History of Western Civilization

July 24 – Fearless, Courageous, Unswerving

July 24, 2014

July 26 – In memoriam: Princess Tatiana Von Metternich – who called Hitler a “stuffed doll”

July 24, 2014

July 21 – Fearless in every sense

July 21, 2014

July 17 – The day the Tsar was murdered

July 17, 2014

July 18 – This soldier of hell became a soldier of heaven

July 17, 2014

July 16 – Alfonso VIII of Castile crushes the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa

July 14, 2014

July 16 – Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 14, 2014

July 13 – The Crusaders attack Jerusalem

July 10, 2014

July 4 – Unsung American Hero

July 3, 2014

100 Years Ago: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Triggered World War

June 30, 2014

June 30 – How One Humble Servant Transformed the New York Upper Class

June 30, 2014

What is Feudalism?

June 23, 2014

June 25 – Simon de Montfort

June 23, 2014

June 19 – Execution of second group of those who believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

June 19, 2014

June 17 – Sobieski

June 16, 2014

June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality

June 16, 2014

El Cid

June 16, 2014

June 15 – The Northern Crusades

June 12, 2014

June 15, 1215 – Magna Carta

June 12, 2014

June 9 – A simple palace servant, God confided to her the destiny of nations

June 9, 2014

How Feudalism reformed and revived monasticism: Cluny

June 2, 2014

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 29, 2014

May 23 – St. John Baptist de Rossi

May 22, 2014

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 22, 2014

May 14 – The Right to Revolt

May 12, 2014

May 3 – Finding of the Holy Cross

May 1, 2014

May 4 – They believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

May 1, 2014

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 14, 2014

April 2 – St. Francis of Paola and the Bartlett Pear

March 31, 2014

March 26 – One of the distinguished men of his age

March 24, 2014

March 8 – He was not a prince, but they buried him as one

March 6, 2014

February 18 – Confronted the Emperor and annulled the Robber Council of Ephesus

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth

February 17, 2014

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 6, 2014

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

January 30, 2014

January 28 – Larochejacquelein killed by the very men whose lives he spared

January 27, 2014

Archduke Karl: Habsburgs not to blame for World War I

January 20, 2014

January 21 – He was put to death, just for being a king

January 20, 2014

January 17 – Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

January 16, 2014

January 15 – Most Glorious King Ceolwulp

January 13, 2014

January 2 – The Infant of Prague

January 2, 2014

How a hero faces death

January 2, 2014

December 2 – Cause of Our Joy

December 2, 2013

November 28 – December 27 – Siege of Jasna Góra

November 28, 2013

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

November 28, 2013

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

November 25, 2013

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

November 25, 2013

November 12 – Four years in Stalin’s concentration camp

November 11, 2013

November 2 – His mother celebrated his death as if it were a wedding

October 31, 2013

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

October 31, 2013

October 28 – Uncommon Valor

October 28, 2013

October 30 – St. Marcellus the Centurion, Martyr

October 28, 2013

October 25 – The original hood

October 24, 2013

October 21 – Hammer of Muslim invaders

October 21, 2013

October 23 – The amazing story of San Juan Capistrano and the Siege of Belgrade

October 21, 2013

October 18 – The day that sparked the Crusades

October 17, 2013

Who Was Christopher Columbus, and Why Is He Important?

October 14, 2013

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 10, 2013

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

September 30, 2013

September 19 – The Pope asks Princess Mary to marry James II of England

September 19, 2013

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