Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 October 2012

Saint Jude and Me

›
"Hope doth lead from day to day." - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England (1507-1536) Today is the feast day of Saint Jude the Apostl...
4 comments:
Saturday, 21 April 2012

Saint Jude

›
Saint Jude the Apostle, identified with Thaddaeus the Apostle by some (but not all) historians of the Church, was one of the Twelve Ap...
1 comment:
Sunday, 24 April 2011

"Vision" (2010)

›
Novelist Elena Maria Vidal reviews the new German language film Vision , about the life of Saint Hildegard von Bingen, "one  of the m...
2 comments:
Thursday, 17 March 2011

For God and Saint Patrick

›
I  love  this day. On days like this, it's often difficult to know what to say without offending somebody. The welt marks left on eve...
2 comments:
Monday, 24 January 2011

The Patron Saint of Writers

›
Today is the feast day of Saint François de Sales, the patron saint of writers. François was born into the French aristocracy during the rei...
6 comments:
Sunday, 23 January 2011

Daughter of Riches: The Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and Queen of England (Part I)

›
“Reared with abundance of all delights, you had a taste for luxury and refinement and enjoyed a royal liberty. You lived richly in your own ...
8 comments:
Sunday, 12 December 2010

Faith, Reason and the Virgin Birth

›
".... There is much confusion as to the precise meaning of the Virgin Birth.  It is not to be confused with the Virginal Conception of...
3 comments:
Sunday, 7 November 2010

The Other Queen: The Life of Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England

›
"In many ways, Matilda of Boulogne was a model consort. As a regent, diplomat, warrior, counsellor and mother, she occupies a position ...
8 comments:
Tuesday, 2 November 2010

November 2nd, 1755: The Birth of Marie-Antoinette

›
"Her Majesty has been very happily delivered of a small, but completely healthy, Archduchess."   - Count   Khevenhüller, Court Cha...
2 comments:
Monday, 1 November 2010

November 1st: The Feast of All Saints

›
From the blog Cross of Laeken comes a prayer for today's feast - the Feast of All Saints - with an illustration of one of my favourite...
2 comments:
Thursday, 28 October 2010

The Queen and the Tsarina

›
"Both women were vilified in ways that transcended all reality by their political enemies. In order to pull apart a family, destroy th...
5 comments:
Friday, 24 September 2010

September 24th: The Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham

›
 Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, with its cult centre in Norfolk, England. There are currently two churches in Walsingham - on...
9 comments:
Friday, 13 August 2010

Daughter of the Church: The Life of Matilda of Scotland, Queen of England

›
"From the time England first became subject to kings, out of all the queens none was found to be comparable to her, and none will be f...
2 comments:
Saturday, 17 July 2010

Sixteen Nuns Slaughtered on the Steps of the Guillotine

›
"I learned from a person who was a witness to their martyrdom that the youngest of these good Carmelites was called first and that she ...
Tuesday, 6 July 2010

July 6th, 1535: The Execution of Sir Thomas More

›
Today marks the anniversary of the beheading of Sir Thomas More ( above ), the former confidante and adviser of King Henry VIII of England. ...
10 comments:
Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Early Christian icons uncovered

›
Firstly, a word of condolence to the Northern Irish blogger, "Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland," whose posts on the history of t...