Nobility Newsletter: "Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ" and other posts

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• Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ
• March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette
• The sense of the universals
• March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis
• March 29 – Royal Simplicity
• March 29 – St. Eustace

Emperor serves the table of the poor and washes their feet in imitation of Christ Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:13 PM PDT In 1850, Franz Joseph participated…as emperor in the second of the traditional Habsburg expressions of dynastic piety: the Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony, part of the four-day court observance of Easter. The master of the staff and the court prelates chose twelve poor elderly men, transported them to the Hofburg, and positioned them in the ceremonial [...]

March 28 – The capture and death of the fearless Charette Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:12 PM PDT On the 21st February his troop, now reduced to less than two hundred men, was attacked by General Travot, one of the ablest officers of Hoche. The Vendeans behaved with the greatest courage, but they were overwhelmed with numbers. The eldest brother of the general, Charette la Colinière, and several officers fell; and he himself [...]

The sense of the universals Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:11 PM PDT  (based on a talk by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)   We should seek the universality of things, not just limit ourselves to the immediate thing at hand. If we do not form an idea of the entirety, of the universality, with all its hierarchical values, we will not be able to insert what we [...]

March 28 – Grandson of King Clovis Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:04 PM PDT St. Gontran, King and Confessor He was son of King Clotaire, and grandson of Clovis I and St. Clotilda. Being the second son, whilst his brothers Charibert reigned at Paris, and Sigebert in Austrasia, residing at Metz, he was crowned King of Orleans and Burgundy in 661, making Challons on the Saone his capital. When [...]

March 29 – Royal Simplicity Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:03 PM PDT St. Rupert (Alternative forms, RUPRECHT, Hrodperht, Hrodpreht, Roudbertus, Rudbertus, Robert, Ruprecht). First Bishop of Salzburg, contemporary of Childebert III, king of the Franks (695-711), date of birth unknown; died at Salzburg, Easter Sunday, 27 March, 718. According to an old tradition, he was a scion of the Frankish Merovingian family. The assumption of 660 as [...]

March 29 – St. Eustace Posted: 27 Mar 2013 10:02 PM PDT St. Eustace Date of birth unknown, died March 29, 625. He was second abbot of the Irish monastery of Luxeuil in France, and his feast is commemorated in the Celtic martyrologies on the 29th of March. He was one of the first companions of St. Columbanus, a monk of Bangor (Ireland), who with his disciples [...]

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