Italy

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 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

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

August 20, 2015

August 14 – St. Eusebius, Roman patrician and priest

August 13, 2015

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

August 10, 2015

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 10, 2015

August 13 – The Ottomans lived in fear of this Capuchin

August 10, 2015

August 7 – St. Cajetan

August 6, 2015

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

August 6, 2015

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

July 30, 2015

July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving

July 23, 2015

5th Centennial of the birth of the “Second Apostle of Rome”

July 20, 2015

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

July 13, 2015

July 9 – St. Veronica Giuliani

July 6, 2015

July 3 – The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor, But Not For Heresy

July 2, 2015

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

July 2, 2015

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

June 29, 2015

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

June 25, 2015

June 25 – St. William of Vercelli

June 22, 2015

June 12 – Saint Guido of Acqui

June 11, 2015

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

June 8, 2015

June 10 – Anti-pagan Renaissance Saint

June 8, 2015

June 4 – St. Francis Caracciolo

June 1, 2015

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