Royal and Noble Saints

May 1 – St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy

April 30, 2015

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

April 30, 2015

May 3 – Finding of the Holy Cross

April 30, 2015

May 3 – Sword-bearer to the Emperor

April 30, 2015

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

April 30, 2015

April 29 – The Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, all trace their existence to this austere monk

April 27, 2015

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

April 27, 2015

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 27, 2015

The Children of St. Margaret at Mass

April 23, 2015

April 24 – Mother Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

April 23, 2015

April 24 – “I came to extirpate heresy, not to embrace it”

April 23, 2015

April 25 – Builder

April 23, 2015

April 26 – Nephew of the Duke of Maqueda

April 23, 2015

April 26 – Pope St. Cletus

April 23, 2015

April 27 – Noble Model of Confidence

April 23, 2015

April 21 – Adventurous in youth and adulthood

April 20, 2015

April 22 – Father of Origen

April 20, 2015

April 23 – The Original Knight in Shining Armor

April 20, 2015

April 23 – Archbishop author of war-song

April 20, 2015

St. Louis and The Holy Name Of God

April 16, 2015

April 17 – He rescued his country from crushing debt, yet waged incessant war

April 16, 2015

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

April 16, 2015

April 17 – St. Stephen Harding

April 16, 2015

April 18 – Blessed Marie de l’Incarnation

April 16, 2015

April 18 – St. Willigis

April 16, 2015

April 19 – Captured by pirates

April 16, 2015

April 19 – The saintly warrior pope

April 16, 2015

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 16, 2015

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 16, 2015

April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

April 16, 2015

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 16, 2015

April 14 – She suffered for the moral corruption and decay of her time

April 13, 2015

April 14 – St. Peter Gonzalez (aka St. Elmo)

April 13, 2015

December 20 – Her church ranks third in Rome

April 13, 2015

April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality

April 13, 2015

April 10 – Friend of Cluny

April 9, 2015

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

April 9, 2015

April 12 – St. Teresa of the Andes

April 9, 2015

April 12 – Crusader in every sense of the word

April 9, 2015

April 12 – Pope St. Julius I

April 9, 2015

April 13 – This Prince Defied His Family

April 9, 2015

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

April 9, 2015

April 13 – Pope St. Martin I

April 9, 2015

April 7 – Father of Modern Pedagogy

April 6, 2015

April 8 – Together with a noble who escaped the Terror, she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame

April 6, 2015

April 9 – She persuaded her husband the Count to become a monk

April 6, 2015

April 9 – Mary of Cleophas

April 6, 2015

St. Peter Chrysologus

April 6, 2015

The King’s Hand

April 2, 2015

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

April 2, 2015

April 4 – Grandmother of the Templars

April 2, 2015

April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 2, 2015

April 5 – St. Æthelburh and the Rose Named After Her

April 2, 2015

April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 2, 2015

April 6 – With his head split open, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo”

April 2, 2015

April 6 – He wrote the genealogy of the Danish kings to disprove the alleged impediment of consanguinity

April 2, 2015

Cornelius, the first baptized Gentile

March 30, 2015

April 1 – Precursor of Our Lady of Fatima

March 30, 2015

April 1 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

March 30, 2015

April 1 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

March 30, 2015

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