History of Western Civilization

January 2 – The Infant of Prague

January 1, 2026

January 3 – Discoverer of Oregon and of the entire California coast

January 1, 2026

December 23 – The Knights of Aviz and Their Cistercian Founder

December 22, 2025

December 23 – Duke of Guise

December 22, 2025

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 18, 2025

December 17 – St. Sturmius and the diocese of Fulda

December 15, 2025

Bad elites hastened the fall of Constantinople

December 11, 2025

December 4 – From a Muslim court, he opposed the Christian Emperor…and won!

December 4, 2025

November 27 – The king who made France “First-born daughter of the Church”

November 27, 2025

November 28 – Count Louis de Baude Frontenac

November 27, 2025

November 28 – December 27 – Siege of Jasna Góra

November 27, 2025

Christ the King? Or Christ the President?

November 23, 2025

November 18 – He Started the Cluniac Reform

November 17, 2025

November 16 – Commissioned to preach the Sixth Crusade

November 13, 2025

November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

November 10, 2025

November 12 – Kidnapped, sold as a slave, ransomed by a bishop, and confidante of the emperor

November 10, 2025

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

November 3, 2025

Chivalry and Love Of The Fight

October 30, 2025

October 23 – The amazing story of San Juan Capistrano and the Siege of Belgrade

October 23, 2025

October 25 – Crispin and Crispian and the baron of Renty

October 23, 2025

October 20 – Emperor Marcian

October 20, 2025

October 21 – Hammer of Muslim invaders

October 20, 2025

October 18 – The day that sparked the Crusades

October 16, 2025

Why celebrate Columbus Day?

October 13, 2025

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 9, 2025

What is Feudalism?

September 25, 2025

September 24 – “There is nothing so sublime as the papacy nor so exalted as the imperial throne”

September 22, 2025

August 21 – La Vallete

August 21, 2025

August 21 – He was one of a network of aristocrat bishops

August 18, 2025

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 18, 2025

August 15 – Prester John

August 14, 2025

August 5 – Our Lady of the Snow

August 4, 2025

August 5 – The valiant king who waged just war to defend his people

August 4, 2025

July 28 – Nepotism Sometimes Bears Good Fruit

July 28, 2025

Saint Louis, the height of chivalry

July 14, 2025

Military, Social, and Religious History of Chivalry and Knighthood

July 10, 2025

June 14 – The entire population was slaughtered, except those who embraced Islam

June 12, 2025

June 10 – Most Sublime Figure of Portuguese Literature

June 9, 2025

June 11 – Blessed Ignatius Maloyan

June 9, 2025

May 29 – Bartolomeu Dias

May 29, 2025

April 22 – Cabral and the Discovery of Brazil

April 21, 2025

A king, a queen, and England’s Easter dilemma

April 17, 2025

February 20 – Leaders and future nobility appear in times of desperate distress

February 20, 2025

Pope Martin V

February 20, 2025

February 23 – The responsibilities of leadership are heavy

February 20, 2025

Revolution and Counter-Revolution – Twenty Years After – Part III, Chapter I and II

February 17, 2025

February 15 – Ferdinand II, Emperor

February 13, 2025

Do Public Awards and Punishments Dignify and Encourage, or Corrupt and Humiliate?

February 6, 2025

February 4 – Pope Gregory V

February 3, 2025

Charlemagne, Cornerstone of the Middle Ages

January 27, 2025

January 17 – Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

January 16, 2025

January 2 – The Infant of Prague

January 2, 2025

January 3 – Discoverer of Oregon and of the entire California coast

January 2, 2025

Emperor Marcian

October 17, 2024

The Crusades – Part VIII

October 10, 2024

Fr. Frederick William Faber

September 26, 2024

Are Museums Sepulchers for Culture?

September 26, 2024

September 11 – Prince Eugen of Savoy crushes the Turks at Zenta

September 9, 2024

September 11 – His fame will last forever as that of a gallant soldier and a true Christian

September 9, 2024

The Crusades – Part III

August 22, 2024

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