Elites

The Necessary Spirit of the Crusader

May 1, 2014

May 2 – Two sisters of this medieval princess were also saints

May 1, 2014

May 3 – Finding of the Holy Cross

May 1, 2014

Continually Engaged in the Struggle

April 28, 2014

April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk

April 28, 2014

800-year anniversary of the birth of St. Louis IX of France

April 24, 2014

Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, the Pantheon’s Forgotten One

April 24, 2014

April 24 – Mother Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

April 24, 2014

Garcia Moreno Refuses His Presidential Salary, Until Ecuador’s Finances Are Balanced

April 21, 2014

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 21, 2014

Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, washes the feet of the poor on Holy Thursday

April 17, 2014

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

April 17, 2014

Queen Mary Welcomes the Sick on Good Friday

April 17, 2014

For Contrast: Two Royal Attitudes to Washing the Feet of the Poor

April 17, 2014

April 17 – He rescued his country from crushing debt, yet waged incessant war

April 17, 2014

April 17 – Third Religious Rebel

April 17, 2014

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 17, 2014

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 17, 2014

St. Louis IX: A King of France Cannot Be Ransomed With Money

April 14, 2014

April 14 – She suffered for the moral corruption and decay of her time

April 14, 2014

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 14, 2014

Self-Respect and Defending Ourselves from Massification

April 10, 2014

April 10 – Friend of Cluny

April 10, 2014

April 12 – St. Teresa of the Andes

April 10, 2014

A king, a queen, and England’s Easter dilemma

April 7, 2014

Dependency and Charity

April 7, 2014

April 7 – Father of Modern Pedagogy

April 7, 2014

April 8 – Together with a noble who escaped the Terror, she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame

April 7, 2014

Finding the Balance Between Dependence and Self-Sufficiency

April 3, 2014

April 4 – Grandmother of the Templars

April 3, 2014

April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 3, 2014

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

April 3, 2014

April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 3, 2014

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

April 3, 2014

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

April 3, 2014

April 1 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

March 31, 2014

April 1 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

March 31, 2014

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

March 31, 2014

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

March 27, 2014

March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis

March 27, 2014

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

March 27, 2014

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

March 27, 2014

Self-Reliance Should not Exclude a Healthy Dependence

March 24, 2014

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

March 24, 2014

March 26 – One of the distinguished men of his age

March 24, 2014

March 26 – St. Ludger

March 24, 2014

Euthanasia Brings End to Belgian Monarchy

March 20, 2014

March 20 – St. Wulfram

March 20, 2014

March 20 – Vendor of Learning

March 20, 2014

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

March 20, 2014

March 22 – He Stood Up to Hitler Without Flinching

March 20, 2014

March 13 – There Is No Price Tag on Happiness

March 13, 2014

March 15 – Her nuns earned the name “Angels of the Battlefield”

March 13, 2014

Queen Maria Theresa of France abhorred venial sin

March 10, 2014

March 12 – The Mistaken Chronicler

March 10, 2014

St. John Francis Regis converts a rich lady to the Faith

March 6, 2014

The Cross of Our Lord Must Be the Center of our Lives

March 6, 2014

March 6 – Bishop Prime Minister

March 6, 2014

March 7 – Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

March 6, 2014

March 8 – He was not a prince, but they buried him as one

March 6, 2014

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