King Philip’s Devotion
One day while the Blessed Sacrament was being carried a great distance to a sick person, Philip II, King of Spain, accompanied It all the way on foot. The priest, observing this, asked him if he were not tired.
“Tired!” he replied. “No: behold my servants wait on me day and night, and never have I heard one of them complain of being tired. Shall I, then, complain of fatigue when I am in company with my Lord and my God, Whom I can never sufficiently serve and honor?”
The Catechism In Examples Vol. IV By the Rev. D. Chisholm Pg. 197.
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 500
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