Monarchy

July 14 – Philip II (Augustus)

July 11, 2024

Had Louis XVI Listened to His Sister, Madame Elizabeth…

July 8, 2024

July 3 – The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor for Not Opposing Heresy

July 1, 2024

Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

June 27, 2024

What is Feudalism?

June 27, 2024

June 27 – The Saint-King elected to lead the First Crusade

June 27, 2024

St. Ladislaus – Chivalrous King

June 27, 2024

June 28 – To Avoid Their Desecration, He Ordered the Relics of the Saints to be Brought Inside the Walls

June 27, 2024

Servant of God Maria Clotilde of Savoy

June 24, 2024

St. Etheldreda

June 20, 2024

The Admiration of the English Golden Boy

June 20, 2024

Three Monarchs: Two Saints and a Tyrant – Part I

June 17, 2024

Blessed Theresa of Portugal

June 17, 2024

St. Ignatius in London as the storm gathers

June 13, 2024

The Tragedy of Marie Adelaide

June 13, 2024

The Northern Crusades

June 13, 2024

The Pizza That Was Named For A Queen – Recipe

June 10, 2024

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 10, 2024

A dethroned Queen’s dignity amidst defeat

June 3, 2024

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

May 30, 2024

She had to witness her children kill each other

May 30, 2024

First Pope to transform a pagan temple of Rome into a Christian church

May 23, 2024

Louis XV risks his life for the morale of his troops

May 16, 2024

Catholic, Crusader, Leper and King: The Life of Baldwin IV and the Triumph of the Cross

May 16, 2024

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 16, 2024

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

May 16, 2024

Prince perplexed by reception of communists in Vatican

May 13, 2024

Medieval Noble Parents Gave Their Boys Heroic Role Models

May 13, 2024

May 14, 1264: Simon de Montfort Defeats King Henry III at Battle of Lewes

May 13, 2024

The Queen’s German prince and the beef recipe in his honor

May 9, 2024

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 6, 2024

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 29, 2024

April 30, 2017 – 170th anniversary of the Archduke who discovered how to defeat Napoleon

April 29, 2024

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 29, 2024

Battle of Mühlberg

April 22, 2024

April 19 – This German pope led his army against the Normans

April 18, 2024

The Annunciation: He is King by right, and also by conquest

April 8, 2024

The Annunciation: “Of His Kingdom, there shall be no end.”

April 8, 2024

Richard I, King Of England

April 4, 2024

April 6 – Son of the great Hunyady

April 4, 2024

April 1 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

April 1, 2024

On Holy Thursday, King Saint Ferdinand washes the feet of twelve poor men

March 28, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

Queen Mary washes the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday

March 28, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

Queen Mary Welcomes the Sick on Good Friday

March 28, 2024

The Crown of Thorns, in Paris

March 28, 2024

Easter in Imperial Russia: the Royal Doors

March 28, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

King Stanislaus and Lent

March 25, 2024

Royals commemorate Korean War veterans

March 21, 2024

Our Lady is the flower and pearl of Creation

March 21, 2024

Saint Edward the Martyr

March 18, 2024

Pope St. Zachary

March 14, 2024

March 11 – Constantine the Great

March 11, 2024

Euthanasia Brings End to Belgian Monarchy

March 7, 2024

Kunigundenringe-recipe for Saint Cunegund rings

February 29, 2024

February 28 – Pope Saint Hilarus

February 26, 2024

How Marie Antoinette gave prestige to the potato – and a potato recipe from the French royal court

February 22, 2024

February 23 – The responsibilities of leadership are heavy

February 22, 2024

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