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February 7 – Refused admission to the Pontifical Noble Guard, he became Pope instead

February 4, 2016

February 4 – Wild and dissolute, but then he heard this!

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Sent into Muslim lands, he sought to preach to the Sultan

February 1, 2016

February 4 – Pope Gregory V

February 1, 2016

January 30 – St. Martina

January 28, 2016

January 31 – The Glory of the Ladies

January 28, 2016

January 26 – She was from one of the first families of Rome

January 25, 2016

January 28 – Angelic Doctor, Count

January 25, 2016

January 28 – St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia

January 25, 2016

January 22 – The noble who often returned home barefoot

January 21, 2016

January 25 – Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel

January 21, 2016

January 20 – St. Sebastian

January 18, 2016

January 21 – None was held in such high honor

January 18, 2016

January 16 – When the Emporor insisted that the lapsed be readmitted to communion without penance, one man stood in his way

January 14, 2016

January 16 – The true disciple of St. Francis who sent the Moorish king into a fit of rage

January 14, 2016

January 17 – Sister of the Grand Master of Malta

January 14, 2016

January 9 – Blessed Tommaso Reggio

January 7, 2016

January 11 – Wounded in a duel

January 7, 2016

January 4 – Patroness of those afflicted by sexual temptation

December 31, 2015

December 30 – Princess, Orphan, Foundress

December 28, 2015

December 31 – The patrician girl who befriended St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and the Empress

December 28, 2015

December 27 – The divorced saint

December 24, 2015

December 28 – Ordered to swear allegiance to Napoleon, he replied “I cannot. I ought not. I will not!”

December 24, 2015

December 11 – Pope Falsely Accused of Adultery

December 10, 2015

December 13 – Elected Pope to Fight the Emperor

December 10, 2015

December 13 – The girl named Lucy, opposite of Lucifer

December 10, 2015

November 20 – St. Ambrose of Camaldoli

November 19, 2015

November 21 – Pope St. Gelasius I

November 19, 2015

November 21 – St. Columbanus

November 19, 2015

November 22 – The Eternal Glory of the Caecilia Family

November 19, 2015

November 18 – Sincere, intense, generous, austere, yet affectionate

November 16, 2015

August 13 – The Saintly Pope Who Resigned

November 16, 2015

November 13 – Patroness of missionaries

November 12, 2015

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

November 9, 2015

November 7 – Bl. Bernardine of Fossa

November 5, 2015

November 8 – Four Crowned Martyrs

November 5, 2015

All Hallows Eve – How many saints were noble?

October 29, 2015

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

October 22, 2015

October 18 – Adopted nobility

October 15, 2015

October 9 – Superb and valiant knight

October 8, 2015

October 10 – How to overcome bad ancestry

October 8, 2015

October 10 – St. Paulinus, Archbishop of York

October 8, 2015

October 5 – St. Galla

October 1, 2015

September 30 – The cantankerous noble who became a saint

September 28, 2015

September 28 – Franciscan money lender

September 24, 2015

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

September 21, 2015

September 20 – “Threats do not terrify me”

September 17, 2015

September 15 – This Saint Felt the Pains of Purgatory

September 14, 2015

September 16 – The pope who exacted tribute from the Mohammedan ruler of Tunis

September 14, 2015

September 17 – Noble calm in all controversy, even when correcting the pope

September 14, 2015

September 11 – Italian army invades the Papal State without a declaration of war

September 10, 2015

September 11 – Burned slowly to death at Nagasaki

September 10, 2015

September 8 – He added the Agnus Dei to the Mass

September 7, 2015

September 9 – Wife of a dissolute husband

September 7, 2015

September 10 – St. Pulcheria, Empress, and her husband Marcian

September 7, 2015

September 10 – Model of chastity

September 7, 2015

September 4 – She predicted the speedy death of the emperor

September 3, 2015

September 5 – Unashamed to beg alms even from his noble family

September 3, 2015

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

August 31, 2015

August 23 – St. Philip Benizi

August 20, 2015

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