History of Western Civilization

Maria Cristina of Savoy to be beatified

May 16, 2013

May 14 – When the King Does Not Fulfill His Promises

May 14, 2013

As Dutch prepare for new king, republicans ask to abolish monarchy – The Christian Science Monitor

May 2, 2013

April 26 – She inspired the Albanians to resist the Turks

April 25, 2013

April 24 – His Emblem Is a Bludgeon

April 22, 2013

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 15, 2013

April 17 – How a duke rescued his country out from crushing debt despite incessant war

April 15, 2013

Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ

March 28, 2013

Is it a resignation or an abdication? – CNN

February 14, 2013

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 7, 2013

January 31 – St. John Bosco Meets His First Noble Patroness

January 31, 2013

January 28 – Great in War and in Peace

January 28, 2013

220 years ago today, this king was put to death – just for being a king

January 21, 2013

January 21 – A Child Shall Lead Them

January 21, 2013

December 23 – The Knights of Aviz and Their Cistercian Founder

December 20, 2012

December 13 – Elected Pope to Fight the Emperor

December 13, 2012

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 29, 2012

How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 26, 2012

Perfume for Queen’s diamond jubilee – The Guardian

November 26, 2012

November 27 – The king who made France “First-born daughter of the Church”

November 26, 2012

November 25 – The Battle of Montgisard

November 22, 2012

Henry the Navigator Inaugurates the Age of Discovery

November 12, 2012

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

November 1, 2012

October 25 – The original hood

October 25, 2012

October 23 – Knight, Lawyer, Governor, Ambassador, Friar, Prisoner, Reformer, Crusader General, Renaissance Saint

October 22, 2012

October 21 – Charles “The Hammer”

October 18, 2012

October 18 – A date which will live in infamy

October 18, 2012

October 17 – The Battle of Cholet

October 15, 2012

September 27 – St. Vincent de Paul had special charity to the impoverished nobility

September 27, 2012

September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 6, 2012

Prince Michael honours Allied soldiers

August 27, 2012

July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving

July 23, 2012

July 16 – 800 years ago today, Alfonso VIII of Castile crushed the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa

July 16, 2012

July 17 – “You Do Not Know What You Do”

July 16, 2012

July 18 – This King Would Not Wear a Crown of Gold Where Jesus Wore a Crown of Thorns

July 16, 2012

Luxemburger Wort: Luxembourg adopts egalitarian Crown succession rights

July 5, 2012

The Guardian: Queen unveils memorial to Bomber Command

July 2, 2012

June 15 – Battle of Lyndanisse during the Northern Crusades

June 14, 2012

June 15 – King John of England signs Magna Carta

June 14, 2012

Video – Emperor Franz Josef is greeted by his Catholic subjects

June 11, 2012

Video: A million Britons cheer Queen’s carriage procession

June 7, 2012

AFP: Britons cheer Queen in poignant jubilee finale

June 7, 2012

Video: Royal family board the Spirit of Chartwell for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

June 4, 2012

The Telegraph: Rare Navy plane to perform flypast at Queen’s Jubilee pageant

May 31, 2012

Video – Slovakian medieval castle burns down

March 26, 2012

January 31 – St. John Bosco Meets His First Noble Patroness

January 30, 2012

January 28 – Fifty Years of War

January 26, 2012

Commentaries on Charlemagne and St. Willehad of Bremen:

January 19, 2012

Saint Joan of Arc: Enduring Power

January 9, 2012

Video – Queen Elizabeth Explains the Reason for the Season

December 22, 2011

Video – Importance of a Marriage to a Princess

December 1, 2011

The Wedding That Saved the English Colonists

December 1, 2011

Video – Siege of Jasna Góra

November 28, 2011

October 21 – In battle they called him “The Hammer”

October 20, 2011

October 18 – A date which will live in infamy

October 17, 2011

October 4 – You Want Chivalry? A More Heavenly Chivalry? Try This.

October 3, 2011

September 12 – The Holy Name of the Virgin Mary; in thanksgiving for the victory over the Turks at Vienna

September 12, 2011

Video – Sobieski at Vienna 1683

September 12, 2011

September 7 – Video: Richard the Lionheart defeats Saladin at Arsuf

September 5, 2011

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 22, 2011

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