Requiescat in Pace, Michael Davies

Michael Davies has passed on. No firm details just yet, except that he has, in fact, passed away.

Davies was one of the grandfathers of the Traditionalist Movement, a brilliant, articulate, well-read, and lucid writer who did more than his fair share to present the world with a defense of Traditional Catholicism.

His list of published books and pamphlets include:

* Cranmer's Godly Order
* Pope John's Council
* Pope Paul's New Mass
* Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre (3 volumes)
* The Order of Melchisedech
* Partisans of Error
* Religious Liberty and the Second Vatican Council
* The Tridentine Mass
* The Roman Rite Destroyed
* St. Athanasius: Defender of the Faith
* The Liturgical Revolution
* Mass Facing the People
* The Reign of Christ the King
* Liturgical Shipwreck
* Newman Against the Liberals

Add to that list several hundred articles, essays, lectures, tapes, etc., and you have a life well-spent in the defense of the faith.

He has now gone on to receive his eternal reward for his hard work; many of us have benefitted from his work - let us show our appreciation by praying for Michael today, and tomorrow, and the next day, that his soul will find eternal rest, and that he will stand at his particular judgment.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine;
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem sempiternam