Nobility Newsletter: "Death of HRH Prince Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse" and other posts
Death of HRH Prince Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
May 23 – Chevalier of the Order of Leopold
St. Edmund, King and Martyr for his faith and people
Clergy, Nobility, and People
May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins
May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison
May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow
May 25 – She withstood the devil
May 26 – He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”
Death of HRH Prince Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
Posted: 23 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT
The House of Hesse has confirmed the news that HRH Prince Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, passed away earlier today, May 23, 2013. Born in Italy, on August 6, 1926, Prince Moritz was 86 years old. He had been head of the House of Hesse since October 25, 1980, at the death of his father, Prince Philipp.
May 23 – Chevalier of the Order of Leopold
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:15 PM PDT
Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet Missionary among the North American Indians, born at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 30 Jan., 1801; died at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., 23 May, 1873. He emigrated to the United States in 1821 through a desire for missionary labours, and entered the Jesuit novitiate at Whitemarsh, Maryland. In 1823, however, at the suggestion [...]
St. Edmund, King and Martyr for his faith and people
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:12 PM PDT
The next year (870) is one full of sorrow, and of glory, for Christian England. It witnesses the utter destruction of another Saxon kingdom, adds one worthy English name to the calendar of the saints, several to the roll of our heroes still remembered, and a whole people to the glorious list of those who [...]
Clergy, Nobility, and People
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:11 PM PDT
In the Middle Ages, society consisted of three classes, the clergy, the nobility, and the people, each of which had special duties, privileges, and honors. Besides this tripartite division, a clear distinction existed between rulers and those ruled, a distinction inherent to every social group and principally to a country. Not only the king, however, [...]
May 24 – St. Vincent of Lérins
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:09 PM PDT
St. Vincent of Lérins Feast on 24 May, an ecclesiastical writer in Southern Gaul in the fifth century. His work is much better known than his life. Almost all our information concerning him is contained in Gennadius, “De viris illustribus” (lxiv). He entered the monastery of Lérins (today Isle St. Honorat), where under the pseudonym [...]
May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:08 PM PDT
This commemoration was introduced in the liturgical calendar by decree of Pope Pius VII on September 16, 1815, in thanksgiving for his happy return to Rome after a long and painful captivity in Savona and France due to Napoleon's tyrannical power. By order of Napoleon, Pius VII was arrested, 5 July, 1808, and detained a [...]
May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:07 PM PDT
Pope St. Gregory VII (HILDEBRAND). One of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs and one of the most remarkable men of all times; born between the years 1020 and 1025, at Soana, or Ravacum, in Tuscany; died 25 May, 1085, at Salerno. The early years of his life are involved in considerable obscurity. His name, [...]
May 25 – She withstood the devil
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:06 PM PDT
St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi Carmelite Virgin, born 2 April, 1566; died 25 May, 1607. Of outward events there were very few in the saint's life. She came of two noble families, her father being Camillo Geri de' Pazzi and her mother a Buondelmonti. She was baptized, and named Caterina, in the great baptistery. Her [...]
May 26 – He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”
Posted: 22 May 2013 10:06 PM PDT
THE APOSTLE OF ROME St. Philip Romolo Neri Born at Florence, Italy, 22 July, 1515; died 27 May, 1595. Philip's family originally came from Castelfranco but had lived for many generations in Florence, where not a few of its members had practised the learned professions, and therefore took rank with the Tuscan nobility. Among these [...]
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