War

June 15 – The Northern Crusades

June 13, 2013

June 15 – Magna Carta

June 13, 2013

Ferdinand the Catholic conquers the impregnable Ronda from the Moslems

June 10, 2013

Patton on keeping a family spirit in the Staff

June 6, 2013

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 6, 2013

Muley Abul Hacen refuses tribute to the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabel

June 3, 2013

June 3 – She eventually won her husband’s heart to the faith, but then had to witness her children kill each other.

June 3, 2013

May 30 – Most Valiant King

May 30, 2013

May 30 – Maid of Orleans

May 30, 2013

Isabella the Catholic confronts a riotous mob and restores order to Segovia

May 27, 2013

St. Edmund, King and Martyr for his faith and people

May 23, 2013

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 23, 2013

Isabella the Catholic: Spain’s Joan of Arc

May 20, 2013

May 16 – Leper King

May 16, 2013

Alfred the Great’s fighting days started early

May 13, 2013

The Last Battle of the Valiant Don Alonso de Aguilar

May 9, 2013

MacArthur’s “I shall return” becomes the symbol of hope in the Philippines

May 2, 2013

A multi-secular struggle between nobility and leveling egalitarianism

May 2, 2013

9-year-old Crown Prince Alfonso’s first battle against the Moors

April 29, 2013

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

April 29, 2013

April 30 – Crusader Pope

April 29, 2013

Moslem Seville surrenders to Saint Ferdinand

April 18, 2013

April 21 – The Noble Saint who tamed William the Conqueror, abolished slavery in England, and founded Scholasticism; his prayer to Saint Mary Magdalene

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

Christian Civilization

April 8, 2013

Love of Faith and country trump parental love

April 4, 2013

April 4 – Grandmother of the Templars

April 4, 2013

April 1 – Precursor of Our Lady of Fatima

April 1, 2013

March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette

March 28, 2013

March 22 – He stared Hitler in the face and didn’t blink

March 21, 2013

St. Gregory VII’s struggle against Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire)

March 11, 2013

March 2 – Warrior Bishop Prince

February 28, 2013

Patton on keeping the enemy running

February 25, 2013

Fury over Sandhurst”s insult to Mons heroes: Hall renamed after 3million gift from Bahrain king – Lebanon Times

February 21, 2013

Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of the Church Militant

February 18, 2013

The death of the de la Metairie sisters ends the Terror of Nantes

February 18, 2013

Nine Hundred Years of Chivalry for the Knights of Malta

February 14, 2013

Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin

February 11, 2013

Patton on leading from the front

February 7, 2013

February 7 – From Liberal to Anti-liberal

February 7, 2013

February 7 – This Saintly King Is Father To Three More Saints

February 7, 2013

February 10 – He fought socialism in both its Nazi and Soviet form, and paid for it with his life

February 7, 2013

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: “the symbol of the conscience of the American people”

January 31, 2013

Larochejacquelein is killed by the men whose lives he spared

January 28, 2013

January 28 – Great in War and in Peace

January 28, 2013

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

January 24, 2013

German military praise for General Patton’s audacity

January 17, 2013

Wars come and go, but the wine tradition endures

January 14, 2013

Patton: Inspiration Wins Wars

January 10, 2013

St. Joan of Arc: her death liberated France

January 7, 2013

Patton used the power of myth to inspire his men

January 7, 2013

Death of the Vendean generalissimo Maurice d’Elbee

January 3, 2013

January 3 – St. Genevieve

January 3, 2013

December 23 – The Knights of Aviz and Their Cistercian Founder

December 20, 2012

There was a time when war was infused with Christian courtesy

December 20, 2012

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 17, 2012

The prayer Patton commissoned before the Battle of the Bulge

December 13, 2012

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 29, 2012

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