France

July 30 – St. Theobald

July 29, 2021

July 31 – St. Germain

July 29, 2021

August 2 – St. Pierre-Julien Eymard

July 29, 2021

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 26, 2021

Examples of the Personal Charity of Marie Antoinette

July 22, 2021

July 20 – Carolingian Reformer

July 19, 2021

July 21 – He raised the king’s son back to life, but wished to be buried among the criminals

July 19, 2021

July 22 – With his lady’s permission, this lord left court to become a monk, then abbot

July 19, 2021

How Marie Antoinette Treated Wheat Farmers

July 15, 2021

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 15, 2021

July 18 – “Don’t drink water, drink beer” said the bishop

July 15, 2021

July 13 – Saintly Elite

July 12, 2021

July 13 – The Crusaders attack Jerusalem

July 12, 2021

July 12 – Aristocrat Missionary to the United States of America

July 8, 2021

July 6 – Mother-in-law Woes

July 5, 2021

July 7 – The Princess who left court and entered a forest monastery

July 5, 2021

July 1 – The Marquis of Lescure destroys two thirds of Westermann’s army and saves the lives of captured enemy soldiers

July 1, 2021

July 4 – Unsung American Hero

July 1, 2021

July 4 – St. Bertha of Blangy

July 1, 2021

July 1 – St. Gal

June 28, 2021

Abandoning The Court To Live For God

June 24, 2021

June 25 – Simon de Montfort

June 24, 2021

June 28 – St. Irenaeus

June 24, 2021

June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola

June 21, 2021

June 19 – St. Jean-Louis Bonnard

June 17, 2021

June 19 – Bl. Odo of Cambrai

June 17, 2021

June 19 – St. François-Isidore Gagelin

June 17, 2021

June 16 – Death threats meant nothing to him

June 14, 2021

June 11 – St. Godeberta

June 10, 2021

June 8 – She did what St. Ignatius could not

June 7, 2021

France’s Fleeting Love For Their Queen

June 3, 2021

June 5 – Franciscan preacher of crusade

June 3, 2021

June 5 – Genesius, Count of Clermont

June 3, 2021

June 6 – St. Claudius

June 3, 2021

June 3 – She had to witness her children kill each other

May 31, 2021

June 3 – Genesius (Bishop of Clermont)

May 31, 2021

May 28 – After Defeating the Saracens, He Joined the Benedictines

May 27, 2021

May 28 – St. Germain of Paris

May 27, 2021

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 27, 2021

May 30 – When God chose sides in war between two Christian nations, He sent her to win it

May 27, 2021

May 21 – The last of his noble lineage, he started a spiritual one

May 20, 2021

May 21 – Missionary to the Mohammedans

May 20, 2021

May 23 – Appointed bishop to replace a corrupt one, then imprisoned for defending the King’s legitimate wife

May 20, 2021

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 20, 2021

May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins

May 20, 2021

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 17, 2021

The Importance of Milestones

May 13, 2021

May 15 – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

May 13, 2021

May 15 – Saint’s biographer

May 13, 2021

May 16 – St. Honoratus of Amiens

May 13, 2021

May 16 – Flos Carmeli

May 13, 2021

May 11 – Holy Merovingian

May 10, 2021

May 8 – First they took the nobles, then they took the scientists

May 6, 2021

May 10 – French or American?

May 6, 2021

May 5 – St. Hilary of Arles

May 3, 2021

May 6 – Saint Francis de Montmorency Laval

May 3, 2021

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 29, 2021

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

April 29, 2021

April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk

April 26, 2021

April 29 – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him

April 26, 2021

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