Elites

El Cid

June 16, 2014

Garcia Moreno: the much-liked, volunteer tax collector

June 12, 2014

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 12, 2014

June 15 – St. Bernard dogs carry his name

June 12, 2014

June 9 – A simple palace servant, God confided to her the destiny of nations

June 9, 2014

June 9 – Apostle of Brazil

June 9, 2014

St. Gregory of Utrecht

June 9, 2014

Sublime Civilizations

June 5, 2014

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 5, 2014

June 8 – The Noble Countess Who Dedicated Her Life to Bringing Dissolute Women to Repentance

June 5, 2014

A Queen obtains mercy for six heroes

June 2, 2014

Defining the Sublime

June 2, 2014

How Feudalism reformed and revived monasticism: Cluny

June 2, 2014

St. Louis IX’s reasons for staying four years in the Holy Land

May 29, 2014

May 26 – He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”

May 26, 2014

May 27 – St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 26, 2014

May 28 – Whether She Was Upstairs Or Downstairs, She Was Ever Steady

May 26, 2014

May 28 – After Defeating the Saracens, He Joined the Benedictines

May 26, 2014

May 28 – St. Germain of Paris

May 26, 2014

“Omne Delectamentum in se Habentem”

May 22, 2014

May 23 – Chevalier of the Order of Leopold

May 22, 2014

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 22, 2014

May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow

May 22, 2014

Monarchy Support Highest in 20 Years

May 19, 2014

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 19, 2014

May 19 – He Grabbed the Devil By the Nose

May 19, 2014

May 16 – St. Honoratus of Amiens

May 15, 2014

May 18 – St. Eric, King of Sweden, Martyr

May 15, 2014

A Dauphin of France learns self-control

May 12, 2014

Honor: Never Leave A Poor Crusader Behind as a Muslim Captive

May 8, 2014

Two Americas Clash

May 8, 2014

May 8 – When St. Michael Appeared

May 8, 2014

Napoleon meets the tradition of Prince Massimo

May 5, 2014

America: Change is Coming

May 5, 2014

The Count of Blois is scolded by his wife for deserting the Crusade

May 1, 2014

The Necessary Spirit of the Crusader

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

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

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