War

In saving Don John of Austria’s life, Don Luis Quijada loses his own

July 2, 2012

June 28 – To Avoid Their Desecration, He Ordered the Relics of the Saints to be Brought Inside the Walls

June 28, 2012

June 25 – Simon de Montfort

June 25, 2012

June 27 – The Saint-King elected to lead the First Crusade

June 25, 2012

Through self-mastery, Don John of Austria saves the Catholic fleet from self-destruction

June 14, 2012

June 15 – Battle of Lyndanisse during the Northern Crusades

June 14, 2012

Queen Elizabeth II bestows gallantry honor on Royal Gurkha

June 11, 2012

Captain John Barry, Father of the American Navy, fights and wins a prize

June 7, 2012

June 7 – The Crusaders reach the walls of Jerusalem

June 7, 2012

The death of Saint Ferdinand III, the very noble King of Castile and Leon

May 28, 2012

Mahomet II conquered Constantinople but could not subdue Scanderbeg and Albania

May 24, 2012

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

May 24, 2012

May 25 – The Emperor Must Wait in the Snow

May 24, 2012

May 16 – Crusader King and Leper

May 14, 2012

May 8 – Patron in War

May 7, 2012

The death of Bayard, the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche

April 30, 2012

April 30 – Crusader Pope

April 30, 2012

General MacArthur confronts President Roosevelt to save the U.S. Army

April 26, 2012

The Catholic Kings’ demand for payment of tribute arrears is rebuffed by Muley Abul Hassan, King of Granada

April 16, 2012

Don John of Austria runs away from Court to join the Spanish fleet headed to the relief of Malta

April 12, 2012

April 1 – Noble and Holy Constable

March 29, 2012

Gonzalo de Cordoba storms Huejar to put down a Moorish insurrection

March 29, 2012

March 29 – “I have fought for God and king, and it is for them that I am going to die”

March 29, 2012

Muley Abul Hassan’s last desperate effort to recapture Alhama, and the lifting of its siege by the Duke of Medina Sidonia

March 5, 2012

March 2 – Warrior Bishop Prince

March 1, 2012

King Ferdinand lifts the siege of Loja—in the retreat, Don Juan de Ribera twice saves the king

February 23, 2012

The Duke of Guise throws himself into Poitiers to defend the city

February 20, 2012

Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

February 16, 2012

The “Ave Maria” that was nailed to the door of Granada’s mosque

February 6, 2012

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

February 6, 2012

February 7 – Liberal to Anti-liberal

February 6, 2012

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

February 6, 2012

January 28 – Fifty Years of War

January 26, 2012

Scanderbeg defeats Mahomet II and dies leaving Albania orphan

January 16, 2012

January 6 – St. Joan of Arc was born on this day over 600 years ago

January 5, 2012

December 19 – Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 19, 2011

Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon, Marques of Cadiz, takes Alhama by storm

December 5, 2011

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

December 1, 2011

Lessons in Psychological Warfare – Siege of Jasna Góra, November 28-December 27, 1655

November 28, 2011

November 25 – The Battle of Montgisard

November 24, 2011

When the fighting is over, there are no enemies, only men

November 21, 2011

November 12 – Constable of France: he fought his entire life and died in battle at age 74

November 10, 2011

Video Tribute to Colonel John Ripley (USMC)

November 10, 2011

Athanase de Charette and the Battle of Mentana

November 3, 2011

October 27 – This Christian King Invaded Arabia

October 27, 2011

October 21 – In battle they called him “The Hammer”

October 20, 2011

October 7 – How the Rosary saved Christendom

October 6, 2011

Frederick II, the beginning of the decline for chivalry

October 3, 2011

The standard-bearer who was honored with a reprimand

September 29, 2011

September 29 – In battle or in prison, he never missed Mass

September 29, 2011

El Cid: A living legend who was the beating heart of the Spanish Reconquista

September 26, 2011

September 12 – The Holy Name of the Virgin Mary; in thanksgiving for the victory over the Turks at Vienna

September 12, 2011

In Honor of the 1683 Battle of Vienna

September 12, 2011

Video – Sobieski at Vienna 1683

September 12, 2011

September 2-3 – The September Martyrs of the French Revolution, Blessed John du Lau and Companions

September 1, 2011

The panache of a French grenadier

August 29, 2011

August 25 – The King who would rather die than sin

August 25, 2011

Two heroic deaths honor nobility of blood and nobility of soul

August 22, 2011

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 22, 2011

The Great Siege of Malta, May 18–September 11, 1565, was won because of one man: Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette

August 18, 2011

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