Leaders

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

May 26, 2014

May 27 – St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 26, 2014

The crown prince of France is spanked for poor table manners

May 22, 2014

May 23 – Appointed bishop to replace a corrupt one, then imprisoned for defending the King’s legitimate wife

May 22, 2014

May 23 – St. John Baptist de Rossi

May 22, 2014

May 23 – Chevalier of the Order of Leopold

May 22, 2014

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

May 22, 2014

St. Bernard masters the fiery Duke of Aquitaine

May 19, 2014

May 19 – Charlemagne’s Scholar

May 19, 2014

Alexandertorte — the Latvian delight associated with a Tsar

May 19, 2014

May 19 – He Grabbed the Devil By the Nose

May 19, 2014

May 20 – St. Bernardine of Siena

May 19, 2014

May 20 – Mentor of the Duke of Ferrara

May 19, 2014

May 20 – King of the East Angles

May 19, 2014

November 29 – The coronation of St. Louis IX of France

May 15, 2014

May 16 – Leper King

May 15, 2014

May 18 – St. Eric, King of Sweden, Martyr

May 15, 2014

A Dauphin of France learns self-control

May 12, 2014

Honor: Never Leave A Poor Crusader Behind as a Muslim Captive

May 8, 2014

May 8 – When St. Michael Appeared

May 8, 2014

May 8 – Matriarch of the Carolingian family

May 8, 2014

May 10 – Saint Damien: A Hero Who Died on the Battlefield of Honor

May 8, 2014

May 6 – Prince, priest, pioneer

May 5, 2014

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 5, 2014

May 7 – Bl. Agnellus of Pisa

May 5, 2014

May 7 – St. John of Beverley

May 5, 2014

The Count of Blois is scolded by his wife for deserting the Crusade

May 1, 2014

The Necessary Spirit of the Crusader

May 1, 2014

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

May 1, 2014

May 2 – Two sisters of this medieval princess were also saints

May 1, 2014

May 3 – Finding of the Holy Cross

May 1, 2014

May 3 – Sword-bearer to the Emperor

May 1, 2014

May 4 – They believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

May 1, 2014

Louis XIV: Life Is not the Supreme Value

April 28, 2014

Continually Engaged in the Struggle

April 28, 2014

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

April 28, 2014

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 28, 2014

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

April 24, 2014

Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, the Pantheon’s Forgotten One

April 24, 2014

The Need for Fortitude

April 24, 2014

April 25 – Builder

April 24, 2014

Garcia Moreno Refuses His Presidential Salary, Until Ecuador’s Finances Are Balanced

April 21, 2014

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 21, 2014

Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, washes the feet of the poor on Holy Thursday

April 17, 2014

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

April 17, 2014

Queen Mary Welcomes the Sick on Good Friday

April 17, 2014

For Contrast: Two Royal Attitudes to Washing the Feet of the Poor

April 17, 2014

April 17 – One of the many nobles who spread the Cluny reform

April 17, 2014

April 18 – Blessed Marie de l’Incarnation

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

April 10 – Friend of Cluny

April 10, 2014

April 11 – He excommunicated the king, who murdered him as he celebrated Mass

April 10, 2014

April 12 – St. Teresa of the Andes

April 10, 2014

April 12 – Crusader in every sense of the word

April 10, 2014

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

April 10, 2014

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

April 7, 2014

April 7 – Father of Modern Pedagogy

April 7, 2014

April 3 – The man they trusted to collect the Crusader tax

April 3, 2014

April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 3, 2014

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