Thursday, February 21, 2008

Radegund had a MESSED UP FAMILY!

I'd like to pose a thought to ponder.

In our current society, during the times we live in, pyschological trauma plays an important role in the upbringing, development, and overall basis of our lives. We write off explanations to serious matters like sexual assault and abuse to be the cause of emotional scarring lingering from childhood.

My question is this: how does St. Radegund function the way that she does without a total pyschiatric breakdown? Follow me, her father was murdered by her uncle, who ended up caring for her and her brother. Then her brother was murdered because he posed a threat to the throne, and Radegund fled to become a saint. How does someone surrounded with that much immediate tragedy stay sane?

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