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January 16 – When the Emperor insisted that the lapsed be readmitted to communion without penance, one man stood in his way. This is his story.

January 16, 2025

Saint Pius V Was Born Into a Guelph Noble Family That Persecution Dragged Into Poverty

January 16, 2025

January 17 – Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

January 16, 2025

January 12 – Tyrolese priest and patriot

January 9, 2025

January 6 – St. Joan of Arc was born on this day over 600 years ago

January 6, 2025

January 7 – Ordered bandits of royal blood to hang from the highest mast

January 6, 2025

Aging Gracefully or Shamefully

January 2, 2025

St. Louis and The Holy Name Of God

December 30, 2024

December 29 – His Staff Did More Damage Than His Sword

December 26, 2024

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 19, 2024

December 20 – Abraham

December 19, 2024

December 16 – St. Adelaide: Most Important Woman of Her Century

December 16, 2024

December 16 – Afonzo de Albuquerque

December 16, 2024

Isabella the Liberator

December 16, 2024

December 11 – Pope Falsely Accused of Adultery

December 9, 2024

December 6 – Good St. Nicholas

December 5, 2024

December 7 – The People Acclaimed Him as Bishop Even Though He Was Unbaptized

December 5, 2024

Eleanor of Castile: Daughter of St. Ferdinand and Much Loved Queen of England

November 28, 2024

November 30 – His name means manhood, or valour

November 28, 2024

November 25 – The day a 16 year old invalid and a handful of men defeated a huge professional army

November 25, 2024

November 26 – How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 25, 2024

Isabel the Catholic is buried in Granada, the city she conquered for Christianity

November 25, 2024

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

November 25, 2024

Christ the King? Or Christ the President?

November 21, 2024

November 20 – St. Edmund the Martyr

November 18, 2024

November 13 – One of the Great Popes of the Middle Ages

November 11, 2024

November 10 – Pope Paul III

November 7, 2024

For saving her people, she was made their judge

October 31, 2024

October 28 – Saint, Soldier, Statesman

October 28, 2024

Baroness Herbert of Lea: a convert to the Catholic Faith

October 28, 2024

Hammer of Muslim invaders

October 21, 2024

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

October 21, 2024

Emperor Marcian

October 17, 2024

Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Capetian Widow

October 14, 2024

How General Lee shared his meager rations with his prisoners

October 10, 2024

King Confessor

October 10, 2024

D. John’s calm assessment as the Turkish Armada is sighted: “There’s no time for anything but fighting”

October 7, 2024

October 3 – Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

October 3, 2024

October 3 – Mother Théodore Guérin

October 3, 2024

October 1 – The martial and pious death of Don John of Austria: “A man sent by God”

September 30, 2024

General Lee’s one rule for students: “Be a gentleman”

September 26, 2024

Good King Wenceslaus

September 26, 2024

Saint Michael the Archangel, Model of the Perfect Knight

September 26, 2024

September 19 – St. Januarius

September 19, 2024

September 20 – “Threats do not terrify me”

September 19, 2024

The pope who exacted tribute from the Mohammedan ruler of Tunis

September 16, 2024

Noble calm in all controversy, even when correcting the pope

September 16, 2024

Charlemagnes give rise to Rolands

September 16, 2024

St. Pulcheria, Empress, and her husband Marcian

September 9, 2024

Milkos Zrinyi

September 5, 2024

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

September 2, 2024

September 4 – Pope Saint Boniface I

September 2, 2024

At the helm during the French Revolution

August 29, 2024

Commentaries on how Don Alonso Peres de Guzman sacrificed his own son rather than surrender to the Muslims

August 26, 2024

August 28 – Restless Heart

August 26, 2024

Jean Parisot de La Valette

August 19, 2024

August 15 – Prester John

August 15, 2024

His incorrupt right hand is treasured as the most sacred relic in Hungary

August 15, 2024

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 12, 2024

August 3 – The day the bishop cursed his country

August 1, 2024

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