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Garcia Moreno Paperback – August 21, 2006

by Augustine Berthe (Author)
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Gabriel Garcia Moreno(1821-1875) was a model Catholic president of Ecuador. He courageously founded a Republic upon Catholic principles and publicly consecrated it to the Sacred Heart, and for this he was martyred by paid assassins. This biography by Fr. Berthe is the most complete and authoritative one in existence. It has been out of print in English since 1889 when it was first published.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BookSurge Publishing (August 21, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419630431
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419630439
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.93 x 8 inches
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Brilliant book giving one important insight into one of history's most important times. You cannot stop once you have started.
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Patti Petersen
5.0 out of 5 stars The hero of Ecuador, who out of chaos formed a truly Catholic modern State!
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013
The situation in Ecuador facing Garcia Moreno when he stepped into the presidency of that country was one of economic and political chaos. The almost exclusively Catholic country had been tyrannized over by liberals and Freemasons who between them had disorganized the Church, emptied the coffers of the state to enrich themselves, and impoverished the people to finance numerous revolutions. Upon assuming the presidency, Garcia Moreno found himself confronted with an empty treasury, a liberal congress, and no end of revolutionaries waiting their chance to turn the country upside down for their own gain. In thirteen years he single-handedly set the country back on its feet politically, economically, and above all, spiritually. A true lover of freedom, his motto was: “Liberty for everyone and for everything save for evil and evildoers.”

During his time in the office of president, Garcia Moreno passed laws defining the state religion as Catholicism and forbidding the entrance of other sects into the country; renewed diplomatic ties with the Vatican and signed a concordant granting immunity to the Church; worked with the Ecuadorian bishops to establish new dioceses and to reform the Church in Ecuador; consecrated the country of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; raised honest and capable men to positions in government and kept strict watch to maintain a government without graft; eliminated an enormous national debt; built carriage roads to boost economic growth; and reorganized education in Ecuador so that it was based on Catholic principles and taught primarily by Religious.

It should come as no surprise that so truly a Catholic statesman as Garcia Moreno had many enemies. For thirteen years he held them in check, outmaneuvering them and avoiding the numerous traps they set for him. In 1875 Garcia Moreno was elected president of Ecuador for another term. It would prove to be his last; the Masonic lodges having condemned him to death. On August 6,1875, Garcia Moreno was attacked by an assassin wielding a machete, who wounded him grievously. Other conspirators fired at the stricken president with revolvers. Garcia Moreno was carried into the Cathedral where a surgeon tried in vain to staunch his gaping wounds. After forgiving his attackers and receiving the Sacraments of the Church, the heroic president expired. His last words were: “God does not die!”

Such is the heroic life detailed in the book Garcia Moreno by Reverend Father Augustine Berthe. In addition to the stirring text, the book includes photographs taken recently. Garcia Moreno is truly a saint for our times. His life cannot help but stir the courage of every Catholic in the world today, and his accomplishments as President of Ecuador prove that it is possible to govern nations by Catholic Social Principles.
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Carol Byrne
5.0 out of 5 stars A book of monumental importance
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014
When Fr Kimball produced this beautifully bound and illustrated book, he did much more than present a biography of the President of Ecuador, Gabriel Garcia Moreno (1821-1875) or a mere history of his tenure of office. He has offered us something more precious: an insight into the past in order to illuminate the present. For the historical events surrounding the life of Garcia Moreno were foretold by Our Lady in the 1600s when she appeared to a Spanish nun, Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres of the Order of the Immaculate Conception in Quito, and spoke of “a truly Catholic President” who would consecrate Ecuador to the Sacred Heart and die as a martyr. Pope Pius IX declared that Gabriel Garcia Moreno “died a victim of the Faith and Christian Charity for his beloved country.”

The book chronicles these events in great detail with authentic contemporary evidence collected by Fr Berthe who lays bare the plot to kill Garcia Moreno: he was assassinated to assuage the vengeful bloodlust of local Freemasonic groups who had been continually thwarted by his re-establishment of Catholic social order in Ecuador.

Most of the book is devoted to the remarkable achievements of Garcia Moreno who inherited a country ravaged by revolution, anarchy and corruption. Within the years of his presidency, he reconstructed it along Catholic lines. Almost the first presidential act was to sign a concordat with the Holy See to protect the Church’s privileges in society. This was followed by a new Constitution which made Catholicism the official religion of the State.

That is precisely what the Social Kingship of Christ entails, that Christ and the laws of the Church be officially recognized by a nation. We can contrast this situation with the present pluralistic, religiously indifferent society deliberately brought about by the Religious Liberty policy of Vatican II. The result is that today not one nation in the world upholds the Catholic Church officially, which has left the Church with no more status or authority in the public life of any country than other religions or atheism.

Garcia Moreno refused to give freedom to evil and to those who wished to attack the Church. He rejected the liberal ideas of the Freemasons who were seeking a complete separation of Church and State, and dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by a government act in 1873. This illustrates the defining feature of his regime: the union of Church and State to guarantee the spiritual and material wellbeing of the people.

In the secular sphere, Garcia Moreno set Ecuador on the road to prosperity after decades of revolution and corruption that had bankrupted the country. He reduced taxes and established the Mortgage Credit Bank and several Savings Banks to enable commerce and industry to flourish. He developed roads and railways, founded new schools and universities, encouraged scientific research, improved prison conditions and reformed the judiciary and military.

As a result of his policies, not only were morals and good customs restored, but property was secure, the nation prospered and social conditions improved, and all this was achieved without compromising with the Revolution. That is why Pope Leo XIII hailed Garcia Moreno’s country as “the model of a Christian state.”

But Fr Berthe’s account, excellent though it undoubtedly is, is incomplete without the other half of Our Lady’s prophesy issued at the same time to Mother Mariana de Torres which effectively links the 19th-century Catholic Statesman of Ecuador to the coming of a “Prelate” in the 20th century to complement his work. As Fr Kimball points out:

“Our Lady prophesied for the twentieth century, saying explicitly that during the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century, errors would become more and more widespread in Holy Church, placing the Church in a catastrophic situation. Morals would become corrupt and the Faith would disappear.”

This has obviously come to pass as we see that ever since Vatican II the Holy Catholic Church has been afflicted by a crisis of world proportion, heresies abound, the priesthood is wracked by abuses, the light of the Faith is almost extinguished and morals are widely corrupted among Catholics. A Prelate in the 20th century who had the foresight and courage to publicly oppose this wave of apostasy and impiety was Archbishop Lefebvre, Founder of the Society of St Pius X.

In his commentary, Fr Kimball brings convincing evidence to establish a close parallel between the fate of Garcia Moreno and Archbishop Lefebvre. Both suffered at the hands of Freemasonry, the former shedding his blood for the Faith, the latter undergoing a dry martyrdom through unmerited persecution, ostracism and eventually excommunication.

Fr Kimball explains:

“Likewise in 1978 Archbishop Lefebvre foresaw who would be the motivators of his excommunication ten years later: "If one day they shall excommunicate us because we remain faithful to these theses we shall consider ourselves excommunicated by Freemasonry. Our consolation will be that we remain in the company of God and of all the martyrs who have given their lives to keep the Faith…

Just as Archbishop Lefebvre drew the wrath of the fifth column of Freemasonry within the Church by consecrating four bishops in 1988 as the necessary means of passing down the Catholic priesthood to future generations, so García Moreno had especially angered the Masons by his exemplary Concordat of 1862.”

In making this book easily available to Catholics today, Fr Kimball has performed a double tour de force: he has kept alive the memory of two outstanding Catholic figures who stood against the Church’s enemies and suffered tragic consequences for their pains. It is a task of monumental importance, for Christendom is now a lost memory. The general public, not just Catholics, need to have access to this information so as to see the underlying reasons for the ills of modern society. They may then be persuaded to look in the right direction for solutions to seemingly insoluble problems and recognise that true peace can only be achieved with the Kingship of Christ. Fr Kimball certainly deserves credit for his wisdom in publishing historical truths which are an inspiration and prophetic sign for our times.
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Bob
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Man
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2012
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Good read, This book gives some insight of what kind of man Garcia was, the difficulties he faced and the deep spiritual faith he (Garcia) had a president for our time. Would recommend this book to any political person.
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Nelda
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book! My son read this book and thoroughly ...
Reviewed in Canada on April 23, 2017
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Excellent book! My son read this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. This President was prophesized by Our Lady.
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