Royal and Noble Saints

Genesius, Count of Clermont

June 3, 2024

June 6 – St. Claudius

June 3, 2024

Bl. Thomas Cottam

May 30, 2024

May 30 – When God chose sides in war between two Christian nations, He sent her to win it

May 30, 2024

May 31 – St. Mechtildis of Edelstetten

May 30, 2024

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 30, 2024

Saved from the Byzantine Emperor’s roaster, ironically, by the Moslems

May 30, 2024

June 3 – Genesius (Bishop of Clermont)

May 30, 2024

She had to witness her children kill each other

May 30, 2024

St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 27, 2024

After Defeating the Saracens, He Joined the Benedictines

May 27, 2024

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 27, 2024

Saint Laura of Constantinople

May 27, 2024

May 23 – Appointed bishop to replace a corrupt one, then imprisoned for defending the King’s legitimate wife

May 23, 2024

May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins

May 23, 2024

First Pope to transform a pagan temple of Rome into a Christian church

May 23, 2024

He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”

May 23, 2024

May 20 – St. Bernardine of Siena

May 20, 2024

May 21 – The last of his noble lineage, he started a spiritual one

May 20, 2024

May 22 – St. Rita of Cascia

May 20, 2024

Catholic, Crusader, Leper and King: The Life of Baldwin IV and the Triumph of the Cross

May 16, 2024

May 16 – His tireless zeal earned him the name of “Hunter of Souls,” and martyrdom by the Cossacks. Today he is Patron of Poland.

May 16, 2024

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 16, 2024

May 18 – St. Eric, King of Sweden, Martyr

May 16, 2024

May 19 – Patron of lawyers

May 16, 2024

May 13 – “Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?”

May 13, 2024

May 15 – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

May 13, 2024

May 9 – Isaias, Prophet and Historian, Sawn in Two

May 9, 2024

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 9, 2024

Carthusian Martyrs, the Third Group

May 9, 2024

Blessed Francis de Montmorency Laval

May 6, 2024

May 7 – St. John of Beverley

May 6, 2024

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 6, 2024

May 8 – Patron in War

May 6, 2024

May 2 – Economist

May 2, 2024

May 2 – St. Athanasius

May 2, 2024

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

May 2, 2024

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

May 2, 2024

St. Hugh the Great – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him

April 29, 2024

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 29, 2024

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 29, 2024

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 25, 2024

April 27- Abused by her noble patrons, she remained a model of harmony

April 25, 2024

April 28 – Saint Egbert

April 25, 2024

St. Adalbert of Bohemia

April 22, 2024

St. Willigis

April 18, 2024

April 19 – This German pope led his army against the Normans

April 18, 2024

April 19 – Hostage of the Danes

April 18, 2024

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 18, 2024

“I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

April 18, 2024

April 15 – The Notkers of St. Gall

April 15, 2024

One of the many nobles who spread the Cluny reform

April 15, 2024

April 17 – St. Stephen Harding

April 15, 2024

April 12 – Crusader in every sense of the word

April 11, 2024

April 13 – Two English Martyrs

April 11, 2024

The Annunciation: He is King by right, and also by conquest

April 8, 2024

The Annunciation: “Of His Kingdom, there shall be no end.”

April 8, 2024

April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 4, 2024

April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 4, 2024

April 5 – St. Ruadhan

April 4, 2024

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