Short Stories
Isabella the Catholic: Spain’s Joan of Arc
May 20, 2013
Alfred the Great’s fighting days started early
May 13, 2013
Archduke Albrecht: an elite soul
May 6, 2013
Columbus raises a Cross in Hispaniola and miracles follow
April 25, 2013
Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin
April 22, 2013
Moslem Seville surrenders to Saint Ferdinand
April 18, 2013
Patton’s Leadership Demanded Discipline
April 15, 2013
The “Great Captain” Gonsalvo de Cordoba: an unmatched leader
April 11, 2013
Ferdinand the Catholic exposes himself to defend his men
April 8, 2013
Love of Faith and country trump parental love
April 4, 2013
Queen Isabel tames her quarrelsome nobles
April 1, 2013
March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette
March 28, 2013
Kings should teach their people to shun sin
March 25, 2013
Elites should be exemplars of virtue
March 21, 2013
A real duchess rebukes a counterfeit Emperor
March 18, 2013
March 20 – Homeless Noble Poet
March 18, 2013
For Marie Antoinette, it was a baby, not a blob of tissue
March 14, 2013
Queen Isabel meets her confessor
March 7, 2013
How a Pope buys firewood from a poor beggar girl
March 4, 2013
“The Dragon-Slayer” Knight of Rhodes
February 28, 2013
Patton on keeping the enemy running
February 25, 2013
The death of the de la Metairie sisters ends the Terror of Nantes
February 18, 2013
The portress who forgave the revolutionary murderer of her only son
February 14, 2013
Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin
February 11, 2013
Patton on leading from the front
February 7, 2013
Priest rebukes King publicly during Holy Week ceremony
February 4, 2013
German military praise for General Patton’s audacity
January 17, 2013
Wars come and go, but the wine tradition endures
January 14, 2013
The Seneschal de Joinville gives good counsel to Saint Louis IX
January 10, 2013
St. Joan of Arc: her death liberated France
January 7, 2013
General Washington was among the first pioneers going West
December 31, 2012
A brave and good counselor is a king’s priceless treasure
December 27, 2012
Empress Sisi’s Christmas for the poor
December 24, 2012
There was a time when war was infused with Christian courtesy
December 20, 2012
Paris and all of France rejoice at the birth of a Crown Prince
December 17, 2012
The prayer Patton commissoned before the Battle of the Bulge
December 13, 2012
Empress Sisi’s secret visits to the poor
December 10, 2012
Bravery and charity in a French Prince: the Duke of Berry
December 6, 2012
The deathbed advice Louis XIV gave his great-grandson and heir
December 3, 2012
Siege of Jasna Góra, November 28-December 27, 1655
November 29, 2012
A French heir to the throne saves a man from suicide
November 26, 2012
A French Prince becomes the Good Samaritan of a hurt soldier
November 22, 2012
Empress Sissi was fearless in epidemics
November 19, 2012
Henry the Navigator Inaugurates the Age of Discovery
November 12, 2012
Prince Eugen of Savoy crushes the Turks at Zenta
November 1, 2012
General Patton stuns Marshall Zhukov into silence
October 29, 2012
