To the Kingdom, thus strengthened in its institutions and mature in its culture, those kings entrusted the unequal task of a historic mission: to defend the Catholic truth of Christ against the enemies from the north and the south, against Protestantism and Islamism. Today, when the phrase "intellectual war" holds no meaning for this weak, conformist Catholicism we endure, it will be difficult for many to grasp the historical genius that saved Christianity from being devoured by its enemies, thanks to the sacrifices that, alongside the other peoples of the Spanish Confederation, my ancestors faced courageously.
We were instruments of God. If Protestantism and Islamism were unable to close the circle that would have crushed that Christianity which still survived the European anthropocentric revolution, it was because God used our peoples as instruments of His glory and because our ancestors were able to devote themselves completely to the enterprise of fighting the battles of the Lord in the legendary tercios or on the benches of Trent, in war fleets or in the printing of books.
The highest glory of Neapolitan tradition lies in this missionary spirit, this intellectual war against Islam and against Europe. To ignore or disavow it is to willfully ignore or disown the very essence of the Kingdom of Naples. With this slovenly tendency toward the Creation of Europe, one will only succeed in destroying what remains of the old Parthenopean Kingdom.
* Translated from the Italian of La monarchia tradizionale, Francisco Elías de Tejada, 1963, Controcorrente Edizioni, 2001
