Queen Paola of Belgium turns 75

September 13, 2012

According to the Radical Royalist blog: She may be Europe’s least known Queen and she celebrates her 75th birthday today “dans l’intimité” – “in private” as the court announced – without public celebrations. But her Italo-Belgian charm can easily match that of the more famous European Queens. Queen Paola was born Princess Ruffo di Calabria, on […]

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Kings must stand their ground during revolutions

September 13, 2012

In 1854, following a suggestion she had received, Queen Isabel II made plans to abandon her palace in Madrid and move with the garrison to Aranjuez. Everything was ready and her carriage was at the door when the Marquis of Turgot, ambassador of France, presented himself. Being more experienced with revolutions, he addressed the queen, […]

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The aristocratic character of hereditary associations

September 13, 2012

The traditional elites in the United States, to preserve their aristocratic character in a world where non-aristocratic habits increasingly prevailed, formed exclusive associations in the intimacy of which they could leisurely display their high bearing and traditional customs. Writing in 1960, social historian Cleveland Amory explained: “In our own day the Aristocrat can best be […]

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September 14 – Formerly a sign of abject disgrace, it now adorns even crowns and crests

September 13, 2012

The Cross could not be decently mentioned amongst Romans, who looked upon it as an unlucky omen, and as Cicero says, not to be named by a freeman. However, the Emperor Constantine attributed his victory in the Quintian fields, near the bridge Milvius, to the Cross of the Christians, the inscription of which he caused […]

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The Telegraph: Duchess puts terminally ill patients at heart of tour

September 13, 2012

According to The Telegraph: The Duchess of Cambridge will show her intention to put care of the terminally ill at the centre of her royal duties when she visits a hospice in Malaysia this week. She has chosen the project as the subject of her first public speech abroad in an attempt to draw attention […]

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September 12 – The Holy Name of the Virgin Mary; in thanksgiving for the victory over the Turks at Vienna

September 10, 2012

The Festival of the Holy Name of the Virgin Mary Pope Innocent XI extended this feast to the universal Church as a solemn thanksgiving for the relief of Vienna, when it was besieged by the Turks in 1683. The Turks had formerly laid siege to Vienna, under Solyman the Magnificent, in 1529, in the reign […]

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Video – Redefeating the Turks: the Battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683

September 10, 2012

Before he set out, Sobieski had sent a letter to Innocent XI, in which he wrote: “When the good of the Church and Christianity is concerned I shed my blood to the last drop, together with the whole kingdom. Since my kingdom and I are two bulwarks of Christianity”. To commemorate Sobieski’s victory Pope Innocent […]

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After Las Vegas debacle, Prince Harry returns to Afghanistan

September 10, 2012

According to The Telegraph: Prince Harry arrives in Afghanistan with the fate of the entire NATO mission hanging in the balance…. As a pilot in one of the Army’s elite Apache helicopter gunship squadrons, Prince Harry will inevitably find himself in the thick of the action, providing close air support for combat infantry units when […]

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Prince Hisahito celebrates 6th birthday

September 10, 2012

According to the Examiner: HIH Prince Hisahito, the future Emperor of Japan, celebrated his sixth birthday today. To celebrate the milestone, the Imperial Household Agency released pictures of the young Prince and gave details about his life and hobbies. He is a good student and in recent months has begun to show interest in learning […]

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Archduke Imre of Austria marries in Washington, DC

September 10, 2012

According to Royal Musings The sun held out for the wedding of Archduke Imre of Austria and Kathleen Elizabeth Walker…There were Luxembourgs and other royals out in full force, all close relatives or friends. The bride…wore a traditional white gown with a train, a lace veil and a pearl headband… Archduke Imre’s groomsmen were his two […]

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Portrait of the Sieur de la Salle, explorer of the Mississippi

September 10, 2012

Thus in the vigor of his manhood, at the age of forty-three, died Robert Cavelier de la Salle, “one of the greatest men,” writes Tonty, “of this age;” without question one of the most remarkable explorers whose names live in history…. Serious in all things, incapable of the lighter pleasures, incapable of repose, finding no […]

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Traditional Elites in Other Social Categories

September 10, 2012

The upper class is not exclusive in harboring people belonging to the traditional elites. These can also be found in other social categories: a) Descendants of notable figures in military, government, or economic spheres who have promoted the common good of society and etched their moral profiles on a city, region, or the country. In […]

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September 11 – Burned slowly to death at Nagasaki

September 10, 2012

Blessed Charles Spinola Born in Genoa in 1564, he was the son of the Count of Tassarolo, and the nephew of Cardinal Philip Spinola. He was educated in Spain and in the Jesuit school in Nola, Italy. He entered the noviatiate in 1584, and was ordained in 1594. In 1596, he received a letter appointing […]

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September 10 – Arrested while preaching

September 10, 2012

St. Edward Ambrose Barlow (Alias RADCLIFFE and BRERETON.) Priest and martyr, born at Barlow Hall, 1585; died 10 September, 1641. He was the fourth son of Sir Alexander Barlow, Knight of Barlow Hall, near Manchester, by Mary, daughter of Sir Uryan Brereton, Knight of Handforth Hall, Co. Chester, and was baptized at Didsbury Church 30 […]

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September 8 – The Davidic ancestry of Mary

September 6, 2012

As we celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let us recall her Davidic ancestry. St. Luke (2:4) says that St. Joseph went from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled, “because he was of the house and family of David”. As if to exclude all doubt concerning the Davidic descent of Mary, the Evangelist […]

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Muley Abul Hassan is foiled in his attempt to recapture Alhama

September 6, 2012

[Muley Abul Hassan] had ascertained that the captors of Alhama were but a handful: they were in the center of his dominions, within a short distance of his capital. They were deficient in munitions of war and provisions for sustaining a siege. By a rapid movement he might surround them with a powerful army, cut […]

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Traditional Elites in the Upper Class

September 6, 2012

It is these “old families” that, principally, determine the character of the most refined sectors of the upper class, infusing them with wholesome traditions. The inter-relationship between the upper class and the traditional elites in contemporary society is also affirmed by Lucy Kavaler, who quotes a gentleman bearing “one of New York’s oldest names” as […]

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September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 6, 2012

It had been the practice to speak of the spiritual and temporal powers in terms of pope and emperor, and it was long before it was realized, at least on the papal side, that the civil power, defeated as emperor, had returned to the attack with more aggressive vigour as the Monarchy and the State. […]

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Video: Richard the Lionheart defeats Saladin at Arsuf September 7

September 6, 2012

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September 7 – Grandson of Queen St. Clotilda

September 6, 2012

St. Cloud, Confessor A.D. 560. St. Cloud, called in Latin Chlodoardus, is the first and most illustrious saint among the princes of the royal family of the first race in France. He was son of Chlodomir, king of Orleans, the eldest son of St. Clotilda, and was born in 522. He was scarcely three years […]

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Wort.lu: Luxembourg Royals pay respects at funeral for Countess Alix de Lannoy

September 3, 2012

The late mother of the future Grand Duchess of Luxembourg was laid to rest on Friday surrounded by mourners in her hometown in Belgium. Countess Alix de Lannoy was buried in Frasnes-Les-Anvaign during the afternoon in a service which attracted the Grand Ducal family as well as Belgian nobility. To read the full article in […]

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The Telegraph: The Queen and Prince Philip visit a nursing home

September 3, 2012

“I know of a lady called Doris who worked for the Queen until old age and a faltering memory meant that she had to retire and enter a care home,” relates a correspondent in the latest Country Life. “Doris had clearly served Queen and country well, as, shortly after her retirement, the Queen and Prince Philip […]

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Disguised, Archduke Albrecht inspects a Viennese soup kitchen

September 3, 2012

[Archduke Albrecht’s] wealth was almost boundless, but so was his charity, and many were the good deeds accomplished by him in secret, especially at Vienna. In 1879 I had undertaken to supervise twice a week one of the volksküchen (people’s kitchens), to which I have referred already in this volume. One fine morning I noticed […]

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A Requiem for Manners

September 3, 2012

by Stephen M. Klugewicz On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee met General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in Appomattox, Virginia, for the purpose of surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had asked for the meeting and had prepared by putting on his finest uniform: a new, long dress coat with […]

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Meringue – A taste of Heaven!

September 3, 2012

Featherlight and spotless white, there is something about meringue that makes us think of Heaven, angels, magnificently dressed noble ladies enjoying a beautifully prepared High Tea served on the finest china and a grand silver service. Such is meringue’s nobility that we are not surprised in the least to hear that it was a favorite […]

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The Long List of September Martyrs of the French Revolution, Blessed John du Lau and Companions

September 3, 2012

Martyrs of September (Also known as: Martyrs of Paris or Martyrs of Carmes) In 1790, the revolutionary government of France enacted a law denying Papal authority over the Church in France. The French clergy were required to swear an oath to uphold this law and submit to the Republic. Many priests and religious took the […]

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September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

September 3, 2012

Pope St. Gregory I (“the Great”) Doctor of the Church; born at Rome about 540; died 12 March 604. Gregory is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church. To him we […]

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September 4 – She foretold the speedy death of the emperor

September 3, 2012

St. Rose of Viterbo (also Rosalia, and in Sicily affectionately nicknamed La Santuzza) Virgin, born at Viterbo, 1235; died 6 March, 1252. The chronology of her life must always remain uncertain, as the Acts of her canonization, the chief historical sources, record no dates. Those given above are accepted by the best authorities. Born of […]

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September 5 – Unashamed to beg alms even from his family

September 3, 2012

St. Laurence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor, First Patriarch of Venice Bishop and first Patriarch of Venice, b. in 1381, and d. 8 January, 1456. He was a descendant of the Giustiniani, a Venetian patrician family which numbered several saints among its members. Lawrence’s pious mother sowed the seeds of a devout religious life in the […]

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Prince Harry complaints top 3,600 – The Guardian

August 30, 2012

According to The Guardian: The Press Complaints Commission received a deluge of complaints over the weekend about the Sun’s front-page story on Friday. The press watchdog has received more than 3,600 complaints about the Sun’s publication of pictures of a naked Prince Harry in Las Vegas. The last time the PCC received more than 1,000 […]

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Teenager thanks Prince William and the RAF team who rescued her – Hello Magazine

August 30, 2012

According to Hello Magazine: Teenager Sharon West has expressed her thanks to Prince William who was part of a five-strong RAF crew that saved her in what was described as one of the “fastest and shortest” rescue operations. [T]he Duke helped to winch Sharon out of the water at Silver Bay in Anglesey, North Wales, […]

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Bride’s mother dies two months before Luxembourg royal wedding – Hello Magazine

August 30, 2012

According to Hello Magazine: With only two months to go until the big day, Countess Stephanie de Lannoy, who is due to marry Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, has had to deal with some very sad news. Her mother, Countess Alix de Lannoy, passed away on Sunday after suffering a stroke. The 70-year-old had eight children […]

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At age 17, the aristocratic Washington was used to the harshness of pioneer life

August 30, 2012

For the next few years, [17-year-old Washington] was the chief surveyor of Lord Fairfax, working for the most part in the Shenandoah Valley…. On field trips, Washington spread his blankets on the ground and in midsummer woke as the early light kindled the loftier summits of the forest-hooded mountains to the West. If it rained, […]

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Honor and chivalry in the U.S. Military Code of Conduct

August 30, 2012

Article 1. I am an American fighting man. I will serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. Article 2. I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender my men while they still have the means to resist. Article 3. If I […]

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August 30 – Gallant Lady

August 30, 2012

St. Margaret Ward Martyr, born at Congleton, Cheshire; executed at Tyburn, London, 30 Aug., 1588. Nothing is known of her early life except that she was of good family and for a time dwelt in the house of a lady of distinction named Whitall then residing in London. Knowing that William Watson, the priest who […]

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August 30 – Saved by the cross

August 30, 2012

Blessed Bronislava (or Bronislawa) of Poland Born in 1230 to an important Polish family, her grandfather had founded the Premonstratensian monastery at Zwierzyniec near Cracow where Bronislava’s aunt Gertrude had entered, later becoming prioress at Imbramowice. Bronislava was also a cousin of the Dominican Saint Hyacinth and related to Saint Jacek and Blessed Czeslaw. Bronislava entered the convent at Zwierzyniec at the […]

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August 31 – Unborn

August 30, 2012

St. Raymond Nonnatus (Not-Born) (In Spanish SAN RAMON). Born 1200 or 1204 at Portello in the Diocese of Urgel in Catalonia; died at Cardona, 31 August, 1240. His feast is celebrated on 31 August. He is pictured in the habit of his order surrounded by ransomed slaves, with a padlock on his lips. He was […]

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Condemnation of Prince Harry’s scandalous Las Vegas behavior

August 27, 2012

  Although Nobility.org is thankful for the good example Prince Harry has given to millions worldwide by serving in the British Army and fighting Islamist terrorists in Afghanistan—a fine example of military dedication and sacrifice that pacifists find loathsome—we are appalled and vehemently condemn his scandalous and immoral behavior last week in Las Vegas, Nev.    We […]

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Two more rescues for Prince William – Daily Express

August 27, 2012

According to the Daily Express: The prince flew into action to pilot an RAF Sea King rescue helicopter after the 58-year-old woman plunged down a crevice and broke a leg while trekking in Anglesey. She was flown to hospital in Bangor. The rescue came less than a week after William and his crew rescued a […]

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Prince Michael honours Allied soldiers

August 27, 2012

Britain’s Prince Michael of Kent on Sunday attended commemorations to honour Allied soldiers killed 70 years ago in a failed World War II invasion, in Dieppe, northern France. Some 1,400 soldiers were killed in “Operation Jubilee” when the Allies tried to briefly invade Dieppe to test German defenses. Source: RoyalBlog.nl.

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Paris pours out its heart in welcoming the brother of the King it executed

August 27, 2012

Meanwhile, Monsieur [the Count of Chambord, the future Charles X], invested with the Lieutenancy-general of the kingdom, slowly advanced from Nancy to Paris. The formation of a royal guard greatly occupied the capital. Such devotion was shown that it was improvised in a week. In seven days seven hundred men belonging the best families in […]

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At the Apogee of Today’s Religious, Moral, and Ideological Crisis: A Propitious Moment for the Action of the Nobility and the Traditional Elites

August 27, 2012

Despite the stupendous vitality the European peoples displayed in facing the havoc wreaked by the two world wars, one must admit that the reconstruction in the aftermath of the last conflict demanded considerable effort and much time. Throughout the period when Pius XII pronounced his allocutions to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility (1940-1958), the postwar […]

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August 28 – Restless Heart

August 27, 2012

St. Augustine of Hippo The great St. Augustine’s life is unfolded to us in documents of unrivaled richness, and of no great character of ancient times have we information comparable to that contained in the “Confessions,” which relate the touching story of his soul, the “Retractations,” which give the history of his mind, and the […]

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Brief video address of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna

August 23, 2012

from March 1 2012 (English subtitles) Soon we will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the end of the Time of Troubles. It’s a jubilee of the glorious feat of our entire nation. We must respect our ancestors. The best monument to them will be our good deeds and help to those in need. These […]

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Muley Abul Hassan, king of Granada, attacks the Christian stronghold of Zahara, slaying and reducing its inhabitants to captivity and slavery

August 23, 2012

A singular clause in the truce existing between the Christians and the Moors, permit[ted] hasty dashes into each others’ territories, and assaults of towns and fortresses, provided they were carried on as mere forays, and without the parade of regular warfare. A long time had elapsed, however, without any incursion of the kind on the […]

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A Philosophy the Church Is Far From Celebrating

August 23, 2012

In the apostolic letter Notre Charge apostolique of August 25, 1910, which condemns the French Catholic leftist movement known as Le Sillon of Marc Sangnier, Saint Pius X analyzes the celebrated trilogy. “The Sillon is nobly solicitous for human dignity; but it understands that dignity in the manner of certain philosophers of whom the Church […]

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August 24 – Chancellor of the court

August 23, 2012

St. Ouen (OWEN; DADON, Latin Audaenus). Archbishop of Rouen, b. at Sancy, near Soissons about 609; d. at Clichy-la-Garenne, near Paris, 24 Aug., 683. His father, Autharius, and his mother, Aiga, belonged to the Gallo-Roman race. Shortly after Ouen’s birth they came to Ussy-sur-Marne, where he spent his childhood, with which tradition connects a series […]

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August 25 – King Crusader Saint

August 23, 2012

Saint Louis IX King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April, 1215; died near Tunis, 25 August, 1270. He was eleven years of age when the death of Louis VIII made him king, and nineteen when he married Marguerite of Provence by whom he had eleven children. […]

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Lost letter experiment suggests wealthy London neighborhoods are ‘more altruistic’ – Phys.org

August 20, 2012

According to Phys.org: Researchers from UCL Anthropology used the lost letter technique to measure altruism across 20 London neighbourhoods by dropping 300 letters on the pavement and recording whether they arrived at their destination. The stamped letters were addressed by hand to a study author’s home address with a gender neutral name, and were dropped […]

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Franz Josef and Elizabeth of Bavaria are crowned King and Queen of Hungary

August 20, 2012

The royal castle of  Buda is a marvel of antique architecture. It was built in 1769, and ever since 1771 the hand of St. Stephen has been preserved as a sacred relic within its ponderous walls. Every year, on the 20th of August, a procession leaves the citadel, the relic being carried from there to […]

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August 20 – Saint Philibert of Jumièges

August 20, 2012

Saint Philibert of Jumièges (c. 608–684) was the only son of a Frankish noble, a courtier of Dagobert I. He was educated at court by Saint Ouen and entered monastic life at Rebais and was elected abbot at the age of 20. In 654, St. Philibert received a gift of land from Clovis II on […]

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Three Delicious Hazelnut-Using Recipes to Choose From

August 20, 2012

  Recipe 1 Chocolate Hazelnut Torte 1/2 cup hazelnuts 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 large eggs 6 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped 6 ounces unsalted butter, cut into pieces 3/4 cup granulated white sugar (divided) 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar Note:  Cream of tartar is […]

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August 20 – The Knights Templar owe him

August 20, 2012

St. Bernard of Clairvaux Born in 1090, at Fontaines, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153. His parents were Tescelin, lord of Fontaines, and Aleth of Montbard, both belonging to the highest nobility of Burgundy. Bernard, the third of a family of seven children, six of whom were sons, was educated with particular […]

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August 21 – He was one of a network of aristocrat bishops

August 20, 2012

Saint Sidonius Apollinaris Gaius Sollius (Modestus) Apollinaris Sidonius or Saint Sidonius Apollinaris (November 5[1] of an unknown year, perhaps 430 – August, 489) was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. Sidonius is “the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul” according to Eric Goldberg.[2] He was one of four fifth-to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters […]

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August 22 – The Queenship of Mary

August 20, 2012

Pope Pius XII in the Papal Encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam proposed the traditional doctrine on the Queenship of Mary and established this feast for the Universal Church. Pope Pius IX said of Mary’s Queenship: “Turning her maternal Heart toward us and dealing with the affair of our salvation, she is concerned with the whole human […]

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Francis Anthony Drexel: The wealthy banker who prayed daily

August 16, 2012

It seemed to have come naturally for the Drexels to pray. In Katharine’s childhood it was part of their daily lives to pray together and separately. All her life she would recall the example of prayer given by her father. Daily after his return from a busy day at the bank, after greeting his family […]

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The Aristocratic Carters of Virginia

August 16, 2012

The families into which these daughters and granddaughters of “King” Carter were married in the eighteenth century were among those, to be sure, from which the leaders of an aristocratic society would naturally spring…. It is hard to believe that pure chance should have made the five daughters of Carter the ancestresses of three signers, […]

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August 18 – The Empress who lead the search for the True Cross

August 16, 2012

Saint Helena (also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople) The mother of Constantine the Great, born about the middle of the third century, possibly in Drepanum (later known as Helenopolis) on the Nicomedian Gulf; died about 330. She was of humble parentage; St. Ambrose, in his “Oratio de obitu Theodosii”, referred […]

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August 17 – Her great beauty aroused the jealousy of the queen

August 16, 2012

St. Beatrix da Silva A Portuguese nun, died 1 September, 1490. In Portuguese she is known as Blessed Brites. She was a member of the house of Portalegre and descended from the royal family of Portugal. She accompanied the Portuguese Princess Isabel to Spain, when she married John II of Castile. There Beatrix seems to […]

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August 16 – Apostle of the North

August 16, 2012

St. Hyacinth Dominican, called the Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowacz [or Odrowaz]; born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland…; died 15 August, 1257, at Cracow. Feast, 16 Aug. A near relative of Saint Ceslaus, he made his studies at Cracow, Prague, […]

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