Royal and Noble Saints

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

August 21, 2014

August 24 – Chancellor of the court

August 21, 2014

August 18 – The Empress who found the True Cross

August 18, 2014

August 19 – Prince made bishop at age 22

August 18, 2014

August 20 – The Knights Templar owe him

August 18, 2014

August 20 – Saint Philibert of Jumièges and Recipes for Hazelnuts Named in His Honor

August 18, 2014

August 16 – His incorrupt right hand is treasured as the most sacred relic in Hungary

August 14, 2014

August 16 – Apostle of the North

August 14, 2014

August 17 – Her great beauty aroused the jealousy of the queen

August 14, 2014

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

August 11, 2014

August 12 – St. Jane Frances de Chantal

August 11, 2014

August 12 – He opposed royal absolutism

August 11, 2014

August 13 – The Ottomans lived in fear of this Capuchin

August 11, 2014

August 13 – Crusader nun

August 11, 2014

St. Louis IX humbly accepts a woman’s upbraiding

August 7, 2014

Rabbit St. Dominic

August 7, 2014

August 7 – St. Cajetan

August 7, 2014

August 8 – The Rosary as a weapon

August 7, 2014

August 8 – He told his king that anyone who betrays Jesus could betray their king

August 7, 2014

August 10 – “Turn me over. That side is cooked.”

August 7, 2014

August 10 – His sister founded the Conceptionists

August 7, 2014

Heroic mother and sons stopped an evil King — the story of the Maccabees

August 4, 2014

August 6 – Garcia Moreno: Heroic President of Ecuador

August 4, 2014

August 6 – He told his assassins “God does not die!”

August 4, 2014

August 6 – Noble widower made pope

August 4, 2014

July 31 – St. Germain

July 31, 2014

July 31 – St. Helen of Sköfde

July 31, 2014

August 1 – From impoverished Neapolitan nobility to Doctor of the Church

July 31, 2014

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

July 31, 2014

August 3 – Secretive Leader

July 31, 2014

July 29 – He regained the hearts of his people only after his death

July 28, 2014

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 28, 2014

July 30 – Patron of Charcoal

July 28, 2014

St. Louis IX accepts correction from a beggar

July 24, 2014

July 24 – Chaste Queen

July 24, 2014

July 24 – Fearless, Courageous, Unswerving

July 24, 2014

July 24 – St. John Boste

July 24, 2014

July 26 – Blessed John Ingram

July 24, 2014

July 27 – Wanted: Noble Men for the Missions, Never to Return Home

July 24, 2014

What Weight Should Be Given to St. Thomas Aquinas’s Arguments Against Equality?

July 21, 2014

July 22 – With his lady’s permission, this lord left court to become a monk, then abbot

July 21, 2014

July 23 – The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdom

July 21, 2014

July 17 – When the Saracens attacked Rome…

July 17, 2014

July 17 – Martyred in the Name of Equality

July 17, 2014

July 18 – “Don’t drink water, drink beer” said the bishop

July 17, 2014

July 19 – The knight who was afraid of water, but not afraid of martyrdom

July 17, 2014

July 19 – Her whole family became saints

July 17, 2014

July 19 – Penitent Nobility

July 17, 2014

July 14 – The Lily of the Mohawks

July 14, 2014

July 15 – After conversion, he ordered the statues of the pagan gods chopped up and burned

July 14, 2014

July 16 – Alfonso VIII of Castile crushes the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa

July 14, 2014

King Saint Ferdinand Rides to the Conquest of Córdoba

July 10, 2014

July 10 – Seven Holy Noble Brethren

July 10, 2014

July 10 – Charlemagne Was Punished for His Rudeness to Her

July 10, 2014

July 11 – The noble saint who fled the world, but the world ran after him

July 10, 2014

July 12 – St. John Gualbert and the Vallumbrosan Order

July 10, 2014

July 13 – Saintly Elite

July 10, 2014

July 13 – Good King Henry

July 10, 2014

July 13 – Author of “The Golden Legend”

July 10, 2014

July 13 – Saint Mildthryth

July 10, 2014

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