France

February 18 – Charlemagne’s envoy to the pope

February 15, 2016

February 15 – St. Claude de la Colombière

February 11, 2016

February 11 – St. Benedict of Aniane

February 8, 2016

February 6 – Apostle of Flanders

February 4, 2016

February 8 – Mary Queen of Scots

February 4, 2016

February 8 – A strong and mighty Angel – calm, terrible, and bright – the cross in blended red and blue, upon his mantle white

February 4, 2016

February 2 – “Though in chains, he is as gay as a little bird”

February 1, 2016

February 3 – The Stuff of Which Saints Are Made

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Daughter of one king and wife of another

February 1, 2016

January 29 – Noble enough to cover five contemporary kings with invective

January 28, 2016

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 25, 2016

January 28 – Larochejacquelein killed by the very men whose lives he spared

January 25, 2016

St. Louis Makes the 16-year-old Prince of Antioch a Knight and Helps Him Assume the Reigns of Government

January 21, 2016

January 21 – He was put to death, just for being a king

January 18, 2016

Regal Splendor and Popular Comfort

January 14, 2016

January 16 – Irish Prince and Saint

January 14, 2016

January 13 – The Count Who Converted the King

January 11, 2016

January 14 – The Ten Year Old Saint and Some Of Her Miracles

January 11, 2016

January 6 – St. Roch

January 4, 2016

The Count and The Chimneysweep

December 31, 2015

January 3 – The saint who twice saved Paris

December 31, 2015

December 25 – On Christmas Day, He Died

December 24, 2015

Du Guesclin is Knighted on the Field of Battle

December 10, 2015

December 13 – “The eyes which I must please are a hundred miles from here”

December 10, 2015

December 8 – To overcome his repugnance, he bound himself by vow

December 7, 2015

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 30, 2015

December 1 – Billionaire Saint

November 30, 2015

December 3 – St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies

November 30, 2015

November 28 – Count Louis de Baude Frontenac

November 26, 2015

November 29 – The coronation of St. Louis IX of France

November 26, 2015

November 24 – Intrepid missionaries

November 23, 2015

King of Jordan calls Paris attacks “cowardly”

November 19, 2015

Queen Elizabeth sends condolences to France

November 19, 2015

November 20 – Another strong and mighty angel

November 19, 2015

November 17 – Saint Gregory of Tours

November 16, 2015

November 18 – He Started the Cluniac Reform

November 16, 2015

November 18 – Sincere, intense, generous, austere, yet affectionate

November 16, 2015

November 12 – Constable of France: he fought his entire life and died in battle at age 74

November 9, 2015

Samuel de Champlain: The Chaste Founder of Canada

November 5, 2015

November 6 – Duchess d’Alençon

November 5, 2015

All Hallows Eve – How many saints were noble?

October 29, 2015

October 25 – The original hood

October 22, 2015

St. Louis the Crusader-King Tries to Bring the Tartars to the Catholic Faith

October 15, 2015

October 16 – Marie Antoinette

October 15, 2015

October 16 – Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Capetian Widow

October 15, 2015

October 16 – St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

October 15, 2015

October 17 – The Battle of Cholet

October 15, 2015

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

October 5, 2015

October 3 – Mother Théodore Guérin

October 1, 2015

September 29 – In battle or in prison, he never missed Mass

September 28, 2015

October 1 – St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Chapter IV: First Communion and Confirmation & Chapter V: Vocation of Thérèse

September 28, 2015

The Young Prince And The Officer

September 24, 2015

September 25 – St. Aunarius

September 24, 2015

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

September 24, 2015

September 24 – Founding Father

September 21, 2015

Saint Joan of Arc was a knight, not a “knightess”

September 17, 2015

September 7 – Grandson of Queen St. Clotilda

September 3, 2015

September 1 – St. Giles

August 31, 2015

August 26 – This noblewoman survived the Terror and founded the Daughters of the Cross

August 24, 2015

August 19 – The prince who was made bishop at age 22

August 17, 2015

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