Henry V ‘secret’ chapel opened for Agincourt anniversary

October 23, 2023

According to BBC News: Westminster Abbey is opening Henry’s V’s chapel…to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. The chapel was built within the shrine of Edward the Confessor. Henry V ordered the chapel’s construction so prayers could be said for his soul after he died. The Battle of Agincourt took place on […]

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October 25 – Memorial of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

October 23, 2023

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest? May 4 – They believed in the religious exemption, but only at first May 22 – Queen’s Confessor                June 19 – Execution of second group of those who believed in the religious exemption, but only at first August 30 – She smuggled a priest out of prison

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St. Lawrence and the Siege of Székesfehérvár

October 19, 2023

…The October of 1601 came – that same month, thirty years ago exactly, the Turks had their pride broken at Lepanto. Now they had crossed the Danube, and in numbers, variously estimated between 80,000 and 90,000, they were drawn up a few miles from Albareale. Laurence, on horseback, in his Capuchin habit and cross in […]

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Superior-inferior, a participation of life

October 19, 2023

The influence of the greater over the lesser, and in its own way that of the lesser over the greater, was exercised in function of a relation of Christian affection established on both parts. An affection that bore the effect of mutual dedication and confidence, and which even formed a true society made up of […]

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Pierre Toussaint: Loving, Dedicated, Generous Self-Denial in the Service of His Noble Mistress (cont.)

October 12, 2023

Very early in the morning, before beginning his work, Toussaint could be seen going to Saint Peter’s Church on Barclay Street where every day for sixty years he attended Holy Mass (daily Communion becoming a custom of fervent Catholics only after the pontificate of Saint Pius X [1904–1914]) and prayed his rosary. Only after this […]

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Letter From The New To The Old Whigs (1791)

October 12, 2023

A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part of any large body rightly constituted. It is formed out of a class of legitimate presumptions, which, taken as generalities, must be admitted for actual truths. To be bred in a place of […]

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Venerable Pierre Toussaint Finds an Ingenious Way to Succor an Impoverished French Lady

October 5, 2023

His ingenuity in contriving means of assistance to others was remarkable. A French lady, who was much embarrassed in her circumstances by the depreciation of her small property and the failure of her rents, consulted Toussaint on the possibility of doing something for her support. He suggested her teaching French. She said very frankly, that […]

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Cities, regions, and family

October 5, 2023

What are the proportional limits of a city? [O ser possivel enumerar as principais familias que a compoem.] The pyramidization of the families came to extend its ascendency to the region to such a degree that a known French sociologist gave, as the only definition of a region possible, as that zone which is dominated […]

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October 5 – William Hartley

October 5, 2023

Ven. William Hartley Martyr; b. at Wyn, in Derbyshire, England, of a yeoman family about 1557; d. 5 October, 1588. At eighteen he matriculated at St. John’s, Oxford, where he became a chaplain. Being ejected by the vice-chancellor, Tobie Mathew, in 1579, he went to Reims in August, was ordained at Châlons, and returned to […]

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The Death of the Cid in Valencia

September 28, 2023

For five years the Cid remained in peace and strove to serve God and keep the Moors quiet, so that Moors and Christians dwelt as if they had always lived together; and they all loved and served the Cid with wonderful good-will. When these five years were over, tidings came that King Bucar of Morocco, […]

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Tradition and Egalitarian Modernism

September 28, 2023

Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Maharaja of Jaipur, rides atop a splendidly decorated elephant during a trip to India. The natural distinction of the Queen and the majesty of the Crown are deservedly enhanced by all the resources of a refined art that combines richness and good taste. Thus, almost intuitively, the people understand […]

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October 1 – Blessed Ralph Crockett

September 28, 2023

Blessed Ralph Crockett English martyr, b. at Barton, near Farndon, Cheshire; executed at Chichester, 1 October, 1588. Educated at Cambridge, and ordained at Reims in 1585, he was captured on board ship at Littlehampton, Sussex, 19 April, 1856, with three other priests, Thomas Bramston, George Potter, and his fellow martyr, Edward James (b. at Breaston, […]

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In honor of its 400th anniversary, Palace of Versailles will reopen Gallery of the History of the Palace

September 21, 2023

“In honor of this exceptional anniversary, the museum is currently undertaking a complete renovation of the Gallery of the History of the Palace, which will reopen to the public in September 2023. This gallery will serve as an introduction to a visit to the Palace, covering four centuries of the history of Versailles, tracing, up […]

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Pierre Toussaint: Loving, Dedicated, Generous Self-Denial in the Service of His Noble Mistress

September 21, 2023

France at that time was mistress of the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti). These Caribbean possessions, until then prosperous and tranquil, deeply suffered the disturbances of the French Revolution. The slaves and the mestizos rose up against their masters and employers with the intention of shaking off their yoke, just as […]

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The cat is a living plaything

September 21, 2023

Those men that interest themselves solely with great things are not great men. Great men are those who know how to see great horizons also in little things. The cat is an animal extraordinarily rich in aspects.It is a miniscule beast of prey, a tiger in miniature, which is seen at times snatching something up, […]

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September 23 – Pioneer missionary of the Flatheads

September 21, 2023

Gregorio Mengarini Pioneer missionary of the Flathead tribe and philologist of their language, b. in Rome, 21 July, 1811; d. at Santa Clara, California, 23 September, 1886. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1828, when barely seventeen, and later served as instructor in grammar, for which his philological bent particularly fitted him, at Rome, Medina, […]

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Pope Pius IX Loses Rome: The Porta Pia Is Breached and the Papal Zouaves Lay Down Their Weapons

September 14, 2023

At 5:15 a.m. on 20 September 1870, the observatory of Santa Maria Maggiore warned the Ministry of War that the enemy batteries had attacked Porta Pia which, because of its position, constituted the most vulnerable point of the city. . . . As he talked to the diplomatic corps . . Cardinal Antonelli arrived with […]

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The very rich moral significance of simple household objects

September 14, 2023

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira The very rich moral significance of simple household objects number of beings in which all the perfections are distributed. The beauty in this latter is much greater. For this reason God created the world with very diversified perfections. The rule of diversification is in the variety. This multiplicity forms a […]

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September 17 – Viollet-Le-Duc

September 14, 2023

Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugène-emmanuel, architect, archeologist, and author, b. in Paris, January 27, 1814; d. at Lausanne, September 17, 1879. He gained a high reputation by his intelligent comprehension of medieval Gothic architecture and by his restorations of structures built in this style. He was a pupil of Leclere; he made long journeys for the purpose of […]

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September 14 – Pope Adrian VI

September 14, 2023

Adrian VI, Pope, the last pontefice barbaro (Guicciardini, XIV, v), and the only pope of modern times, except Marcellus II, who retained his baptismal name. succeeded Pope Leo X, from 9 January, 1522, to 14 September, 1523. He was born of humble parentage in Utrecht, 2 March, 1459. He lost his pious father, Florentius Dedel, […]

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September 12 – Beheaded after a false accusation

September 11, 2023

Flavius Marcellinus Date of birth unknown; died 12 September, 413. He was a high official (tribunus et notarius) at the court of Emperor Honorius, and possessed the confidence of his imperial master owing to his good sense, and unblemished conduct. In 411 Honorius sent him to Africa as plenipotentiary judge, to preside and pass sentence […]

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One Year On: How the World Remembered Queen Elizabeth II

September 8, 2023

In this short documentary, the Royal Family Channel looks back on the twelve days of mourning that followed the tragic death of Queen Elizabeth II. Piecing together exclusive royal footage, interviews and news coverage, we remember the moment that shook the world one year on. Thursday 8th September 2022, 6:30pm, the news that everyone knew […]

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King Bucar From Africa Besieges the Cid in Valencia

September 7, 2023

At this time the Moorish king, Bucar, across the sea in Morocco, remembering the oath he had taken to his brother, King Yucef, that he would take vengeance upon the Cid, ordered proclamation to be made throughout all the dominions of his father that he wished for a great army to go against the Cid. […]

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The Fight Between Equality and Inequality Is the True Religious Battle of Our Day

September 7, 2023

What is at stake here is not insignificant. Ultimately we are dealing with an issue of aesthetics, of a love of simplicity and diversity, of a love of equality and inequality. Besides this, at a deeper level, it is a religious and moral issue as well. It is an aesthetic-moral-religious issue whose perfection is a […]

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A Chaplain Is Admitted Into the Order of Malta

August 31, 2023

The Mass being over, Monsignor Magyari, escorted by his sponsors, crossed to kneel before the Grand Master, who asked him, “What is your request?” “I ask to be received and admitted into the company of brothers in sacred religion of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.” “The request you make was refused to certain […]

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Employees and members of the family

August 31, 2023

No one has described the Portugese family as it lived in colonial Brazil better than Debret. He portrays a family of a certain category going out for a walk. The father, with his somewhat Napoleonic, bicorn hat goes in front, a patriarch lost in the mists. Behind him, single file, comes the entire family. And […]

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The Death of Maria Theresa

August 24, 2023

Maria Theresa’s health, undermined by so many fatigues, so many maternal and political anxieties, so many cares of all kinds, failed visibly. For a long time she had suffered from catarrh; it seemed as though an internal fire consumed her. On Nov 24 1780, she fell quite ill. Violent attacks of coughing, and continual suffocation, […]

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Dignity and Restraint of the Past: Impudence and Triviality of Today

August 24, 2023

By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Scenes from the “belle epoque”. In the background of the first, a building both harmonious and grave. A long cortege of graciously-dressed ladies use from it. And, in the front, wearing a crown and dressed in an ermine mantle, a lady unites personal beauty with an elegance, richness and restraint […]

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The Birth of the Dauphin

August 17, 2023

At three o’clock the new-born child was baptized in the chapel of Versailles by the Cardinal de Rohan, grand almoner. A Te Deum succeeded the baptism, and in the evening there were fireworks on the Place d’Armes. The celebrations were as splendid as ingenious. The arts and crafts of Paris spent considerable sums to go […]

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The Reign of Mary will be the civilization of admiration

August 17, 2023

We desire a culture in which everything is conceived in function of degrees of perfection, everything ordered according to the sublime in its respective genus. Admiration is the sole true planner in life. It plans, directs, and helps us to feel our way. [faz intuir o nosso caminho] Admiration is our Star of Bethlehem. All […]

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Incognito, Venerable Pierre Toussaint Aids an Impoverished French Gentleman

August 10, 2023

A French gentleman, whom Toussaint had known in affluence, a white man, was reduced to poverty; he was sick and suffering, craving a delicacy of food which he had no means to procure. For several months Toussaint and Juliette [Toussaint’s wife] sent his dinner, nicely cooked, in such a way that he could not suspect […]

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CONCLUSION

August 10, 2023

We have seen some aspects of the bad influence that the social transformations of the last two centuries, characterised especially by industrialisation and urbanisation, have had over the internal structure of the family. This shaking of the traditional institution of the family had, and continues to have, profound repercussions in the social order. Before concluding, […]

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El Cid’s Daughters Marry the Princes of Aragon and Navarre

August 3, 2023

While this Persian was still in Valencia, news came that the Princes of Aragon and Navarre were coming to their marriage. The Prince of Navarre was called Don Ramiro; and he of Aragon was named Don Sancho, and was the son of the King Don Pedro, whom the Cid had once made a prisoner; and […]

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The Traditional Family Vis-à-Vis the Nuclear Family

August 3, 2023

In the Traditional Family, there are usually many children. *  In the Nuclear Family, there are few children. * *  * The Traditional Family is normally made up of three generations interrelating amongst each other. *  In the Nuclear Family, there is normally no interrelationship between three generations. * *  *  In the Traditional Family, […]

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The Protection of a Mother

July 27, 2023

But the person who had the greatest attraction for the queen was her daughter. She rejoiced in the child with all the ardour and vivacity of a first attachment. The education of her daughter was the constant object of her thought. This woman who everyone thought was only occupied with amusements and frivolities, had meditated […]

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Incapacity to Provide for Its Own Members

July 27, 2023

The family was not only affected in its moral, psychological, and social aspects by urbanisation and industrialisation. Its economic activities were also changed. No longer capable of providing services and exercising functions as before, the family stopped being a production unit. In his essay “Sociological Study of the Spanish Family”, José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado explains: […]

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Pierre Toussaint Pays His Noble Mistress’s Debts With the Fruit of His Own Labor

July 20, 2023

At another time, the hairdresser of whom Toussaint had learnt his trade called on Madame Bérard for the stipulated sum. Toussaint heard her reply, with faltering voice, “It was not in her power to pay him; he must wait.” Toussaint followed him out, and entered into an engagement to pay the sum himself, by installments, […]

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Urbanisation Favours Juvenile Delinquency

July 20, 2023

One of the most striking aspects of the accelerated and disordered urbanisation is the formation of sprawling housing estates where nuclear families are confined to small flats where they have no desire to spend their leisure hours. As a result, most of their time is spent on the street. This happens with both the parents […]

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A Joyous Celebration

July 13, 2023

On January 18, she [Marie Antoinette] celebrated her recovery in the sacristy of the chapel of Versailles, and resumed her court duties in their usual form. On February 8, accompanied by the king, Monsieur Madame, and the Comte and Comtesse d’Artois, she went to Paris to render thanks to God for her happy deliverance. She […]

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Loss of Purpose with the Nuclear Family

July 13, 2023

This egalitarian and liberal transformation of the family deprived it of one of its more characteristic purposes: education. The so-called generation gap contributed greatly to this. This was not only caused by the frequent absence of the parents from the home, but also by the tense atmosphere created by the limited space. To this was […]

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A Royal Kick

July 6, 2023

[Marie Antoinette] she bore the fatigues of her pregnancy marvelously well. “My health is always excellent,” she wrote on August 14. “My child made its first movement on Wednesday, July 31, at half-past ten in the evening; since then it often moves, which gives me much joy. I cannot tell my dear mamma how each […]

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The Urbanised Nuclear Family: A New Mentality and Behaviour

July 6, 2023

Urban and industrial society, in turn, is not guided by coherent and stable principles. Everything is unstable, conflicting, competitive, and aggressive. There is no place for the traditional family. This brought the advent of the nuclear family made up of parents and one or two children where affectionate understanding and mutual communication between generations is […]

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Venerable Pierre Toussaint: Acclaimed in Death as the Extraordinary Man He Was

June 29, 2023

The following is part of a notice in the Home Journal, which, a few days after [Toussaint’s death], proceeded from the pen of Mr. Henry T. Tuckerman: “Died on Thursday, June 30th, [1853,] at his residence in this city, Pierre Toussaint, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. “We cannot allow this brief announcement to […]

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The Opinion of the Catholic Church

June 29, 2023

The old and rural society, with its patriarchal families, merited the following words from Pope Pius XII in his speech to the Men of Italian Catholic Action: Especially in some regions a magnificent example is given by those families, rightly called patriarchal, in which the spirit of the deceased grandfather still survives. It is a […]

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A Dying Madame Nicolas Gives Venerable Pierre Toussaint His Freedom

June 22, 2023

But not all this affectionate solicitude, nor the cares of a kind husband, for such was Monsieur Nicolas, could stay the approach of death. Her strength rapidly declined, and every day Toussaint perceived a change. At length she was confined to her bed. One day she said to him, “My dear Toussaint, I thank you […]

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Normal Development of the Child without the Phenomenon of “Adolescence”

June 22, 2023

The phenomenon “adolescence”, with its crises and problems, is typical of modern society and practically did not exist before. Paul Landis, in his book Adolescence and Youth: The Process of Maturing, says that in a traditional system: The child grows up in the tradition of the family, taking over the family occupation, maintaining throughout his […]

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King Charles III revives riding on horseback tradition in the first Trooping the Colour of his reign

June 18, 2023

According to The Telegraph: King Charles III… is the first monarch to have ridden at Trooping the Colour since Elizabeth II did so in 1986. Also riding on horseback were Prince William, Princess Anne and Prince Edward. The King was treated to an extended military flypast following Trooping the Colour after his Coronation day display […]

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Crown Prince of Jordan marries

June 16, 2023

According to the Royal Hashemid court: His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein married Miss Rajwa Khalid Alseif on Thursday, 1 June 2023. A Royal Decree was issued, bestowing the title of Her Royal Highness Princess Rajwa Al Hussein on Miss Rajwa, on the occasion of her marriage to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al […]

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Though Already Dead, the Cid Defeats King Bucar of Morocco

June 15, 2023

Three days after the death of the Cid, King Bucar came with his host. There came with him thirty-six kings and one Moorish queen, who was a negress, and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen, negresses like herself; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows. King Bucar ordered […]

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Institutional Seriousness of Marriage

June 15, 2023

One of the most powerful factors that gave solidity and stability to the traditional family was its public and institutional character. Mariano Yela states in his Prologue to José Gonzalez’s book Family Guidance and Therapy: It used to be that, at least in the West and from Roman times, the family was above all an […]

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Venerable Pierre Toussaint, the Devoted Slave, Supports Madame Nicolas, His Impoverished Noble Mistress

June 8, 2023

Toussaint, in the meantime, was industriously pursuing his business as a hairdresser, and denying himself all but the neat apparel necessary for his occupation, never appropriating the smallest sum of his earnings to his own amusement, though at that season of youth which inclines the heart to gaiety and pleasure. Belonging to a race proverbially […]

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Part II Chapter 1: The Traditional Family

June 8, 2023

Let us first look at some of the characteristics of a traditional family unit. In former times, when a rural tone of life prevailed, many conditions existed that favoured the harmonic development of the child until it reached adulthood. The crisis of adolescence was almost non-existent. In those days, society was guided by stable and […]

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After Years of Banishment and Having Conquered Valencia, El Cid Meets With King Alfonso VI of Castile

June 1, 2023

Then the Cid sent letters to the king saying that he would meet him as he commanded, and whatever the king wished he would do. When the king saw the letters, he was well pleased, and sent a reply appointing a meeting three weeks later upon the river Tagus. The preparations for this meeting on […]

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A Knight’s Tenth Commandment: Combat All Evil, Defend All That Is Good

June 1, 2023

We must confess that the Tenth Commandment of chivalry has not been clearly formulated by our poets, and that we owe it to the Church as a matter of fact. “To combat all evil, to defend all good,” would not have come naturally to the minds of those descendants of Germans who had not been […]

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The Symbolic Detonation of the Revolution(*): Sciarra Colonna and Nogaret, Philip the Fair’s Emissary, Slap Pope Boniface VIII in Anagni

May 25, 2023

Boniface immeditely proceeded to that further action he threatened, and began to draft the bull solemnly excommunicating Philip and threatening his deposition if, within a fixed time, he had not submitted and sought absolution. It was arranged that the bull should be promulgated in the cathedral at Anagni, where Boniface then was, on September 8 […]

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Part II – Introduction

May 25, 2023

INTRODUCTION Much has been said of the relationship problems between parents and children. “Crisis of Adolescence”, “The Generation Gap” and other expressions indicate that this relationship and the conditions of life within the family are not going through a period of great harmony and understanding. The hard reality is that the institution of the family […]

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Robert the Magnificent, duke of Normandy: “Go and Tell My People, That You Have Seen a Christian Prince Being Carried to Paradise by Devils”

May 18, 2023

Among the celebrated pilgrims of this age, we observe the name of Robert . . . duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror. History accuses him of having caused his brother Richard to be poisoned. Remorse urged him to make the pilgrimage to Palestine; and he set out accompanied by a great number of knights and […]

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Part I Conclusion

May 18, 2023

We have just seen how the word “family” is not an empty word. It is the leaven of life, it is a condition for existence, an essential element for progress. Supported by the values of tradition, it is the very breath of life of everything society affirms, develops, and tends towards for the future. The […]

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Letter of the Venerable Pierre Toussaint to William Schuyler*

May 11, 2023

New York, November 5, 1823 SIR, I have received your charming letter which has truly afforded me the greatest pleasure in the world and I see well that you are a young man of word. Yes, my dear sir, I believe I am the happiest of all mortals when I receive letters from Madame la […]

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Hearing the heartbeat of Doña Lucilia

May 11, 2023

I find it admirable that the sound a newborn child likes most to hear is the heartbeat of its mother. Inclusive from the viewpoint of such interactions and instincts, of the affinities that continue throughout life in its entirety. These are the harmonies that form dynasties. I felt what Mamãe felt. What she didn’t feel, […]

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