France

The Squire Was Usually Dubbed a Knight at Twenty-One

August 6, 2020

August 8 – Missionary in the court of the Chinese Emperor

August 6, 2020

August 8 – Princes, prelates, and priests revealed their consciences to him

August 6, 2020

July 31 – St. Germain

July 30, 2020

August 2 – St. Pierre-Julien Eymard

July 30, 2020

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 27, 2020

July 30 – St. Theobald

July 27, 2020

July 25 – St. Apollinaris

July 23, 2020

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

July 20, 2020

Dispelling the “Tyrannical” Myth

July 16, 2020

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 16, 2020

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

July 16, 2020

July 20 – Carolingian Reformer

July 16, 2020

July 12 – Aristocrat Missionary to the United States of America

July 9, 2020

July 13 – Saintly Elite

July 9, 2020

July 4 – Unsung American Hero

July 2, 2020

July 4 – St. Bertha of Blangy

July 2, 2020

July 6 – Mother-in-law Woes

July 2, 2020

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

June 29, 2020

July 1 – St. Gal

June 29, 2020

Remarks by HRH The Prince of Wales on the 80th Anniversary of General de Gaulle’s “Appel” of 18th June 1940

June 25, 2020

June 26 – Chartreuse is not only a drink

June 25, 2020

June 28 – St. Irenaeus

June 25, 2020

June 25 – Simon de Montfort

June 22, 2020

Saint Louis IX of France Pays Restitution for the Corruption and Misdeeds of His Agents and Judges

June 18, 2020

June 19 – St. Jean-Louis Bonnard

June 18, 2020

June 19 – Bl. Odo of Cambrai

June 18, 2020

June 19 – St. François-Isidore Gagelin

June 18, 2020

June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola

June 18, 2020

June 16 – Death threats meant nothing to him

June 15, 2020

June 15 – St. Bernard dogs carry his name

June 11, 2020

June 11 – St. Godeberta

June 8, 2020

Saint Louis IX, the Crusader-King, Was a Peacemaker Among Christians

June 4, 2020

June 5 – Genesius, Count of Clermont

June 4, 2020

June 6 – St. Claudius

June 4, 2020

June 8 – She did what St. Ignatius could not

June 4, 2020

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

June 1, 2020

June 3 – Genesius (Bishop of Clermont)

June 1, 2020

With Saint Joan of Arc at His Side, Charles VII Is Crowned King of France

May 28, 2020

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 28, 2020

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

May 28, 2020

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

May 25, 2020

May 28 – St. Germain of Paris

May 25, 2020

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

May 21, 2020

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 18, 2020

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

May 18, 2020

May 21 – Missionary to the Mohammedans

May 18, 2020

May 15 – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

May 14, 2020

May 16 – St. Honoratus of Amiens

May 14, 2020

May 16 – Flos Carmeli

May 14, 2020

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

May 7, 2020

May 10 – French or American?

May 7, 2020

May 11 – Holy Merovingian

May 7, 2020

May 5 – St. Hilary of Arles

May 4, 2020

May 6 – Saint Francis de Montmorency Laval

May 4, 2020

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 30, 2020

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

April 30, 2020

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 27, 2020

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

April 27, 2020

Saint Joan of Arc’s Glory Outshines That of All Medieval Heroes

April 23, 2020

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