Nobility Newsletter: "Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is upset by oath vote – Daily Express" and other posts

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• Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is upset by oath vote – Daily Express
• A King With No Country – Washingtonian
• Love of Faith and country trump parental love
• The rose, orchid and tulip: three forms of beauty
• April 4 – Mother of the Templars
• April 5 – St. Æthelburh
• April 5 – Soul on Fire
• April 6 – Felled by an assassin’s axe, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo”
• April 6 – St. William of Paris

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is upset by oath vote – Daily Express Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:16 PM PDT According to the Daily Express: …the Countess of Wessex is not relishing the quandary she has been placed in over her position as the monarch’s representative as head of the Girl Guides. The movement…is considering the extraordinary step of jettisoning its allegiance to the Queen. …if the majority decide they want to delete reference to [...]

A King With No Country – Washingtonian Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:15 PM PDT According to the Washingtonian: "The [Rwandan] monarchy has come to be seen potentially as a source of moderation and ethnic reconciliation, and the regime views that very much as a threat," Timothy Longman…says. "In Rwanda, you cannot openly embrace the king, you cannot call for the king's return. You'll be thrown in jail." Royal power [...]

Love of Faith and country trump parental love Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:12 PM PDT In 1475, during the siege of his city, the French sent word to Jean Blanca, Bourgeois of Perpignan and first consul, that if he did not surrender the town they would execute his son whom they held captive. In reply, the governor told the French emissaries: "—My faith and the service of my lord the [...]

The rose, orchid and tulip: three forms of beauty Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:11 PM PDT The Rose: Splendor of Order with Poetry The Orchid: Unexpected Beauty The Tulip: Masterpiece of Coherence (based on a talk by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira – Saint of the Day, March 6, 1971) Many years ago some Dutchmen managed to bring tulip bulbs to Brazil and to plant them, since here anything will grow… [...]

April 4 – Mother of the Templars Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:05 PM PDT Saint Aleth of Dijon Mother of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, she belonged to the highest nobility of Burgundy. Her husband, Tescelin, lord of Fontaines, perished on Crusade. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was the third of her seven children.  At the age of nine years, Bernard was sent to a much renowned school at Chatillon-sur-Seine, kept [...]

April 5 – St. Æthelburh Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:04 PM PDT Saint Æthelburh (died 647), also known as Ethelburga, Ædilburh and Æthelburga (Old English: Æþelburh), was an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a Christian from Kent, their marriage triggered the initial phase of the conversion of the pagan north of England to Christianity. Æthelburh date of [...]

April 5 – Soul on Fire Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:03 PM PDT St. Vincent Ferrer Famous Dominican missionary, born at Valencia, 23 January, 1350; died at Vannes, Brittany, 5 April, 1419. He was descended from the younger of two brothers who were knighted for their valor in the conquest of Valencia, 1238. In 1340 Vincent's father, William Ferrer, married Constantia Miguel, whose family had likewise been ennobled [...]

April 6 – Felled by an assassin’s axe, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo” Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:02 PM PDT St. Peter of Verona Born at Verona, 1206; died near Milan, 6 April, 1252. His parents were adherents of the Manichæan heresy, which still survived in northern Italy in the thirteenth century. Sent to a Catholic school, and later to the University of Bologna, he there met St. Dominic, and entered the Order of the [...]

April 6 – St. William of Paris Posted: 03 Apr 2013 10:01 PM PDT St. William of Paris Abbot of Eskill in Denmark, born 1105; died 1202. He was born of a noble French family, and became a secular canon at Ste Geneviève-du-Mond and, after Suger’s reform, a canon regular. He was sub-prior of the monastery when Bishop Absalom of Lund, who had heard reports of William’s sanctity, sent [...]

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