Elites

This saint walked barefoot from Spain to Rome

October 18, 2012

October 21 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

October 18, 2012

Isabella the Catholic: majestic and saintly even in death

October 18, 2012

St. John Bosco taught his boys to love social inequalities

October 18, 2012

October 19 – Prayer was his crime

October 18, 2012

How Marie Antoinette gave prestige to the potato – and a potato recipe from the French royal court

October 15, 2012

Bayard’s honor under siege

October 15, 2012

Social Revolution Following the Civil War

October 15, 2012

October 17 – The Battle of Cholet

October 15, 2012

October 16 – Duchess and saint

October 15, 2012

Hedwig beakers – the medieval treasure named after a princess saint

October 15, 2012

October 15 – Interior Castle

October 15, 2012

The Salve Regina is sung aboard the Santa Maria on the eve of the discovery of the New World

October 11, 2012

Columbus, and how to make Key Lime Pie

October 11, 2012

Family trusts and foundations

October 11, 2012

October 11 – Model Archduke, both spiritual and temporal

October 11, 2012

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 11, 2012

October 12 – Difficulties in his youth prepared him for later trials

October 11, 2012

October 12 – Martyr King

October 11, 2012

October 13 – King Confessor

October 11, 2012

Lifting our Gaze Toward the Alienated Elites

October 8, 2012

Why celebrate Columbus Day?

October 8, 2012

October 9 – Royal penitent

October 8, 2012

October 9 – Superb and valiant knight

October 8, 2012

Lepanto: Turkish might buckles in the grandest naval battle of History

October 4, 2012

Traditional Associations of Other Ethnic Groups

October 4, 2012

October 6 – Princes and popes coveted the advice of this silent man

October 4, 2012

October 4 – Chivalry at its highest

October 4, 2012

Debutante Balls and Other Social Pageantry

October 1, 2012

October 3 – Enemy of King St. Louis, but still his friend

October 1, 2012

October 3 – Mother Théodore Guérin

October 1, 2012

October 2 – Falsely charged, mutilated and martyred

October 1, 2012

At age 16, George Washington’s intimate friendship with the Fairfax family leads him to write out 110 “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”

September 27, 2012

September 28 – Good King Wenceslaus

September 27, 2012

September 28 – Franciscan money lender

September 27, 2012

September 27 – St. Vincent de Paul had special charity to the impoverished nobility

September 27, 2012

September 27 – These exemplary nobles personified virtue

September 27, 2012

September 25 – Prince Umpire in a deadly sport

September 24, 2012

Social entertaining reached an apogee during the Old Regime

September 24, 2012

Family Associations

September 24, 2012

September 24 – Our Lady of Mercy

September 24, 2012

September 23 – He ensured the immunity of non-combatants in warfare

September 20, 2012

Malicious tongues lash at Empress Sissi

September 20, 2012

Patriotic Associations of a Hereditary Character

September 20, 2012

García López de Cárdenas discovers the Grand Canyon

September 17, 2012

The private character of hereditary associations

September 17, 2012

September 17 – Noble calm in all controversy, even when correcting the pope

September 17, 2012

September 19 – She begged donations to ransom Christian captives

September 17, 2012

September 15 – Grandmother of Good King Wenceslaus

September 13, 2012

The aristocratic character of hereditary associations

September 13, 2012

September 14 – Formerly a sign of abject disgrace, it now adorns even crowns and crests

September 13, 2012

Portrait of the Sieur de la Salle, explorer of the Mississippi

September 10, 2012

Traditional Elites in Other Social Categories

September 10, 2012

September 11 – Burned slowly to death at Nagasaki

September 10, 2012

September 10 – Arrested while preaching

September 10, 2012

Traditional Elites in the Upper Class

September 6, 2012

September 7 – Grandson of Queen St. Clotilda

September 6, 2012

Disguised, Archduke Albrecht inspects a Viennese soup kitchen

September 3, 2012

A Requiem for Manners

September 3, 2012

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

September 3, 2012

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