 Complete the following phrase:  King Albert was a devout Catholic. Many stories illustrate his deep and tender piety. For instance, when his former tutor General De Grunne, in his old age, entered the Benedictine monastery of Maredsous in Belgium, King Albert wrote a letter to him in which he spoke of the joy of giving oneself to God. He said: May you spend many years at Maredsous in the supreme comfort of soul that is given to natures touched by grace, by faith in Gods infinite power and confidence in His goodness. To another friend, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, a former prime minister of China who became a Catholic monk in Belgium, Albert wrote: Consecrating oneself wholly to the service of Our Lord gives, to those touched by grace, the peace of soul which is the supreme happiness here below. Albert used to tell his children: As you nourish your body, so you should nourish your soul. In an interesting meditation on what he viewed as the harm that would result if Christian ideals were abandoned in Belgium, he said: Every time society has distanced itself from the Gospel, which preached humility, fraternity, and peace, the people have been unhappy, because the pagan civilisation of ancient Rome, which they wanted to replace it with, is based only on pride and the abuse of force Commemorative speech for the war dead of the 