Spain

El Cid Is Besieged in Valencia by King Yusuf of Morocco and a Large Army of Moors

February 2, 2023

El Cid’s Wife and Daughters Join Him in Valencia

January 19, 2023

January 22 – Defended by a raven

January 19, 2023

January 19 – James Lainez

January 16, 2023

January 19 – Archbishop Senator of the Spanish Kingdom

January 16, 2023

January 12 – Duke of Alva

January 9, 2023

January 12 – Prominent Jesuit Missionary in Early Mexico

January 9, 2023

A Fighting Bishop Joins El Cid in Valencia

January 5, 2023

December 25 – On Christmas Day, He Died

December 22, 2022

December 14 – Son of a disinherited noble

December 12, 2022

December 11 – Her Name Was “Mother Marvelous”

December 8, 2022

December 6 – Martyr of the Muslims

December 5, 2022

Philip II’s Disinterestedness Made the Holy League Possible

December 1, 2022

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

December 1, 2022

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

November 24, 2022

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

November 21, 2022

El Cid Rejoices With His Good Fortune

November 17, 2022

The Enemies of El Cid Poison King Alfonso VI of Castile Against Him Again

November 3, 2022

November 7 – Blessed Francis Palau y Quer

November 3, 2022

October 30 – St. Marcellus the Centurion, Martyr

October 27, 2022

El Cid Repays His Loan, Redeeming His Pawned Sand-Filled Chests

October 20, 2022

October 24 – Confessor to the Queen

October 20, 2022

October 19 – Barefoot from Spain to Rome

October 17, 2022

October 15 – Interior Castle

October 13, 2022

October 7 – Lepanto: Turkish might buckles in the grandest naval battle of History

October 6, 2022

October 9 – St. Louis Bertrand

October 6, 2022

October 10 – How to overcome bad ancestry

October 6, 2022

Why celebrate Columbus Day?

October 6, 2022

Columbus, and how to make Key Lime Pie

October 6, 2022

Who Was Christopher Columbus, and Why Is He Important?

October 6, 2022

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

September 29, 2022

September 20 – Court preacher to Charles V

September 19, 2022

September 22 – He especially sought out impoverished nobles who shrank from asking alms

September 19, 2022

September 17 – St. Peter of Arbues

September 15, 2022

September 19 – She begged donations to ransom Christian captives

September 15, 2022

How El Cid Tuned a Cowardly Knight Into a Hero

September 8, 2022

September 11 – Burned slowly to death at Nagasaki

September 8, 2022

August 31 – Born of a dead mother

August 29, 2022

El Cid Becomes Lord of Valencia

August 25, 2022

August 23 – Cardinal-General

August 22, 2022

August 24 – St. María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament

August 22, 2022

August 25 – He opened the first public free school in Europe

August 22, 2022

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

August 15, 2022

Conscious of His Son’s Softness, Philip II of Spain Gives Him a Last Lesson From His Death Bed

August 11, 2022

El Cid Gives Valencia to King Alfonso

August 4, 2022

August 7 – The Emperor who considered Christianity a crime worthy of death

August 4, 2022

August 8 – The Rosary is really a weapon

August 4, 2022

July 31 – Soldier of Jesus

July 28, 2022

The Almoravid King of Seville Attacks El Cid in Valencia and Is Routed

July 21, 2022

July 16 – Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 14, 2022

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

July 14, 2022

July 14 – St. Francis Solanus

July 11, 2022

July 5 – St. Michael de Sanctis

July 4, 2022

July 4 – Patroness of victims of adultery, jealousy and unfaithfulness

June 30, 2022

June 12 – A certain nobleman had a concubine

June 9, 2022

June 9 – Mystic

June 6, 2022

El Cid Defeats Two Moorish Kings

June 2, 2022

May 28 – Lily of Quito

May 26, 2022

May 30 – Most Valiant King

May 26, 2022

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

May 12, 2022

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