"Who Is Like God?"

The Battle Cry of St. Michael the Archangel

In obedience to the voice of duty, King Orri, in the “Auberi le Bourgoing,” died as Regulus died, a thousand times more gloriously than the hero of antiquity, exclaiming in his terrible agony, “God forbid that I should betray my king and my God!” It was in obedience to the voice of duty solely, that in another of our poems (one little known) the aged Ameri of Narbonne, who had lived a hundred years, spotless and fearless, stood boldly up before the Moslem and refused to acknowledge Mahomet. They beat the aged man with briars and rods, they cut into his living flesh, they prepared the wood pile to burn him, and the Narbonnais could hear the crackling of the flames which were so soon to devour him. Nothing daunted him; and perceiving on the ramparts his wife, Ermengart, who was a weeping spectator of this horrible punishment, he cried to her: “Let me die; but for the love of God, the son of Saint Mary, do not surrender the town.”

The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry

I. Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches, and shalt observe all its directions.

II. Thou shalt defend the Church.

III. Thou shalt respect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.

IV. Thou shalt love the country in the which thou wast born.

V. Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.

VI. Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation, and without mercy.

VII.Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.

VIII.Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful to thy pledged word.

IX. Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to everyone.

X. Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.