Crusades

But for Just War, the West Would Be Muslim, Pagan, or Barbarian

August 22, 2019

August 25 – King, Crusader, Saint

August 22, 2019

August 25 – How do you portray a saint?

August 22, 2019

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 19, 2019

Saint Augustine and Just War

August 15, 2019

August 15 – The Knights of St. John capture Rhodes and establish their sovereignty

August 12, 2019

July 18 – A soldier of hell who became a soldier of heaven

July 15, 2019

Erard de Severy Died on Crusade Upholding his Family Honor

July 11, 2019

July 13 – The Crusaders attack Jerusalem

July 11, 2019

The True Cross Is Lost in the Crusaders’ Defeat by Saladin at the Horns of Hattin

July 4, 2019

Chivalry: How Was it Born?

July 4, 2019

The Catholic Theory of War and the Soldier

June 27, 2019

Loyalty Trumps All Self-Interest in Count Raymond’s Military Counsel to the King

June 20, 2019

Chivalry As The Eighth Sacrament

June 20, 2019

God Rewards the Crusades with Sugar

June 13, 2019

Fleur-de-lis And Other Molded Sugar

June 13, 2019

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 6, 2019

The Lord of Joinville Cautions His Muslim Captor Never to Trust Apostates

May 30, 2019

May 30 – Most Valiant King

May 27, 2019

May 16 – Leper King

May 13, 2019

St. Louis IX of France Takes the Cross

May 9, 2019

April 4 – Grandmother of the Templars

April 1, 2019

Gaucher de Châtillon Dies Defending St. Louis IX of France

March 21, 2019

Death of Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem

February 28, 2019

Heroic Death of Jacques de Maillé, a Knight of the Temple

February 14, 2019

Sigur of Norway and his 10,000 Viking Crusaders help conquer Sidon

January 31, 2019

Josselin de Courtenay’s Dying Lesson To His Prodigal and Pusillanimous Son

January 24, 2019

Death of Tancred, a man-symbol, and an exemplary Crusading knight

January 10, 2019

December 12 – Tancred

December 10, 2018

Moslem Seville surrenders to Saint Ferdinand

November 22, 2018

November 25 – The day a 16 year old invalid and a handful of men defeated a huge professional army

November 22, 2018

Non-Negotiables: King Baldwin refuses to surrender Christian cities to save the life of Gervais, Count of Tiberias

November 15, 2018

The First Crusade Was a Clash of Civilizations

November 8, 2018

All Saints Day: How many saints were noble?

October 29, 2018

October 18 – The day that sparked the Crusades

October 15, 2018

Godfrey of Bouillon Chosen King of Jerusalem

October 11, 2018

September 29 – In battle or in prison, he never missed Mass

September 27, 2018

Godfrey of Bouillon Sold His Feudal Lands to Fund the First Crusade

August 30, 2018

“Soldiers Of Hell, Become Soldiers Of The Living God!”— Blessed Urban II Launches the Crusades

August 23, 2018

August 25 – How do you portray a saint?

August 23, 2018

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 20, 2018

August 15 – The Knights of St. John capture Rhodes and establish their sovereignty

August 13, 2018

The Death of Godfrey of Bouillon

July 19, 2018

July 18 – A soldier of hell who became a soldier of heaven

July 16, 2018

July 13 – The Crusaders attack Jerusalem

July 12, 2018

July 16 – Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 12, 2018

July 16 – Alfonso VIII of Castile crushes the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa

July 12, 2018

Godfrey of Bouillon: Leader of the First Crusade and Liberator of Jerusalem

June 21, 2018

June 15 – The Northern Crusades

June 14, 2018

June 5 – Franciscan preacher of crusade

June 4, 2018

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 4, 2018

Deus Vult! God Wills it! Have Enthusiasm for Our Lady! – Part 1

May 24, 2018

May 16 – Leper King

May 14, 2018

The Truce of God: The Medieval Church as Peace-Maker

April 19, 2018

God Rewarded Christendom For the Reconquista and the First Crusade with Wisdom and Civilization

April 12, 2018

The Failure of Blessed Urban II’s Italian Launching of the Crusades

March 15, 2018

Godfrey of Bouillon Kills a Saracen Giant During the Siege of Nicaea

March 8, 2018

Christendom, Sacrality in the Temporal Order – Part III

February 1, 2018

December 23 – The Knights of Aviz and Their Cistercian Founder

December 21, 2017

Saint Bernard: “The penance for your sins is to defend the Holy Land!”

November 30, 2017

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