Terrorists to target Queen of England?

April 3, 2014

According to the Mirror: Security surrounding the monarch was tonight stepped up after al-Qaeda chiefs urged terrorists to blow up sports events she is most likely to go and see. An article on English-language online magazine Inspire, produced by the terror group…says: “In the beginning of summer we have Cheltenham and [at] the end of […]

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Ceremonial horses commemorated with statue

April 3, 2014

According to The British Monarchy: …The Queen…attend[ed] the unveiling of a Windsor Greys statue in Windsor Town Centre. Windsor Greys are a breed of horse which has been used by the Royal family since Victorian times to draw carriages. They…are still used at events such as Royal Ascot, Trooping the Colour and to draw the […]

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Libyan government takes steps toward constitutional monarchy

April 3, 2014

According to Magharebia: “The return of the al-Senussi monarchy is now the solution and guarantee for the return of security and stability to Libya,” Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz said… “Contacts have already been made, and we’re in touch with dignitaries and tribal chiefs in Libya, and also with the grandson of King al-Senussi, Prince Mohammed, […]

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Portuguese gallantry in the baron of Alvito’s reply

April 3, 2014

The king of Portugal sent the baron of Alvito on a diplomatic mission to the Emperor Charles V, King of Spain. The baron entered Castile accompanied by a glittering retinue of eighteen knights. At one point, a Castilian who was astonished at the number of knights asked them: —    “Do you gentlemen intend to conquer […]

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Finding the Balance Between Dependence and Self-Sufficiency

April 3, 2014

Such a concept differs greatly from that of the individualist man whose autonomy prevents him from recognizing his natural limits and the weaknesses of his fallen nature. He is a self-made man beholden to no other. This is well expressed in the ravings of Jean-Paul Sartre, who wrote that “no man should have to be […]

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

April 3, 2014

St. Richard of Wyche Bishop and confessor, born about 1197 at Droitwich, Worcestershire, from which his surname is derived; died 3 April, 1253, at Dover. He was the second son of Richard and Alice de Wyche. His father died while he was still young and the family property fell into a state of great delapidation. […]

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April 4 – Grandmother of the Templars

April 3, 2014

Saint Aleth of Dijon Mother of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, she belonged to the highest nobility of Burgundy. Her husband, Tescelin, was lord of Fontaines. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was the third of her seven children.  At the age of nine years, Bernard was sent to a much renowned school at Chatillon-sur-Seine, kept by the […]

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April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 3, 2014

St. Isidore of Seville Born at Cartagena, Spain, about 560; died 4 April, 636. Isidore was the son of Severianus and Theodora. His elder brother Leander was his immediate predecessor in the Metropolitan See of Seville; whilst a younger brother St. Fulgentius presided over the Bishopric of Astigi. His sister Florentina was a nun, and […]

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

April 3, 2014

Saint Æthelburh (died 647), also known as Ethelburga, Ædilburh and Æthelburga (Old English: Æþelburh), was an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a Christian from Kent, their marriage triggered the initial phase of the conversion of the pagan north of England to Christianity. Æthelburh date of […]

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April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 3, 2014

St. Vincent Ferrer Famous Dominican missionary, born at Valencia, 23 January, 1350; died at Vannes, Brittany, 5 April, 1419. He was descended from the younger of two brothers who were knighted for their valor in the conquest of Valencia, 1238. In 1340 Vincent’s father, William Ferrer, married Constantia Miguel, whose family had likewise been ennobled […]

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

April 3, 2014

St. Peter of Verona Born at Verona, 1206; died near Milan, 6 April, 1252. His parents were adherents of the Manichæan heresy, which still survived in northern Italy in the thirteenth century. Sent to a Catholic school, and later to the University of Bologna, he there met St. Dominic, and entered the Order of the […]

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

April 3, 2014

St. William of Ebelholt (Also called William of Paris, or William of Eskilsöe) Died on Easter Sunday, 1203, and was buried at Ebelholt. He was educated by his uncle Hugh, forty-second Abbot of St-Germain-des-Pres at Paris; and having been ordained subdeacon received a canonry in the Church of Ste-Geneviève-du-Mont. His exemplary life did not commend […]

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Some 800-year traditions cost only £3.50 a year

March 31, 2014

According to the Royal Central: On March 27th 2014, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh attended a reception in the City of London to mark the 800th anniversary of the Royal Watermen. When the Royal Watermen came into being in the reign of King John, the river was a busting highway and the […]

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Paid Labour calls for expulsion of unpaid Lords

March 31, 2014

According to The Telegraph: The last hereditary peers would face expulsion under Labour plans to reform the House of Lords. All hereditary peerages would be abolished and no more should be created, the report adds. However, some hereditary peers could return to the House of Lords as life peers if they are judged to be […]

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Gradual erosion of Britain’s royal power

March 31, 2014

According to The Telegraph: The royal prerogative is now exercised by the prime minister of the day, the Crown merely assenting to his actions. It is possible that one other prerogative has now been surrendered, perhaps unintentionally, by Mr Cameron. The right to declare war (or to go to war without any declaration) has historically […]

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Marie Antoinette’s majesty in face of the abominable charge of incest

March 31, 2014

Even if the Revolutionary Tribunal could have subpoenaed Mallet or the Emperor or Fersen, it would have meant little to the result. Her guilt, if it was guilt so to scheme against the nation, was certain: what yet remained in doubt was the political necessity of such a trial at such a moment, the limit […]

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Dependency Is Necessary For Perfection

March 31, 2014

[D]ependency is an important part of our personal development since we cannot perfect ourselves alone. We depend on community—especially the family, intermediary associations, and the Christian State—to supply our deficiencies and thus reach the perfection of our essentially social nature. So important is community that Heinrich A. Rommen emphatically writes, “Any kind of seclusion from […]

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April 1 – Precursor of Our Lady of Fatima

March 31, 2014

St. Nuno De Santa Maria Álvares Pereira (1360-1431)   NUNO ÁLVARES PEREIRA was born in Portugal on 24th June 1360, most probably at Cernache do Bomjardin, illegitimate son of Brother Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Hospitalier Knight of St. John of Jerusalem and prior of Crato and Donna Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal. About a year after his […]

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April 1 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

March 31, 2014

Bishop and Confessor The first tincture of the mind is of the utmost importance to virtue; and it was the happiness of this saint to receive from his cradle the strongest impressions of piety by the example and care of his illustrious and holy parents. He was born at Chateau-neuf, in the territory of Valence […]

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April 1 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

March 31, 2014

(Also known as Carlo d’Austria, Charles of Austria) Born August 17, 1887, in the Castle of Persenbeug in the region of Lower Austria, his parents were the Archduke Otto and Princess Maria Josephine of Saxony, daughter of the last King of Saxony. Emperor Francis Joseph I was Charles’ Great Uncle. Charles was given an expressly […]

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

March 31, 2014

The Bartlett pear is called “The Good Christian” in France, after St. Francis of Paola introduced it ‘poire bon chretien’ (good Christian pear) “Said to have originated in Calabria in southern Italy, Bartletts probably were introduced to France by St. Francis of Paola. St. Francis brought a young tree as a gift for King Louis […]

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Australia Will Honor Its Pre-Eminent Citizens as Knights and Dames

March 27, 2014

According to Royal News Blog: “Pre-eminent” Australians will become knights and dames at the Queen’s approval for the first time since 1989…. [Prime Minister Tony] Abbott said the award would go to “those who have accepted public office rather than sought it” which means it is unlikely to go to former politicians…. More likely recipients…would […]

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Will the UK Abolish Royal Consent on New Laws?

March 27, 2014

According to The Telegraph: The role of the Queen and Prince of Wales in signing off new laws is “arcane and complex” and could be abolished, MPs have said. The Commons’ Political and Constitutional Reform committee warned that the process is “fuelling speculation” that the monarchy has an “undue influence”…. “Its existence could be regarded […]

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King Baldwin saves the life of a Muslim princess, and his own is then saved by her husband

March 27, 2014

The caliph of Egypt, to revenge the death of his warriors, assembled an army, which advanced as far as the country round Ramla. Baldwin got together, in haste, a troop of three hundred knights and a thousand foot soldiers, and marched to meet him. When he perceived the standards of the Egyptian army, ten times […]

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Natural Protectionism

March 27, 2014

Church doctors recognize that just as rulers have the right to tax populations for the common good, they may also levy moderate import taxes to protect the local economy. Communities and nations should have the right to take an attitude of self-defense of their own culture and economy when confronted with intrusive and especially unfair […]

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March 27 – Royal Simplicity

March 27, 2014

St. Rupert (Alternative forms, RUPRECHT, Hrodperht, Hrodpreht, Roudbertus, Rudbertus, Robert, Ruprecht). First Bishop of Salzburg, contemporary of Childebert III, king of the Franks (695-711), date of birth unknown; died at Salzburg, Easter Sunday, 27 March, 718. According to an old tradition, he was a scion of the Frankish Merovingian family. The assumption of 660 as […]

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March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis

March 27, 2014

St. Gontran, King and Confessor He was son of King Clotaire, and grandson of Clovis I and St. Clotilda. Being the second son, whilst his brothers Charibert reigned at Paris, and Sigebert in Austrasia, residing at Metz, he was crowned King of Orleans and Burgundy in 661, making Challons on the Saone his capital. When […]

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March 29 – One of many Irish missionaries who labored to convert Central Europe

March 27, 2014

St. Eustace Date of birth unknown, died March 29, 625. He was second abbot of the Irish monastery of Luxeuil in France, and his feast is commemorated in the Celtic martyrologies on the 29th of March. He was one of the first companions of St. Columbanus, a monk of Bangor (Ireland), who with his disciples […]

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March 28 – “I have fought for God and king, and it is for them that I am going to die”

March 27, 2014

The capture and death of the fearless Charette On the 21st February his troop, now reduced to less than two hundred men, was attacked by General Travot, one of the ablest officers of Hoche. The Vendeans behaved with the greatest courage, but they were overwhelmed with numbers. The eldest brother of the general, Charette la […]

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Will Scotland Maintain the Monarchy?

March 24, 2014

According to The Telegraph: Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, said “it will be for the people of Scotland to decide” on the Queen’s role if they vote to leave the United Kingdom in September this year. His comments undermine Alex Salmond’s official policy that the monarchy would automatically be retained… However, much of the […]

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Happy Birthday, Grand Duchess!

March 24, 2014

According to the Luxemburger Wort: Luxembourg’s Grand Duchess Maria Teresa…celebrated her 58th birthday on Saturday Maria Teresa was born on March 22, 1959, in Havana, Cuba. During the Cuban revolution under Fidel Castro the family moved to New York, and in 1965 onwards to Spain. …at the University of Geneva…she met her future husband Prince […]

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St. Thomas More rejects his wife’s pleas to abandon the Faith

March 24, 2014

Thomas More was Lord High Chancellor of England in the reign of King Henry VIII. He was a fervent Catholic, and although zealous in the service of his King, was still more so in the service of God. When Henry rebelled against the Church, he put into prison, and sometimes even condemned to death, those […]

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Self-Reliance Should not Exclude a Healthy Dependence

March 24, 2014

While temperance teaches us to see the reality that each man is capable of colossal self-sufficiency, it also reveals to us that we are contingent beings. The fact that we are dependent upon others helps, not hinders, our full development. Hence, the same person who develops admirable habits of self-reliance also takes the initiative to […]

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March 24 – A deer guarded this noble saint from the unwanted advances of men

March 24, 2014

St. Catherine of Sweden Patroness against abortion and miscarriage. The fourth child of Saint Bridget and her husband, Ulf Gudmarsson, born 1331 or 1332; died 24 March, 1381. At the time of her death Saint Catherine was head of the convent of Wadstena, founded by her mother; hence the name, Catherine Vastanensis, by which she […]

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March 25 – The Annunciation: He is King by right, and also by conquest

March 24, 2014

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira We will comment on this passage taken from Saint Luke: “And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was […]

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March 25 – Saint Lucy Filippini

March 24, 2014

St. Lucy Filippini (13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) She was orphaned at an early age when her parents both died. From there she went to live with her aristocratic aunt and uncle who encouraged her religious inclination by entrusting her education to the Benedictine nuns at Santa Lucia. Her career began under the […]

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March 26 – One of the distinguished men of his age

March 24, 2014

Geoffrey of Vendôme (GOFFRIDUS ABBAS VINDOCINENSIS.) A cardinal, born in the second half of the eleventh century of a noble family, at Angers, France; died there, 26 March, 1132. At an early age he entered the Benedictine community of the Blessed Trinity at Vendôme in the diocese of Chartres; and in 1093, while still very […]

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March 26 – St. Ludger

March 24, 2014

St. Ludger (Lüdiger or Liudger) Missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, first Bishop of Munster in Westphalia, b. at Zuilen near Utrecht about 744; d. 26 March, 809. Feast, 26 March. Represented as a bishop reciting his Breviary, or with a swan at either side. His parents, Thiadgrim and Liafburg, were wealthy Frisians of noble […]

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Romanian Monarchists Call For Demonstrations

March 20, 2014

According to The Eponymous Flower: On Saturday, 5th April 2014 4:30 pm Romanians…again will gather with monarchic flags and portraits of members of the royal family to march for a KING in several cities… The march is organized by the National Alliance for the Restoration of the Monarchy (ANRM). This will be the second march […]

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St. Louis the King teaches his nobles to hate mortal sin

March 20, 2014

St. Louis, King of France, asked one of his nobles named Joinville what he would do if he were asked to choose between committing a mortal sin and being struck with leprosy. Joinville, without any hesitation, answered the King: “I would sooner commit ten mortal sins than be infected even once with that terrible plague.” […]

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Euthanasia Brings End to Belgian Monarchy

March 20, 2014

by Marie Meaney There has been no coup, no abdication, no revolution. It is an event that has gone largely unnoticed. The media have hardly spoken about it. Yet it is a reality. The monarchy in Belgium is done with, over, kaput. The king of Belgium has turned himself out of his royal throne by […]

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March 20 – Homeless Noble Poet

March 20, 2014

Blessed Baptista Mantuanus (Or SPAGNOLI). Carmelite and Renaissance poet, born at Mantua, 17 April, 1447, where he also died, 22 March, 1516. The eldest son of Peter Spagnoli, a Spanish nobleman at the court of Mantua, Baptista studied grammar under Gregorio Tifernate, and philosophy at Pavia under Polo Bagelardi. The bad example of his schoolfellows […]

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March 20 – St. Wulfram

March 20, 2014

St. Wulfram Bishop of Sens, missionary in Frisi, born at Milly near Fontainebleau, probably during the reign of Clovis II (638-56); died 20 March, before 704, in which year a translation of his body took place (Duchesne, “Fastes épiscopaux de l’ancienne Gaule”, II, Paris, 1900, 413). His father Fulbert stood high in the esteem of […]

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March 20 – Vendor of Learning

March 20, 2014

St. Clement of Ireland Also known as Clemens Scotus (not to be confounded with Claudius Clemens). Born in Ireland, towards the middle of the eighth century, died perhaps in France, probably after 818. About the year 771 he set out for France. His biographer, an Irish monk of St. Gall, who wrote his Acts, dedicated […]

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March 22 – The soldier who fought with sword in one hand and rosary in the other

March 20, 2014

St. Nicholas of Flüe, patron of: -Pontifical Swiss Guards  -Switzerland -difficult marriages -large families -judges Born 21 March, 1417, on the Flüeli, a fertile plateau near Sachseln, Canton Obwalden, Switzerland; died 21 March, 1487, as a recluse in a neighboring ravine, called Ranft. He was the oldest son of pious, well-to-do peasants and from his […]

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March 22 – He Stood Up to Hitler Without Flinching

March 20, 2014

Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen “Lion of Münster” Born     March 16, 1878 Dinklage Castle, Dinklage, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, German Confederation Died     March 22, 1946 (aged 68) Münster, Province of Westphalia, Germany Beatified     9 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI Feast     22 March The Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen […]

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March 23 – Generous Noble Missionary

March 20, 2014

St. Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo (aka St. Alphonsus Turibius) Archbishop of Lima; b. at Mayorga, León, Spain, 1538; d. near Lima Peru, 23 March 1606. Of noble family and highly educated, he was professor of laws at the University of Salamanca, where his learning and virtue led to his appointment as Grand Inquisitor of Spain by […]

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On St. Patrick’s Day, Duchess of Cambridge presents shamrocks to her husband, Prince William, and Irish Guards

March 17, 2014

According to The Telegraph: The Duchess of Cambridge…marked St Patrick’s Day in traditional fashion. In the past the role was famously carried out by the Queen Mother… At the start of the ceremony, William was one of the first to receive a shamrock from his wife and, following tradition, tucked it under the regimental star […]

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Saint Clotilde’s uncle, King Gundobad of the Burgundians, rejects St. Avitus’ invitation to become Catholic

March 17, 2014

Gundobad, King of the Burgundians, was an Arian, and, though otherwise of an amiable disposition, he refused to believe the teaching of the Catholic Church, and thought that he could get to Heaven in the sect to which he belonged. Some years after he began to reign he saw that he was wrong, and, as […]

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The Need for Stability

March 17, 2014

We must again emphasize that this localism presupposes a stable family life, which supports a love of reflection, tradition, and local identity. It presupposes a desire for full development that leads men to seek after production, refined over time, where demand is not regulated by advertising but by people zealous for products that reflect their […]

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Recipe for St. Joseph’s Day

March 17, 2014

  Reprinted with permission from, Cooking With The Saints  by Ernst Schuegraf.  

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March 17 – The Great and Noble Patrick

March 17, 2014

St. Patrick Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493. He had for his parents Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa was a […]

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Announcement – Blessed Karl of Austria Mass, April 6, 2014

March 17, 2014

Blessed Karl of Austria with his family Traditional Latin Mass in Honor of Blessed Karl Sunday, 6 April 2014, 1:00 PM Passion Sunday (Holy Rosary & Confessions begin at 12:30 PM) St. Titus Church 952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 Celebrant: Fr. Gregory Plow, TOR Franciscan University of Steubenville Please click here for more information, […]

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March 17 – St. Gertrude of Nivelles

March 17, 2014

St. Gertrude of Nivelles Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659. She was a daughter of Pepin I of Landen, and a younger sister of St. Begga, Abbess of Andenne. One day, when she was about ten years of old, her father invited King Dagobert and […]

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March 18 – Martyr King

March 17, 2014

Saint Edward the Martyr King of England, son to Edgar the Peaceful, and uncle to St. Edward the Confessor; born about 962; died March 18, 979. His accession to the throne on his father’s death, in 975, was opposed by a party headed by his stepmother, Queen Elfrida, who was bent on securing the crown […]

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Saint Joseph, Martyr of Grandeur

March 17, 2014

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira To have an idea of what Saint Joseph—the Patron of the Church—was like, we must consider two prodigious facts: he was the foster father of the Child Jesus and he was the spouse of Our Lady. The husband must be proportional to the wife. Now who is Our Lady? She […]

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For the Queen, Our Very Best: A Fairy-tale Carriage

March 13, 2014

According to Horse Canada: …Frecklington’s State Coach Britannia has been completed after years of work. It…is 18 feet long (5.5.m) and is 11 feet high (3.4m). It has electronic stabilizers, air conditioning, heating and power windows. ..handmade yew and ebony cases…contain 60 small gold-plated canisters with the Queen’s monogram inlaid in mother-of-pearl that is under […]

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Emperor Commemorates Great East Japan Earthquake

March 13, 2014

According to The Royal Correspondent: On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Their Imperial Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan arrived…in Tokyo to attend a memorial service held on the occasion of the third anniversary of 9.0 earthquake off the Tōhoku coast and the devastating tsunami that followed. During today’s service His Imperial Majesty gave […]

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Queen Blanche teaches the young St. Louis to abhor sin

March 13, 2014

When Queen Blanche became the mother of St. Louis, she received him from God as a treasure to be guarded with the utmost care. From his earliest years she kept one great thought before his mind to love above all things his Heavenly Father, and never to offend Him by sin. Often when the little […]

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The Special Role of Local Resources in Organic Society

March 13, 2014

The locality also plays a special role in the richness of products. God endowed each place with a great diversity of riches and resources, many of which are hidden. In His Providence, He put those things there principally for the discovery and use of those who live in the locality and to aid them in […]

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