History of Western Civilization

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

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 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

August 24 – Saint Bartholomew’s Day: the real story

August 22, 2024

The Crusades – Part II

August 15, 2024

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Saves the Philippines from the Invading Dutch Fleet – Part 2

July 25, 2024

Unconditionality in a Crusade

July 25, 2024

The Siege of Belgrade (1456)

July 22, 2024

What is Feudalism?

June 27, 2024

June 17 – Sobieski

June 17, 2024

Three Monarchs: Two Saints and a Tyrant – Part I

June 17, 2024

The entire population was slaughtered, except those who embraced Islam

June 13, 2024

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 6, 2024

She had to witness her children kill each other

May 30, 2024

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

May 23, 2024

May 15 – William Lockhart

May 13, 2024

Noblesse Oblige – Part 2

May 9, 2024

Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Count de Rochambeau

May 9, 2024

Noblesse Oblige – Part 1

May 6, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

March 11 – Constantine the Great

March 11, 2024

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 25, 2024

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

January 1, 2024

Henri I De Lorraine – Duke of Guise

December 21, 2023

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

November 27, 2023

How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 23, 2023

St. Desiderius of Cahors

November 13, 2023

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

November 2, 2023

October 23 – Knight, Lawyer, Governor, Ambassador, Friar, Prisoner, Reformer, Crusader General, Renaissance Saint

October 23, 2023

April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg

April 20, 2023

April 24 – Pope Benedict XII

April 20, 2023

First recorded Mass in the Americas: January 6, 1494 at La Isabela, Dominican Republic

January 5, 2023

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

January 2, 2023

December 23 – The Knights of Aviz and Their Cistercian Founder

December 22, 2022

The Family at the Origin of Feudalism – Continued

September 8, 2022

The Family at the Origin of Feudalism

September 1, 2022

June 15 – Magna Carta

June 13, 2022

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