, but alas, they do not include the full work named above. It can be downloaded free of charge, thanks to Project Gutenberg, at http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Gildas .

"For what can there either be, or be committed, more disgraceful or more unrighteous in human affairs, than to refuse to show fear to God or affection to one's own countrymen, and (without detriment to one's faith) to refuse due honor to those of higher dignity, to cast off all regard to reason, human and divine, and, in contempt of heaven and earth, to be guided by one's own sensual inventions?"

So wrote St. Gildas in his De Excidio Britanniae, as the book is known in Latin.

I will not quote at length from this work, because it merits reading on its own and is short enough and so readily obtainable that to do more than recommend the book to you is to do both you and the book a disservice. Suffice it to say that this long-neglected classic is another that will have a place of honor on the shelves of Leibowitz Abbey. As readers of this and the website From the Catacombs (soon to be renamed as To the Catacombs) know, St. Gildas is the avatar used by the author of these web sites, which should convey the esteem in which he is held.