Royal and Noble Saints

August 1 – From impoverished Neapolitan nobility to Doctor of the Church

August 1, 2013

August 2 – Legate to the Emperor laden with responsibilities and threats

August 1, 2013

August 3 – Secretive Leader

August 1, 2013

July 29 – He regained the hearts of his people only after his death

July 29, 2013

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 29, 2013

July 30 – Patron of Charcoal

July 29, 2013

July 31 – St. Germain

July 29, 2013

July 31 – Soldier of Jesus

July 29, 2013

July 31 – St. Helen of Sköfde

July 29, 2013

July 26 – Blessed John Ingram

July 25, 2013

July 27 – Wanted: Noble Men for the Missions, Never to Return Home

July 25, 2013

July 22 – With his lady’s permission, this lord left court to become a monk, then abbot

July 22, 2013

July 23 – The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdom

July 22, 2013

July 24 – Chaste Queen

July 22, 2013

July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving

July 22, 2013

July 24 – St. John Boste

July 22, 2013

July 18 – A soldier of hell who became a soldier of heaven

July 18, 2013

July 18 – “Don’t drink water, drink beer” said the bishop

July 18, 2013

July 18 – She Married a Man to Change Him and It Worked

July 18, 2013

July 19 – Her whole family became saints

July 18, 2013

July 20 – Carolingian Reformer

July 18, 2013

July 19 – The knight who was afraid of water, but not afraid of martyrdom

July 18, 2013

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 15, 2013

July 11 – The noble saint who fled the world, but the world ran after him

July 11, 2013

July 13 – Saintly Elite

July 11, 2013

July 13 – Good King Henry

July 11, 2013

July 13 – Author of “The Golden Legend”

July 11, 2013

July 14 – The Lily of the Mohawks

July 11, 2013

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 8, 2013

July 10 – Seven Holy Noble Brethren

July 8, 2013

July 10 – Charlemagne Was Punished for His Rudeness to Her

July 8, 2013

July 4 – Patroness of victims of adultery, jealousy and unfaithfulness

July 4, 2013

July 5 – He founded the Barnebites and reformed two religious orders, but only lived 37 years

July 4, 2013

July 6 – Mother-in-law Woes

July 4, 2013

July 6 – The King Had Three Daughters, All Saints

July 4, 2013

July 6 – Nobility dedicated to the eradication of slavery

July 4, 2013

July 1 – Found guilty of “high treason” for promoting the Catholic faith, he responded “Deo gratias”

July 1, 2013

July 1 – Born to Gallic nobility, he renounced all to embrace religious poverty

July 1, 2013

July 1 – Venerable Thomas Maxfield

July 1, 2013

July 2 – Caught Between Two Masters

July 1, 2013

June 27 – The Saint-King elected to lead the First Crusade

June 27, 2013

June 28 – He fought to preserve the Pope’s independence

June 27, 2013

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

June 27, 2013

June 26 – Chartreuse is not only a drink

June 24, 2013

June 22 – He Confronted the Mandate

June 20, 2013

June 21 – He Was More Angel than Man

June 20, 2013

June 22 – St. John Fisher

June 20, 2013

June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola

June 20, 2013

June 23 – After her death, her sister, niece, and great-niece, all royal princesses and two of them widowed queens, followed her as abbesses of Ely

June 20, 2013

June 17 – Saint Brother Albert Chmielowski

June 17, 2013

June 19 – Love Accepts No Limitations

June 17, 2013

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

June 17, 2013

June 19 – The murderer’s saintly son

June 17, 2013

June 13 – He Died Aged 36, But the Whole World Knows Him

June 13, 2013

June 15 – St. Bernard dogs carry his name

June 13, 2013

June 16 – The Saint for Father’s Day: death threats meant nothing to him

June 13, 2013

February 1 – She and Saint Patrick were “one heart and one mind”

June 10, 2013

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 10, 2013

June 8 – Accused of theft and other misconduct

June 6, 2013

June 3 – She eventually won her husband’s heart to the faith, but then had to witness her children kill each other.

June 3, 2013

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