Elites

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

January 17 – Sister of the Grand Master of Malta

January 16, 2014

Alba: Military command at the age of sixteen

January 13, 2014

In the Middle Ages, Law Was Found, Not Made

January 13, 2014

January 13 – The bold strategic vision of Cluny and its first abbot

January 13, 2014

January 13 – This Saint Opposed Bishop Lucifer

January 13, 2014

January 14 – Blessed Devasahayam Pillai

January 13, 2014

January 15 – Most Glorious King Ceolwulp

January 13, 2014

January 15 – St. Maurus & St. Placidus

January 13, 2014

January 9 – Blessed Tommaso Reggio

January 9, 2014

January 10 – Patient to the Penitent, Inflexible to the Impenitent

January 9, 2014

January 11 – Wounded in a duel

January 9, 2014

January 12 – He promoted the use of stained glass

January 9, 2014

St. Vincent de Paul teaches the Queen of France

January 6, 2014

Christianity Greatly Favors the Welfare of the State

January 6, 2014

January 7 – St. Aldric

January 6, 2014

January 8 – Hapsburg Saint

January 6, 2014

Queen appoints Earl of Home as Knight of the Thistle

January 2, 2014

Epiphany – The Three Kings made the Kingship of Christ Manifest to the Pagan World

January 2, 2014

Frederick of Prussia is rebuked by the General of his Hussars, a Catholic

January 2, 2014

The Church Is Part of the Heart and Soul of Economy

January 2, 2014

January 2 – The Infant of Prague

January 2, 2014

January 2 – St. Basil the Great

January 2, 2014

January 3 – Saint Joseph Mary Tomasi

January 2, 2014

January 3 – The saint who twice saved Paris

January 2, 2014

January 4 – American Aristrocratic Saint

January 2, 2014

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