Italy

August 23: He brought peace to Italy’s war-torn city-states in the Middle Ages

August 22, 2016

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

August 18, 2016

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 11, 2016

August 13 – The Ottomans lived in fear of this Capuchin

August 11, 2016

August 13 – The Pope Who Resigned

August 11, 2016

August 13 – The antipope who became a saint

August 11, 2016

August 14 – St. Eusebius, Roman patrician and priest

August 11, 2016

August 9 – Pope St. Victor I

August 8, 2016

August 10 – Defiant under torture, he inspires noble souls until today

August 8, 2016

August 11 – As soldiers scaled the walls of the convent, she met them with ciborium in hand and put them to flight

August 8, 2016

August 5 – Our Lady of the Snow

August 4, 2016

August 6 – Noble widower made pope

August 4, 2016

August 7 – Pope St. Sixtus II

August 4, 2016

August 7 – St. Cajetan

August 4, 2016

Ancient Rome: A State Born From Patriarchal Societies

August 4, 2016

August 2 – Legate to the Emperor laden with responsibilities and threats

August 1, 2016

August 2 – Resisted the Emperor’s demand

August 1, 2016

July 30 – St. Peter Chrysologus

July 28, 2016

July 31 – Soldier of Jesus

July 28, 2016

July 27 – Wanted: Noble Men for the Missions, Never to Return Home

July 25, 2016

July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving

July 21, 2016

July 25 – St. Apollinaris

July 21, 2016

July 21 – Fearless in every sense

July 18, 2016

July 16 – Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 14, 2016

July 17 – When the Saracens attacked Rome…

July 14, 2016

July 18 – Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

July 14, 2016

July 12 – St. John Gualbert and the Vallumbrosan Order

July 11, 2016

July 13 – Author of “The Golden Legend”

July 11, 2016

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 7, 2016

July 9 – St. Veronica Giuliani

July 7, 2016

July 11 – The noble saint who fled the world, but the world ran after him

July 7, 2016

July 5 – He founded the Barnebites and reformed two religious orders, but only lived 37 years

July 4, 2016

July 7 – Only two cardinals dared to stand with the pope

July 4, 2016

June 28 – He fought to preserve the Pope’s independence

June 27, 2016

June 30 – He began a crusade against the immorality of his time

June 27, 2016

June 21 – He Was More Angel than Man

June 20, 2016

June 19 – Love Accepts No Limitations

June 16, 2016

June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

June 16, 2016

June 12 – Saint Guido of Acqui

June 9, 2016

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 9, 2016

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

June 6, 2016

June 2 – Saved from the Byzantine Emperor’s roaster, ironically, by the Moslems

May 30, 2016

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

May 23, 2016

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

May 23, 2016

May 25 – She withstood the devil

May 23, 2016

May 26 – He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”

May 23, 2016

May 20 – St. Bernardine of Siena

May 19, 2016

May 20 – Mentor of the Duke of Ferrara

May 19, 2016

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 16, 2016

May 13 – “Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?”

May 12, 2016

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 5, 2016

May 7 – Bl. Agnellus of Pisa

May 5, 2016

May 8 – When St. Michael Appeared

May 5, 2016

May 9 – St. Nicholas Albergati

May 5, 2016

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 28, 2016

April 26 – Pope St. Cletus

April 25, 2016

April 19 – The saintly warrior pope

April 18, 2016

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 18, 2016

April 13 – Born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and dwarfed

April 11, 2016

April 13 – Pope St. Martin I

April 11, 2016

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