Elites

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

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

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

Traditional Elites in the Upper Class

September 6, 2012

Disguised, Archduke Albrecht inspects a Viennese soup kitchen

September 3, 2012

A Requiem for Manners

September 3, 2012

At age 17, the aristocratic Washington was used to the harshness of pioneer life

August 30, 2012

Honor and chivalry in the U.S. Military Code of Conduct

August 30, 2012

August 30 – Gallant Lady

August 30, 2012

Condemnation of Prince Harry’s scandalous Las Vegas behavior

August 27, 2012

At the Apogee of Today’s Religious, Moral, and Ideological Crisis: A Propitious Moment for the Action of the Nobility and the Traditional Elites

August 27, 2012

A Philosophy the Church Is Far From Celebrating

August 23, 2012

August 25 – King Crusader Saint

August 23, 2012

August 20 – Saint Philibert of Jumièges

August 20, 2012

Three Delicious Hazelnut-Using Recipes to Choose From

August 20, 2012

August 21 – He was one of a network of aristocrat bishops

August 20, 2012

Francis Anthony Drexel: The wealthy banker who prayed daily

August 16, 2012

The Aristocratic Carters of Virginia

August 16, 2012

August 18 – The Empress who lead the search for the True Cross

August 16, 2012

August 16 – His nobles and subjects mourned him for three years

August 16, 2012

Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

August 13, 2012

August 13 – Crusader nun

August 13, 2012

August 13 – The Ottomans lived in fear of this Capuchin

August 13, 2012

August 11 – As soldiers scaled the walls of the convent, she met them with ciborium in hand and put them to flight

August 9, 2012

The Viennese nobility feeds Vienna’s poor with Christian charity

August 6, 2012

August 8 – The Rosary is really a weapon

August 6, 2012

August 5 – Valor in a King

August 2, 2012

Absenteeism and omission: sin of the elites

August 2, 2012

Isabella the Catholic offers her jewels to fund Columbus’ discovery of America

August 2, 2012

General Lee’s one rule for students: “Be a gentleman”

July 30, 2012

July 31 – St. Helen of Sköfde

July 30, 2012

King Ferdinand and the nobility of Andalucia rush to the aid of Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon in Alhama

July 26, 2012

The State as a perfect society—its sovereignty and majesty—its supreme nobility

July 26, 2012

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