Elites

March 9 – She Could Detect Diabolical Plots

March 6, 2014

March 3 — St. Katharine Drexel

March 3, 2014

Leovigild, King of the Visigoths, is instructed by St. Gregory of Tours on the divinity of the Holy Ghost

February 27, 2014

Preferring One’s Own Region

February 27, 2014

February 27 – Are You Hiding a Priest?

February 27, 2014

March 1 – St. David of Wales

February 27, 2014

March 2 – This Princess Refused to Marry the Emperor

February 27, 2014

New study: overall life status depends not just from parents’ status but also from great-great-great-grandparents

February 24, 2014

The Formation of Regions

February 24, 2014

February 24 – The Cup Is Sometimes Bitter

February 24, 2014

Decadent, Timid Elites

February 20, 2014

Courtesy even at the tragic end: Marie Antoinette apologizes to her executioner

February 20, 2014

An Organic Society Has an Astonishing Self-Sufficiency

February 20, 2014

February 21 – Shakespeare’s Inspiration

February 20, 2014

February 21 – Terror of the Wicked, Supporter of the Weak

February 20, 2014

There was a time when Emperors trembled before a saint

February 17, 2014

Subsidiarity and Man’s Pursuit of Self-Sufficiency

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Confronted the Emperor and annulled the Robber Council of Ephesus

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth

February 17, 2014

St. Jerome’s prayer to St. Paula, the scion of an ancient noble family of Rome

February 13, 2014

A Turning Inward

February 13, 2014

February 13 – Mystic and Counselor to Future Popes

February 13, 2014

The Pizza That Was Named For A Queen – Recipe

February 10, 2014

Are all large fortunes caused by greed?

February 6, 2014

Philip II punishes two nobles for showing disrespect to God

February 6, 2014

Embedding Honor in Society

February 6, 2014

February 7 – Refused admission to the Pontifical Noble Guard, he became Pope instead

February 6, 2014

February 7 – Saintly King, and Father of Three More Saints

February 6, 2014

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 6, 2014

The Conversion of Clovis, King of the Franks, During the Battle of Tolbiac

February 3, 2014

Character Not Capital

February 3, 2014

February 3 – Half Fierce Pagan Princess, Half Gentle Christian Princess

February 3, 2014

February 3 – The Stuff of Which Saints Are Made

February 3, 2014

February 4 – Daughter of one king and wife of another

February 3, 2014

February 4 – Portuguese noble and favorite of the king, he strove to convert the nobility of India – and paid for it with his life

February 3, 2014

February 5 – He put the Bible to verse and prose

February 3, 2014

Louis XVI’s weakness leads to the massacre of his Swiss guards

January 30, 2014

January 30 – Cured in body and in soul

January 30, 2014

January 31 – St. John Bosco Meets His First Noble Patroness

January 30, 2014

January 31 – The Glory of the Ladies

January 30, 2014

February 1 – Immediately after his martyrdom, they lined up to venerate his relics

January 30, 2014

The last words of Queen Philippa to her sons

January 27, 2014

The value of nobility is sometimes intangible

January 27, 2014

Rule of Honor vs. Rule of Money

January 27, 2014

January 27 – Foundress of the Ursulines

January 27, 2014

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 27, 2014

January 28 – Larochejacquelein killed by the very men whose lives he spared

January 27, 2014

January 29 – Noble enough to cover five contemporary kings with invective

January 27, 2014

Marie Antoinette embraces her father for the last time

January 23, 2014

A Return to the Rule of Honor

January 23, 2014

January 25 – St. Poppo

January 23, 2014

January 25 – Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel

January 23, 2014

January 26 – She was from one of the first families of Rome

January 23, 2014

January 22 – The noble who often returned home barefoot

January 20, 2014

January 22 – Blessed Prince

January 20, 2014

The Pope favors removing the Merovingians and acclaiming Pippin the Short as king of the Franks

January 20, 2014

In the Middle Ages, the King Was Subject to the Law, Which Was Sovereign

January 20, 2014

January 21 – None was held in such high honor

January 20, 2014

As we continue to sink, hereditary elites look better and better

January 16, 2014

Medieval Representative Government and the Sanctioning of Law

January 16, 2014

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