Elites

May 10 – Saint Damien: A Hero Who Died on the Battlefield of Honor

May 10, 2012

May 12 – Would you accept the crowns of England, France and the Holy Roman Empire? She said no

May 10, 2012

Post-Napoleonic Paris’s enthusiasm at the triumphal entry of its prince

May 7, 2012

Marie Antoinette was destroyed after she had reformed her ways

May 7, 2012

Chivalry and family heroes helped shape Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

May 3, 2012

Aristocracy and Grandeur

May 3, 2012

May 3 – Sword-bearer to the Emperor

May 3, 2012

The Carthusian Martyrs – Third and Fourth Groups and the Lone Survivor

May 3, 2012

May 6 – Prince, priest, pioneer

May 3, 2012

The death of Bayard, the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche

April 30, 2012

The American Paradox

April 30, 2012

April 30 – Crusader Pope

April 30, 2012

May 2 – Two sisters of this medieval princess were also saints

April 30, 2012

General MacArthur confronts President Roosevelt to save the U.S. Army

April 26, 2012

Forms of Government: Abstract Principles and Their Influence in the Formation of a Political Mentality

April 26, 2012

April 27 – Noble Model of Confidence

April 26, 2012

Madame Elisabeth: the princess who confronted a Revolution

April 23, 2012

The Familial Character of Feudal Government—The King: The Father of His People

April 23, 2012

April 23 – Noble Bohemian

April 23, 2012

Don John of Austria was loved as a father by his soldiers and sailors

April 19, 2012

The Elitist School: The discrediting of the liberal myth

April 16, 2012

Don John of Austria runs away from Court to join the Spanish fleet headed to the relief of Malta

April 12, 2012

Alexis de Tocqueville’s unilateral vision of America

April 12, 2012

A Unilateral Picture of the United States – The influence of the American Myth

April 9, 2012

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

April 5, 2012

Queen Mary Welcomes the Sick on Good Friday

April 5, 2012

Equality and Inequality among Men

April 2, 2012

April 3 – Collected the Crusader tax because he was honest with the money of others

April 2, 2012

March 27 – Royal Simplicity

March 28, 2012

Frequently, great institutions are not overthrown, they self-destruct

March 26, 2012

March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis

March 26, 2012

St. Louis IX in the exercise of justice

March 22, 2012

Detaching oneself from the past causes uneasiness, anxiety, and instability

March 22, 2012

March 23 – Noble Missionary

March 22, 2012

For 400 years his family had shown honor on the battlefield

March 19, 2012

The Great Captain: Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova

March 15, 2012

Hereditary Transmission of Qualities and Merit as Family Patrimony

March 15, 2012

March 15 – The Angels of the Battlefield call her foundress

March 15, 2012

Don Luis Quijada reveals Don John’s secret to Doña Magdalena: he is the son of the Emperor Charles V

March 12, 2012

Inherited social status tends to form an aristocracy

March 12, 2012

Rank and authority as a source of social status in America

March 8, 2012

Clubs and associations as a source of social status in America

March 5, 2012

He rescued the crucifix after the Muslims threw it into the fire

March 1, 2012

Education as a source of social status in America

March 1, 2012

Lineage as a source of social status in America

February 27, 2012

King Ferdinand lifts the siege of Loja—in the retreat, Don Juan de Ribera twice saves the king

February 23, 2012

Wealth as a source of social status in America

February 23, 2012

Status in American Society: Its Concept and Sources

February 20, 2012

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

February 20, 2012

Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

February 16, 2012

The history of the United States is the history of its directing elites

February 13, 2012

A nobility and loyalty put to the severest test

February 9, 2012

The “Ave Maria” that was nailed to the door of Granada’s mosque

February 6, 2012

Commentaries on how Don Alonso Peres de Guzman sacrificed his own son rather than surrender to the Muslims

February 6, 2012

Pope Blesses Artillery

February 6, 2012

February 7 – This Saintly King Is Father To Three More Saints

February 6, 2012

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

January 30, 2012

The widowed Duchess de Montmorency who became a nun to follow St. Jane Frances de Chantal

January 30, 2012

El Cid is banished from the kingdom of Castile

January 26, 2012

The Tragedy of Marie Adelaide

January 23, 2012

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