Royal and Noble Saints

February 24 – The Cup Is Sometimes Bitter

February 22, 2016

February 25 – Princess, Abbess, Miracle Worker

February 22, 2016

February 19 – St. Conrad of Piacenza

February 18, 2016

February 20 – Leaders and future nobility appear in times of desperate distress

February 18, 2016

February 20 – Pope Martin V

February 18, 2016

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 18, 2016

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 18, 2016

February 21 – Terror of the Wicked, Supporter of the Weak

February 18, 2016

February 21 – His mother almost allowed him to die

February 18, 2016

February 22 – The Cavalier’s Mistress Who Became a Saint

February 18, 2016

February 16 – Founded and ruled a religious order as his family Manorhouse, but only joined that order in his old age

February 15, 2016

February 17 – He burned the pagan temple

February 15, 2016

February 17 – Marvelous Apparition of Our Lady To Seven Young Nobles

February 15, 2016

February 18 – Charlemagne’s envoy to the pope

February 15, 2016

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

February 15, 2016

February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth

February 15, 2016

February 12 – Saint Eulalia of Barcelona

February 11, 2016

February 12 – St. Frideswide

February 11, 2016

February 13 – Mystic and Counselor to Future Popes

February 11, 2016

February 13 – St. Fulcran

February 11, 2016

February 14 – Renounced Earthly Nobility To Obtain Heavenly Nobility

February 11, 2016

February 15 – St. Claude de la Colombière

February 11, 2016

February 9 – Banished From the Court

February 8, 2016

February 10 – He fought socialism in both its Nazi and Soviet forms…and paid for it with his life

February 8, 2016

February 10 – The Lord God Gave Her What Her Brother Would Not

February 8, 2016

February 11 – Elected pope while on Crusade in Palestine

February 8, 2016

February 11 – St. Benedict of Aniane

February 8, 2016

February 5 – Patroness of Nurses

February 4, 2016

February 5 – He put the Bible to verse and prose

February 4, 2016

February 5 – St. Adelaide of Cologne

February 4, 2016

February 6 – Apostle of Flanders

February 4, 2016

February 7 – Refused admission to the Pontifical Noble Guard, he became Pope instead

February 4, 2016

February 7 – Saintly King, and Father of Three More Saints

February 4, 2016

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 4, 2016

February 8 – A strong and mighty Angel – calm, terrible, and bright – the cross in blended red and blue, upon his mantle white

February 4, 2016

February 2 – “Though in chains, he is as gay as a little bird”

February 1, 2016

February 2 – He hastened to the king, exhibited his wounded body and related his vision

February 1, 2016

February 3 – The Stuff of Which Saints Are Made

February 1, 2016

February 3 – Half Fierce Pagan Princess, Half Gentle Christian Princess

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Daughter of one king and wife of another

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Portuguese noble and favorite of the king, he strove to convert the nobility of India – and paid for it with his life

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Wild and dissolute, but then he heard this!

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Sent into Muslim lands, he sought to preach to the Sultan

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Probably the most learned man of his age

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Patron of Armenia

February 1, 2016

January 29 – Noble enough to cover five contemporary kings with invective

January 28, 2016

January 30 – Cured in body and in soul

January 28, 2016

January 30 – St. Martina

January 28, 2016

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

January 28, 2016

January 31 – The Glory of the Ladies

January 28, 2016

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

January 28, 2016

February 1 – Immediately after his martyrdom, they lined up to venerate his relics

January 28, 2016

January 26 – She was from one of the first families of Rome

January 25, 2016

January 27 – Foundress of the Ursulines

January 25, 2016

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 25, 2016

January 28 – Angelic Doctor, Count

January 25, 2016

January 28 – St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia

January 25, 2016

January 22 – Patroness of abuse victims

January 21, 2016

January 22 – The noble who often returned home barefoot

January 21, 2016

January 22 – Blessed Prince

January 21, 2016

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