Nobility Newsletter: "It’s a boy! – ABC News" and other posts

Nobility Newsletter: "It’s a boy! – ABC News" and other posts

• It’s a boy! – ABC News
• America does royal baby mania bigger and better – The Guardian
• Video highlights: Philippe becomes new Belgian king – BBC News
• The Maid of Orleans asks the King to give France to God
• Elites: Propelling Forces of True Progress and Guardians of Tradition
• July 22 – With his lady’s permission, this lord left court to become a monk, then abbot
• July 23 – St. Bridget of Sweden
• July 24 – Chaste Queen
• July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving
• July 24 – St. John Boste

It’s a boy! – ABC News

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 12:44 PM PDT


According to ABC News: “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24 p.m.,” the palace said in a statement. “The baby weighs 8 lbs. 6 oz. The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth.” “The queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of [...]







America does royal baby mania bigger and better – The Guardian

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:15 PM PDT


According to The Guardian: We clearly crave royalty; we yearn for splendour and try to create it by worshipping quarterbacks, eating up stories about what Michelle Obama wore yesterday and crowning teenaged girls in long white gloves Peanut Princess or Watermelon Queen with a diamante tiara…. …here we are, acting for all the world like [...]







Video highlights: Philippe becomes new Belgian king – BBC News

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:14 PM PDT


According to BBC News: The Oxford- and Stanford-educated, trained air force pilot took the oath as the country’s seventh king in a ceremony in parliament. To warm applause, King Philippe, 53, promised to uphold the constitution. In a colourful ceremony topped off by trumpet fanfare and cannon-fire, Philippe took his oath in the country’s three [...]







The Maid of Orleans asks the King to give France to God

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:12 PM PDT


When Joan came to find the King, he was at the town of Chinon, and I at Saint Florent. I was riding out on a quail hunt when a message came that a Maid had come to the King who maintained that she was sent by God to drive away the English, and to raise [...]







Elites: Propelling Forces of True Progress and Guardians of Tradition

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:11 PM PDT


There is a link between nobility and tradition. The former is the natural guardian of the latter. In temporal society, the nobility is par excellence the class entrusted with keeping alive the link whereby the wisdom of the past guides the present without, however, paralyzing it. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites [...]







July 22 – With his lady’s permission, this lord left court to become a monk, then abbot

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:10 PM PDT


St. Wandrille, or Wandregisilus, Abbot [Abbot of Fontenelles, in Normandy.] He was nearly related to Pepin of Landen and Erchinoald, the two first lords in the kingdom of Austrasia; and in his youth was made count of the palace under Dagobert I. He was humble on the highest pinnacle of honors, and mortified amidst pleasures. [...]







July 23 – St. Bridget of Sweden

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:09 PM PDT


St. Bridget of Sweden The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms, born about 1303; died 23 July, 1373. She was the daughter of Birger Persson, governor and provincial judge (Lagman) of Uppland, and of Ingeborg Bengtsdotter. Her father was one of the wealthiest landholders of the country, and, like her mother, distinguished by deep [...]







July 24 – Chaste Queen

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:08 PM PDT


Saint Kinga of Poland (also known as Cunegunda, Kunigunda, Kunegunda, Cunegundes, Kioga, Zinga; Polish: Święta Kinga, Hungarian: Szent Kinga) Poor Clare and patroness of Poland and Lithuania; born in 1224; died 24 July, 1292, at Sandeck, Poland. She was the daughter of King Bela IV and niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and from her [...]







July 24 – She Was Fearless, Courageous, and Unswerving

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:07 PM PDT


Matilda of Canossa Countess of Tuscany, daughter and heiress of the Marquess Boniface of Tuscany, and Beatrice, daughter of Frederick of Lorraine, b. 1046; d. 24 July, 1114. In 1053 her father was murdered. Duke Gottfried of Lorraine, an opponent of the Emperor Henry III, went to Italy and married the widowed Beatrice. But, in [...]







July 24 – St. John Boste

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:06 PM PDT


St. John Boste (Or JOHN BOAST.) Priest and martyr, born of good Catholic family at Dufton, in Westmoreland, about 1544; died at Durham, 24 July, 1594. He studied at Queen’s College, Oxford, 1569-72, became a Fellow, and was received into the Church at Brome, in Suffolk, in 1576. Resigning his Fellowship in 1580, he went [...]








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