History of Western Civilization

An Intelligible Universe

June 19, 2014

Born of Wonder and the Marvelous

June 16, 2014

June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality

June 16, 2014

El Cid

June 16, 2014

The Search for Meaning

June 12, 2014

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 12, 2014

June 15 – The Northern Crusades

June 12, 2014

June 15, 1215 – Magna Carta

June 12, 2014

Supernatural Aspects

June 9, 2014

June 9 – A simple palace servant, God confided to her the destiny of nations

June 9, 2014

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 5, 2014

Defining the Sublime

June 2, 2014

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

June 2, 2014

How Feudalism reformed and revived monasticism: Cluny

June 2, 2014

May 27 – St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 26, 2014

May 28 – St. Germain of Paris

May 26, 2014

May 23 – St. John Baptist de Rossi

May 22, 2014

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

May 22, 2014

May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow

May 22, 2014

The Good, True, and Beautiful

May 19, 2014

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 19, 2014

May 16 – Leper King

May 15, 2014

Returning to the Wellspring

May 12, 2014

May 14 – The Right to Revolt

May 12, 2014

May 8 – When St. Michael Appeared

May 8, 2014

Napoleon meets the tradition of Prince Massimo

May 5, 2014

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

May 1, 2014

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

April 28, 2014

800-year anniversary of the birth of St. Louis IX of France

April 24, 2014

The Spiritual Dimension and Technology

April 17, 2014

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

April 17, 2014

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 17, 2014

St. Louis IX: A King of France Cannot Be Ransomed With Money

April 14, 2014

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

April 7, 2014

Finding the Balance Between Dependence and Self-Sufficiency

April 3, 2014

April 1 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

March 31, 2014

King Baldwin saves the life of a Muslim princess, and his own is then saved by her husband

March 27, 2014

March 26 – One of the distinguished men of his age

March 24, 2014

March 20 – Vendor of Learning

March 20, 2014

Saint Clotilde’s uncle, King Gundobad of the Burgundians, rejects St. Avitus’ invitation to become Catholic

March 17, 2014

March 17 – The Great and Noble Patrick

March 17, 2014

March 13 – There Is No Price Tag on Happiness

March 13, 2014

March 14 – Patroness of Those Falsely Accused

March 13, 2014

March 11 – Saint Sophronius

March 10, 2014

March 6 – Of Kings and Princesses

March 6, 2014

March 6 – Bishop Prime Minister

March 6, 2014

Regional Foods Express Local Culture

March 3, 2014

Leovigild, King of the Visigoths, is instructed by St. Gregory of Tours on the divinity of the Holy Ghost

February 27, 2014

July 18 – She Married a Man to Change Him and He Did

February 27, 2014

March 2 – Warrior Bishop Prince

February 27, 2014

The Formation of Regions

February 24, 2014

An Organic Society Has an Astonishing Self-Sufficiency

February 20, 2014

February 21 – Terror of the Wicked, Supporter of the Weak

February 20, 2014

Subsidiarity and Man’s Pursuit of Self-Sufficiency

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Charlemagne’s envoy to the pope

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Confronted the Emperor and annulled the Robber Council of Ephesus

February 17, 2014

February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth

February 17, 2014

February 14 – Renounced Earthly Nobility To Obtain Heavenly Nobility

February 13, 2014

February 11 – Elected pope while on Crusade in Palestine

February 10, 2014

February 6 – Apostle of Flanders

February 6, 2014

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