Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

October 19 – Founding Fathers

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:10:39 +0000

St. Isaac Jogues French missionary, born at Orléans, France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at Ossernenon, in the present State of New York, 18 October, 1646. He was the first Catholic priest who ever came to Manhattan Island (New York). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1624 and, after having been professor of literature at […]

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October 19 – This Earl was found guilty of praying, and starved to death in the Tower

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:05:40 +0000

Saint Philip Howard Martyr, Earl of Arundel; born at Arundel House, London, 28 June 1557, died in the Tower of London, 19 October, 1595. He was the grandson of Henry, Earl of Surrey, the poet, executed by Henry VIII in 1547, and son of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk executed by Elizabeth 1572. Philip II of […]

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October 20 – Emperor Marcian

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:00:55 +0000

Marcian (Marcianus, Μαρκιᾶνος), Roman Emperor at Constantinople, born in Thrace about 390; died January, 457. He became a soldier; during his early life he was poor, and it is said that he arrived at Constantinople with only two hundred pieces of gold, which he had borrowed. He served in the army under Ardaburius the Alan […]

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The Catholic Knight Who Stopped Slavery in West Africa

tfpks — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:55:42 +0000

By Joanna Bogle The Catholic cemetery at Mortlake in South West London has an agreeably rural feel, and is worth a visit: it’s about 20 minutes from Waterloo on the line going down to Richmond, and a short walk from the station. It is chiefly famous for the large stone, tent-shaped tomb of the 19th-century […]

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

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:50:56 +0000

Charles Martel Born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741. He was the natural son of Pepin of Herstal and a woman named Alpaïde or Chalpaïde. Pepin, who died in 714, had outlived his two legitimate sons, Drogon and Grimoald, and to Theodoald, a son of the latter and then only […]

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October 21 – Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:45:28 +0000

(Also known as Carlo d’Austria, Charles of Austria) Born August 17, 1887, in the Castle of Persenbeug in the region of Lower Austria, his parents were the Archduke Otto and Princess Maria Josephine of Saxony, daughter of the last King of Saxony. Emperor Francis Joseph I was Charles’ Great Uncle. Charles was given an expressly […]

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

tfpks — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:40:16 +0000

[D]on José [de Escandón] lost little time in acting but did not sacrifice effectiveness to haste. Working with his lieutenants to conduct a publicity campaign along the frontier, he and his officers had little difficulty recruiting potential settlers….Among those recruited as settlers in the new province were ranchers who already owned large herds of livestock […]

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October 21 – The Tale of Saint Ursula, the “Little Bear”

MDrake — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:35:10 +0000

Once upon a time, there was once a just and most Christian King of Britain, called Maurus. To him and to his wife Daria was born a little girl, the fairest creature that this earth ever saw. She came into the world wrapped in a hairy mantle, and all men wondered greatly what this might […]

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Book Launching, 33 Years Ago in Milan, October 15, 1993

tfpks — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:15:02 +0000

Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility Pius XII: Great Goals and Immense Means to Bring About the Restoration of the Christian Social Order Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira One of the most important results of the First World War, though not the […]

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October 15 – Interior Castle

MDrake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:10:13 +0000

St. Teresa of Avila Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, born at Avila, Old Castile, 28 March, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes, 4 Oct., 1582. The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa […]

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October 16 – Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Capetian Widow

MDrake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:05:05 +0000

Most Reverend Monsignor Director of this Academy, Gentlemen Academicians: A simple listing of the titles with which she was known during her short life as Marie Antoinette of Habsburg, and later Marie Antoinette of Bourbon, brings to memory the series of extraordinary and unforeseen events that together make up the fabric of the most interesting […]

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An Act Of Kindness – Never To Be Forgotten

tfpks — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:00:04 +0000

But her best-known deed, and the one which made the greatest sensation, was that which is known as the incident of Achères. It was at Fontainebleau, during the hunt again, on Oct 16, 1773. The deer, being at bay, took refuge in a small enclosure of the village of Achères. Finding no issue thence, and […]

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The Guillotine and Its Servants

tfpks — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:55:34 +0000

By Gustave Lenotre* “The scaffold had become a part of the people’s life, and a certain number of Parisians, were extremely entertained by the new plaything. Someone conceived the idea of beheading, in the porches of the old basilica of Notre-Dame, all the stone Saints that adorned the church-fronts. The whiteness of the broken stone […]

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October 16 – Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

MDrake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:50:36 +0000

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Religious of the Visitation Order. Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, born at Lhautecour, France, 22 July, 1647; died at Paray-le-Monial, 17 October, 1690. Her parents, Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn, were distinguished less for temporal possessions than for their virtue, which gave them an honourable position. […]

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October 16 – St. Bercharius

MDrake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:45:12 +0000

St. Bercharius (BERERUS). Abbot of Hautvillers in Champagne, b. 636; d. 28 March, 696. Descended from a distinguished Aquitanian family, he received his instruction from St. Nivard (Nivo), Archbishop of Reims, under whose charge he advaneed rapidly in virtue and learning. Believing himself called to the sacred ministry, he entered the monastery of Luxeuil under […]

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