Nobility

May 30 – When God chose sides in war between two Christian nations, He sent her to win it

May 30, 2024

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 30, 2024

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

May 30, 2024

June 3 – Genesius (Bishop of Clermont)

May 30, 2024

St. Augustine of Canterbury

May 27, 2024

After Defeating the Saracens, He Joined the Benedictines

May 27, 2024

Captain John Barry, Father of the American Navy, fights and wins a prize

May 27, 2024

May 29 – Intimate friend of St. Athanasius

May 27, 2024

Assassinated in the castle of St. Andrews

May 27, 2024

Saint Laura of Constantinople

May 27, 2024

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

May 23, 2024

May 23 – Chevalier of the Order of Leopold

May 23, 2024

May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins

May 23, 2024

Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from Napoleon’s prison

May 23, 2024

The Cid and King Don Alfonso VI of León and Castile Conquer Toledo

May 23, 2024

One of the most conspicuous figures in Canadian history

May 23, 2024

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

May 23, 2024

May 20 – St. Bernardine of Siena

May 20, 2024

De Soto meets the mighty Mississippi

May 20, 2024

May 21 – The last of his noble lineage, he started a spiritual one

May 20, 2024

May 22 – St. Rita of Cascia

May 20, 2024

Louis XV risks his life for the morale of his troops

May 16, 2024

May 16 – His tireless zeal earned him the name of “Hunter of Souls,” and martyrdom by the Cossacks. Today he is Patron of Poland.

May 16, 2024

The Great Siege of Malta, May 18–September 11, 1565, was won because of one man: Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette

May 16, 2024

May 19 – Patron of lawyers

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

May 13, 2024

May 15 – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac

May 13, 2024

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

May 13, 2024

Noblesse Oblige – Part 2

May 9, 2024

May 9 – Isaias, Prophet and Historian, Sawn in Two

May 9, 2024

Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Count de Rochambeau

May 9, 2024

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 9, 2024

Carthusian Martyrs, the Third Group

May 9, 2024

The Dauphin’s heroism at Fontenoy

May 9, 2024

What Is the Symbol of Nobility and Power? And Why?

May 6, 2024

Blessed Francis de Montmorency Laval

May 6, 2024

Noblesse Oblige – Part 1

May 6, 2024

May 7 – St. John of Beverley

May 6, 2024

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 6, 2024

May 8 – Patron in War

May 6, 2024

May 2 – Economist

May 2, 2024

May 2 – St. Athanasius

May 2, 2024

May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur

May 2, 2024

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

May 2, 2024

May 5 – Arrested for refusing Napoleon a “Te Deum”

May 2, 2024

St. Hugh the Great – In 11th century Christendom, no king or bishop dare oppose him

April 29, 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

April 25-26 – Mother of Good Counsel, who inspired the Albanians to resist the Turks

April 25, 2024

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 25, 2024

April 27 – His artillery instructions saved Goa

April 25, 2024

April 27 – Jesuit missionary in Scotland in the time of the persecutions

April 25, 2024

April 28 – Saint Egbert

April 25, 2024

Cabral and the Discovery of Brazil

April 22, 2024

St. Adalbert of Bohemia

April 22, 2024

April 24 – Gregory Bæticus

April 22, 2024

Battle of Mühlberg

April 22, 2024

James Beaton

April 22, 2024

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