Royal and Noble Saints

May 8 – When St. Michael Appeared

May 5, 2016

May 8 – Matriarch of the Carolingian family

May 5, 2016

May 9 – Known personally to the King, he was falsely accused of conspiring to murder him

May 5, 2016

May 9 – St. Nicholas Albergati

May 5, 2016

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

May 5, 2016

May 3 – Finding of the Holy Cross

May 2, 2016

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

May 2, 2016

May 3 – Sword-bearer to the Emperor

May 2, 2016

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

May 2, 2016

May 4 – St. Godard

May 2, 2016

May 5 – St. Hilary of Arles

May 2, 2016

April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk

April 28, 2016

April 29 – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him

April 28, 2016

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 28, 2016

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 28, 2016

May 2 – Two sisters of this medieval princess were also saints

April 28, 2016

May 2 – St. Athanasius

April 28, 2016

April 26 – Nephew of the Duke of Maqueda

April 25, 2016

April 26 – Pope St. Cletus

April 25, 2016

April 27 – Noble Model of Confidence

April 25, 2016

April 22 – Father of Origen

April 21, 2016

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 21, 2016

April 23 – Archbishop author of war-song

April 21, 2016

April 24 – Mother Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

April 21, 2016

April 24 – “I came to extirpate heresy, not to embrace it”

April 21, 2016

April 25 – Builder

April 21, 2016

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 18, 2016

April 19 – The saintly warrior pope

April 18, 2016

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 18, 2016

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 18, 2016

April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

April 18, 2016

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 18, 2016

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 18, 2016

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 14, 2016

April 17 – One of the many nobles who spread the Cluny reform

April 14, 2016

April 17 – St. Stephen Harding

April 14, 2016

April 18 – Blessed Marie de l’Incarnation

April 14, 2016

April 18 – St. Willigis

April 14, 2016

April 12 – St. Teresa of the Andes

April 11, 2016

April 12 – Crusader in every sense of the word

April 11, 2016

April 12 – Pope St. Julius I

April 11, 2016

April 13 – This Prince Defied His Family

April 11, 2016

April 13 – Born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and dwarfed

April 11, 2016

April 13 – Pope St. Martin I

April 11, 2016

April 14 – She suffered for the moral corruption and decay of her time

April 11, 2016

April 14 – St. Peter Gonzalez (aka St. Elmo)

April 11, 2016

April 8 – Together with a noble who escaped the Terror, she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame

April 7, 2016

April 9 – She persuaded her husband the Count to become a monk

April 7, 2016

April 9 – Mary of Cleophas

April 7, 2016

April 10 – Friend of Cluny

April 7, 2016

April 11 – He excommunicated the king, who murdered him as he celebrated Mass

April 7, 2016

April 5 – St. Æthelburh and the Rose Named After Her

April 4, 2016

April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 4, 2016

April 6 – With his head split open, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo”

April 4, 2016

April 6 – He wrote the genealogy of the Danish kings to disprove the alleged impediment of consanguinity

April 4, 2016

April 7 – Father of Modern Pedagogy

April 4, 2016

April 1 – Precursor of Our Lady of Fatima

March 31, 2016

April 1 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

March 31, 2016

April 1 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

March 31, 2016

April 3 – The man they trusted to collect the Crusader tax

March 31, 2016

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