August 29 Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Birthday
When Cardinal Mazarin (March 09) died he said to Louis XIV (September 14),Sire, I owe you everything, but I believe I can repay some of...
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- Jul 25, 2019
- 3 min
April 15 Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
Leonardo da Vinci was the prototype of the Renaissance man - a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter,...
- Jul 25, 2019
- 2 min
March 9 Anniversary of Jules Cardinal Mazarin' s Death
Giulio Mazzarino was the son of the Major-domo of a Sicilian Prince .who joined the papal diplomatic service where he was favorably...
- Jul 25, 2019
- 4 min
February 18Mary I of England's Birthday
When Edward VI died in 1553, Mary became queen only after a faction of Protestant nobles tried to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne. When...
- Jul 25, 2019
- 3 min
February 09 The Anniversary of Agnes Sorrel's Death
She was extremely bright, politically astute, exceptionally beautiful, and was known to have had the most beautiful breasts in 15th...
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
March 06 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's Birthday
Michelangelo's genius was not his art. It was his vision of life and the way that he used his art to translate and communicate that...
- Jun 21, 2019
- 3 min
May 18 Saint Karol Jozef Wojtyla's Birthday
Saint Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city Near Krakow When the Nazis occupied Poland, he worked...
- Jun 21, 2019
- 4 min
May 16 St. Honoré's Feastday
There are two French saints named St. Honoré. One was St. Honoré of Arles who established the famous monastery of Lerins. However, the...
- Jun 21, 2019
- 3 min
February 03 St. Blaise's Feastday
The Scourging of St. Blaise by an Anonymous Roman follower of Caravaggio Blaise was a fourth century physician and bishop of Sebastea,...
- Jun 19, 2019
- 3 min
July 11 - St Benedict’s Feastday
St Benedict is the patron saint of Europe and the founder of the Benedictine Order, and created the rules that became basis for life in...
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
March 01 St. David's Day
by Gordon Nary St. David (Dafydd or Dew) was a sixth century Celtic monk and the patron saint of Wales He is remembered for converting...
- Apr 1, 2019
- 4 min
May 30 St. Joan of Arc's Feastday
In 1428 France was in danger of collapse. The English were victorious on all fronts in their slow, methodical conquest of the land. The...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
June 03 Anniversary of the Death of Pope John XXIII
by Gordon Nary When Angelo Roncalli was elected Pope in 1958, he chose the name John XXIII, a name previously chosen by a 15th-century...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 4 min
June 24 St. John the Baptist's Feastday Midsummer Day
by Gordon Nary John the Baptist is regarded as a prophet by four religions: Christianity, Islam, Mandaeanism, and the Bahá'í Faith. The...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 8 min
November 11St Martin's (of Tours) Day (Martinmas/Martinstag/Márton nap)Karneval/Fastnacht
by Gordon Nary When Martin was ten years old, he expressed interest in becoming a Christian. His father, a pagan Roman army...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
October 14 St Menehould's Feastday
by Gordon Nary St. Menehould (Manachildes) was a sixth century saint who, with her six sisters,* is venerated as virgin-saints in...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min
May 28 Anniversary of the Election of Pietro Orsini as Pope Benedict XIII\
by Gordon Nary Pope Benedict XIII governed the Roman Church from 1724 to 1730. Pietro Orsini was seventy-six years old when he was...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 5 min
September 29St. Michael the Archangel's Feastday (Michaelmas)
by Gordon Nary Michael is the most often mentioned archangel in the Bible. Catholics have made Michael the patron saint of a rather...
- Mar 21, 2019
- 2 min
September 12 Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
by Gordon Nary The Annunciation by Fra Angelico There is a legend of how Mary invented a process of cooking in which one vessel...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
October 24 Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel
by Gordon Nary Raphael is one of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible, the others being Gabriel and Michael. Raphael performs...
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