Spain

December 6 – Martyr of the Muslims

December 5, 2024

December 3 – St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies

December 2, 2024

Eleanor of Castile: Daughter of St. Ferdinand and Much Loved Queen of England

November 28, 2024

November 26 – How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 25, 2024

Isabel the Catholic is buried in Granada, the city she conquered for Christianity

November 25, 2024

November 24 – Saint Joseph Mary Pignatelli, S.J.

November 21, 2024

November 7 – Blessed Francis Palau y Quer

November 7, 2024

All Saints’ Day: How many saints were noble?

October 31, 2024

October 30 – St. Marcellus the Centurion, Martyr

October 28, 2024

How Saint Anthony Mary Claret Engaged the Culture of His Times

October 24, 2024

October 24 – Confessor to the Queen

October 24, 2024

Colonel José de Escandón is ennobled for establishing settlers in South Texas

October 17, 2024

October 19 – Prayer was his crime

October 17, 2024

After almost five centuries, St. Teresa of Avila’s body is still incorrupt

October 14, 2024

Interior Castle

October 14, 2024

How to overcome bad ancestry

October 10, 2024

How Don John went into battle

October 7, 2024

October 7 – How the Rosary saved Christendom

October 7, 2024

Lepanto: Turkish might buckles in the grandest naval battle of History

October 7, 2024

In Forming the Holy League, St. Pius V Prepares for Victory at Lepanto

October 7, 2024

Don John of Austria used an ivory crucifix to inspire his men before Lepanto

October 7, 2024

Catholic and Muslim Reactions to the News of the Turkish Defeat at Lepanto

October 7, 2024

D. John’s calm assessment as the Turkish Armada is sighted: “There’s no time for anything but fighting”

October 7, 2024

October 1 – The martial and pious death of Don John of Austria: “A man sent by God”

September 30, 2024

September 24 – Our Lady of Ransom

September 23, 2024

September 17 – St. Peter of Arbues

September 16, 2024

September 11 – Burned slowly to death at Nagasaki

September 9, 2024

Commentaries on how Don Alonso Peres de Guzman sacrificed his own son rather than surrender to the Muslims

August 26, 2024

July 31 – Militant Means Something

July 29, 2024

Following The Stars To Santiago

July 25, 2024

Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 15, 2024

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

July 15, 2024

July 5 – St. Michael de Sanctis

July 4, 2024

June 20 – St. Florentina

June 20, 2024

June 21 – He seemed to resemble an angel clothed with a human body

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

Venerable Marina de Escobar

June 6, 2024

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

May 23, 2024

Christopher Columbus Dies But His Glory Remains

May 20, 2024

April 24 – Gregory Bæticus

April 22, 2024

Battle of Mühlberg

April 22, 2024

April 4 – Patron Saint of Transitions

April 4, 2024

April 5 – Soul on Fire

April 4, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

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

March 28, 2024

St. Leander of Seville

March 11, 2024

March 8 – They buried him with all the honors of a prince

March 7, 2024

February 16 – Ven. Luis de Lapuente

February 15, 2024

Saint Eulalia of Barcelona – February 12

February 12, 2024

January 25 – St. Ildephonsus

January 25, 2024

January 27 – John de Pineda

January 25, 2024

Duke of Alva

January 11, 2024

The Infant of Prague

January 1, 2024

January 3 – Discoverer of Oregon and of the entire California coast

January 1, 2024

Christmas Preparation

December 25, 2023

Son of a disinherited noble – December 14

December 14, 2023

Martyr of the Muslims – St. Peter Paschal

December 4, 2023

St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies – December 3

November 30, 2023

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