France

At the helm during the French Revolution

August 29, 2024

August 19 – St. John Eudes

August 19, 2024

Saint Philibert of Jumièges and Recipes for Hazelnuts Named in His Honor

August 19, 2024

He was one of a network of aristocrat bishops

August 19, 2024

Jean Parisot de La Valette

August 19, 2024

August 14 – Founding Father

August 12, 2024

August 2 – St. Pierre-Julien Eymard

August 1, 2024

Father Jean Le Vacher: Hero and Missionary, Blasted to Death by Muslims

July 29, 2024

Following The Stars To Santiago

July 25, 2024

The French Revolution pitted brother against brother

July 25, 2024

Astonishing adult literacy rates in France before the 1789 French Revolution

July 22, 2024

Effects of the French Revolution on America

July 22, 2024

The Beauty of Life in Social Relationships

July 18, 2024

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

July 18, 2024

July 20 – Carolingian Reformer

July 18, 2024

Princess Louise de France, Daughter of Louis XV, Carmelite

July 15, 2024

Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 15, 2024

Debunking the Myth

July 11, 2024

The Guillotine and Its Servants

July 11, 2024

July 14 – Philip II (Augustus)

July 11, 2024

Controversial Archbishop

July 11, 2024

Ardent Ultramontane

July 11, 2024

Had Louis XVI Listened to His Sister, Madame Elizabeth…

July 8, 2024

July 6 – Mother-in-law Woes

July 4, 2024

The Princess who left court and entered a forest monastery

July 4, 2024

Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

June 27, 2024

Madame Elizabeth ponders the horrors afflicting France during the Revolution

June 24, 2024

June 26 – Chartreuse is not only a drink

June 24, 2024

The Jeanne d’Arc of the Blessed Sacrament

June 20, 2024

The Dauphin’s innocent description of a revolutionary riot

June 20, 2024

She did what St. Ignatius could not

June 6, 2024

June 8 – Saint Cloud

June 6, 2024

He celebrated the first Mass in Quebec

June 6, 2024

June 9 – French opponent to Jansenism and Gallicanism

June 6, 2024

Genesius, Count of Clermont

June 3, 2024

June 6 – St. Claudius

June 3, 2024

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

May 30, 2024

June 3 – Genesius (Bishop of Clermont)

May 30, 2024

After Defeating the Saracens, He Joined the Benedictines

May 27, 2024

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 27, 2024

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

May 23, 2024

May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins

May 23, 2024

Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from Napoleon’s prison

May 23, 2024

One of the most conspicuous figures in Canadian history

May 23, 2024

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

May 20, 2024

Louis XV risks his life for the morale of his troops

May 16, 2024

Queen and Patroness of Alaska

May 16, 2024

May 19 – Patron of lawyers

May 16, 2024

May 15 – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

May 13, 2024

Longing For The Marvelous and Sacralizing Daily Life as a Way of Drawing Closer To God

May 9, 2024

Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Count de Rochambeau

May 9, 2024

The Dauphin’s heroism at Fontenoy

May 9, 2024

Blessed Francis de Montmorency Laval

May 6, 2024

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

May 2, 2024

Post-mortem of a Revolution

May 2, 2024

St. Hugh the Great – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him

April 29, 2024

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 29, 2024

James Beaton

April 22, 2024

April 19 – This German pope led his army against the Normans

April 18, 2024

April 21 – Jean Racine

April 18, 2024

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