Nobility Newsletter: "June 22 – He Confronted the Mandate" and other posts

Nobility Newsletter: "June 22 – He Confronted the Mandate" and other posts



June 22 – He Confronted the Mandate
King Abdullah II warns that Syrian civil war may embroil Jordan
Spanish town visited by Samurai 400 years ago receives Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito
Shame: Girl Guides remove God and country from 103 year-old pledge, but keep Queen
Queen Isabel the Catholic pawns her crown jewels to keep up the siege of Baeza
Even Those Who Show Disdain for the Old Ways of Life Are Not Totally Immune to the Splendor of the Nobility
June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint
June 21 – He Was More Angel than Man
June 22 – St. John Fisher
June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola
June 23 – After her death, her sister, niece, and great-niece, all royal princesses and two of them widowed queens, followed her as abbesses of Ely


June 22 – He Confronted the Mandate

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 08:19 AM PDT


St. Thomas More Saint, knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, born in London, 7 February, 1477-78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535. He was the sole surviving son of Sir John More, barrister and later judge, by his first wife Agnes, daughter of Thomas Graunger. While still a child Thomas was sent [...]







King Abdullah II warns that Syrian civil war may embroil Jordan

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 08:18 AM PDT


According to the Los Angeles Times: Amid escalating concern about spillover effects of the war in neighboring Syria, Jordan's King Abdullah II has warned that his kingdom is able “at any moment” to protect its national interests. Addressing a group of cadets in a graduation ceremony at Mutah Military Academy on Sunday, the king, in full battle [...]







Spanish town visited by Samurai 400 years ago receives Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 08:03 AM PDT


According to the Bangkok Post: Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito on Friday honored a 17th-century samurai who established the first ties between his country and Spain 400 years ago, in a small town where to this day hundreds of local Spaniards bear the name “Japon”. Naruhito, the 53-year-old son and heir of Emperor Akihito, planted a [...]







Shame: Girl Guides remove God and country from 103 year-old pledge, but keep Queen

Posted: 20 Jun 2013 07:48 AM PDT


According to The Guardian: God, Queen and country – the foundations of the Girl Guides were trumpeted from the very first days of the organisation's existence in 1910. But now, following a consultation with members, God and country are out – leaving just the Queen. In one of the biggest overhauls undergone by guiding in [...]







Queen Isabel the Catholic pawns her crown jewels to keep up the siege of Baeza

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:12 PM PDT


[I]n the next spring, [Ferdinand the Catholic] and Queen Isabel appeared in Jaen, determined on the reduction of Baeza, the most important town in eastern Granada. The preparations were on a scale that surpassed all former efforts of the kind; for the neighboring country with its thick orchards and easily flooded rivers was difficult and [...]







Even Those Who Show Disdain for the Old Ways of Life Are Not Totally Immune to the Splendor of the Nobility

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:11 PM PDT


Pius XII emphasizes vigor and fertility of works as characteristic of genuine nobility and encourages the nobles to contribute such qualities to the common good. "Vigor and fruitful works! Behold two characteristics of true nobility, to which heraldic symbols, stamped in bronze or carved in marble, are a perennial testimony, for they represent as it [...]







June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:10 PM PDT


Pope St. Silverius (Reigned 536-37). Dates of birth and death unknown. He was the son of Pope [St.] Hormisdas who had been married before becoming one of the higher clergy. Silverius entered the service of the Church and was subdeacon at Rome when Pope Agapetus died at Constantinople, 22 April, 536. The Empress Theodora, who [...]







June 21 – He Was More Angel than Man

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:09 PM PDT


St. Aloysius Gonzaga Aloysius Gonzaga was son of Ferdinand Gonzaga, prince of the holy empire, and marquis of Castiglione, removed in the third degree of kindred from the duke of Mantua. His mother was Martha Tana Santena, daughter of Tanus Santena, lord of Cherry, in Piedmont. She was lady of honor to Isabel, the wife [...]







June 22 – St. John Fisher

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:07 PM PDT


St. John Fisher Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, and martyr; born at Beverley, Yorkshire, England, 1459 (?1469); died 22 June, 1535. John was the eldest son of Robert Fisher, merchant of Beverley, and Agnes his wife. His early education was probably received in the school attached to the collegiate church in his native town, whence in [...]







June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:06 PM PDT


St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola (Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus). Born at Bordeaux about 354; died 22 June, 431. He sprang from a distinguished family of Aquitania and his education was entrusted to the poet Ausonius. He became governor of the Province of Campania, but he soon realized that he could not find in public life [...]







June 23 – After her death, her sister, niece, and great-niece, all royal princesses and two of them widowed queens, followed her as abbesses of Ely

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:05 PM PDT


St. Etheldreda Queen of Northumbria; born (probably) about 630; died at Ely, 23 June, 679. While still very young she was given in marriage by her father, Anna, King of East Anglia, to a certain Tonbert, a subordinate prince, from whom she received as morning gift a tract of land locally known as the Isle [...]








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