God Rewarded Christendom For the Reconquista and the First Crusade with Wisdom and Civilization

God Rewarded Christendom For the Reconquista and the First Crusade with Wisdom and Civilization

Before this period, the science of legislation, which is the first and most important of all, had made but very little progress. Some cities of Italy and the provinces near the Pyrenees, where the Goths had encouraged the Roman laws, alone exhibited glimmerings of civilization. Among the rules and ordinances that Gaston de Béarn laid down before his departure for the Holy Land, are to be found many points and particulars which deserve to be preserved by history, because they exhibit the feeble beginnings of a legislation which time and fortunate circumstances would perfect.

Charlemagne: Great in every sense

Charlemagne: Great in every sense

The name given by later generations to Charles, King of the Franks, first sovereign of the Christian Empire of the West; born 2 April, 742; died at Aachen, 28 January, 814.
At the time of Charles’ birth, his father, Pepin the Short, Mayor of the Palace, of the line of Arnulf, was, theoretically, only the first subject of Childeric III, the last Merovinigian King of the Franks; but this modest title implied that real power, military, civil, and even ecclesiastical, of which Childeric’s crown was only the symbol. It is not certain that Bertrada (or Bertha), the mother of Charlemagne, a daughter of Charibert, Count of Laon, was legally married to Pepin until some years later than either 742 or 745.

Constantine the Great

Constantine the Great

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His coins give his name as M., or more frequently as C., Flavius Valerius Constantinus. He was born at Naissus, now Nisch in Servia [Nis, Serbia —Ed.], the son of a Roman officer, Constantius, who later became Roman Emperor, and St. Helena, a woman of humble extraction but remarkable character and unusual ability. The date of his birth is not certain, being given as early as 274 and as late as 288. After his father’s elevation to the dignity of Caesar we find him at the court of Diocletian and later (305) fighting under Galerius on the Danube. When, on the resignation of his father Constantius was made Augustus, the new Emperor of the West asked Galerius, the Eastern Emperor, to let Constantine, whom he had not seen for a long time, return to his father’s court. This was reluctantly granted. Constantine joined his father, under whom he had just time to distinguish himself in Britain before death carried off Constantius (25 July, 306). Constantine was immediately proclaimed Caesar by his troops, and his title was acknowledged by Galerius somewhat hesitatingly.

Charlemagne: Great in every sense

Charlemagne: Great in every sense

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The name given by later generations to Charles, King of the Franks, first sovereign of the Christian Empire of the West; born 2 April, 742; died at Aachen, 28 January, 814.
At the time of Charles’ birth, his father, Pepin the Short, Mayor of the Palace, of the line of Arnulf, was, theoretically, only the first subject of Childeric III, the last Merovinigian King of the Franks; but this modest title implied that real power, military, civil, and even ecclesiastical, of which Childeric’s crown was only the symbol. It is not certain that Bertrada (or Bertha), the mother of Charlemagne, a daughter of Charibert, Count of Laon, was legally married to Pepin until some years later than either 742 or 745.

Hospitals in the Holy Land: Innovations at the Cross-Roads of Civilization

Hospitals in the Holy Land: Innovations at the Cross-Roads of Civilization 

Dr. Helena Schrader

Last month I noted that the crusader states (collectively known as Outremer) had benefited from the hygienic traditions of the civilizations that had preceded them in the Levant, namely the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Turks.  Another area in which the crusader states benefited from being at the cross-roads of civilizations was with respect to medical care. This was not as simple as having access to Arab medical knowledge, since both Western and Arab medicine of this period was based on false premises. Rather, it was the exposure to medical practices from the Eastern Roman Empire, India, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and the West that gave medicine in the Levant a degree of sophistication and flexibility unknown elsewhere at this time. Before looking at medical practices, however, I want to first consider one of the greatest innovations of Outremer: the hospital.

The Crusader’s Defense of Orthodoxy

Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Softness and sentimentalism constitute the opposite of the Crusader spirit. There are persons who have a thousand blunders in their head, as, for example, the notion that perhaps it is not good to be combative, but rather one should be amiable and kind. 

Charlemagne ‘Father of Europe’: A European Icon in the Making

Charlemagne ‘Father of Europe’: A European Icon in the Making

By Marianne Ailes

Introduction: Along with the legendary King Arthur and the crusading conqueror of Jerusalem, Godefroy of Bouillon, Charlemagne was one of the three secular ‘chivalric’ Worthies of the later Middle Ages. Arthur and Charlemagne shared the status of legendary Christian kings belonging to a pervious age, but there were major differences between them.

The Knights of St Stephen of Tuscany

The Knights of St Stephen of Tuscany 

MadMonarchist 

 In the old days of Christendom, there were religious military orders subject to the Roman Pontiff, such as the Templars, as well as religious military orders subject to a particular dynastic house. One of these was the Order of St Stephen of the Italian Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Officially, the “Holy Military Order of St Stephen Pope and Martyr”, it was founded on October 1, 1561 by the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici with the permission of Pope Pius IV. 

 

Practicing Christianity about to become illegal in Massachusetts

Bob Livingston 

Note: This blog is informational and not meant to support the heresy of right to religious liberty

The basic foundational tenets of the Christian religion are about to become “illegal” in Massachusetts.
This is certainly not a surprise as the elites who walk the halls of power have long been working to eliminate the notion of the one Supreme Being God from the public consciousness and replace Him with their one god – the state. In fact, I wrote before the Supreme Court issued its ruling Obergefell v. Hodges  that if the court created a “right” to “gay marriage” that it would be end of religious liberty in America.

‘Help The Christians First And Then Sink The Boats With Invading Muslims’- Hungarian PM 

By Andrew Bieszad

The European Union each day is exposed more and more for the paper tiger that it is as it tries to force Eastern European nations to commit suicide by allowing a Muslim invasion, and each day these same nations are doubling down against the EU even harder than before. Such is the case with Hungarian President Viktor Orban, famous for his anti-Islam statements, including most recently where he called for Christians to be helped before Muslims and, if the EU was going to have an army and a navy, that the proof of its success would be in sinking the boats with invading Muslims:

Taming the Barbarians: Service To Christendom

In taming the barbarians, the Church funneled their combativeness to the service of Christendom, giving rise to Chivalry and the Crusades

nobility.org 

Providence disposed that the Middle Ages should be a specially warlike age. This was not only because of the double effort that Charlemagne had to do by fighting both Saracens and barbarians, but also because of the remaining traits of barbarian mentality in Catholics themselves, which led them to unsheathe their swords and combat for trivial motives, or for no reason at all.

Islamic State Magazine Mocks Christianity, Claims Jesus Is ‘a Slave of Allah’

Frances Martel 

In the latest issue of its English-language magazine Dabiq, the Islamic State calls on Christians to abandon Christianity, arguing that Jesus himself was “a slave of Allah” who will “wage jihad” upon returning to earth.

 

XXI Century Crusade

XXI Century Crusade 

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Medieval Crusaders shed their blood to free the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the hands of the infidels and to establish a Christian kingdom in the Holy Land.

Today the blood of Catholics still flows — in Communist China, the Sudan, Cuba, and many other countries where religious persecutions continue to claim the lives of thousands without most of us even being aware of it. In fact, authorities on religious persecutions have proven that the twentieth century claimed more martyrs than all previous nineteen centuries combined.

Video of the Day- Biggest Threat to Social Order?

Rebuilding Christendom: Biggest Threat to Social Order? - Dr E. Michael Jones 

Faith, Art & the People's Well-Being
in an Organic Christian Civilization 

Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Catholic writer Antero de Figueiredo (1866-1953)

If Antero de Figueiredo had done for the cause of the Revolution - and especially for the cause of Communism - all the good he did for the Church, today he would be a famous writer in Brazil. All the outlets of the Left that fabricate popularity, so numerous and productive, would often praise the unique beauty of his style, his verve, his profound, pensive and clear thought, as well as his keen sense of observation. 

The Marvelous Origin of the Holy Crown of St. Stephen of Hungary

nobility.org 

Crown of St. Stephen, King of Hungary

“In the fourth year after his father’s death, encouraged by divine grace, (Stephen) sent Bishop Asherik…so that he may ask the heir of St. Peter, prince of the apostles, to send his copious blessings to the first fruits of Christianity blossoming in the parts of Pannonia… to grant him the favour of fortifying him with a royal crown so that supported by this honour, he might consolidate more firmly what he had begun through the grace of God.

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
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A Sermon by Msgr. Ronald A. Knox, preached February, 1934.

ABOUT three thousand years ago, a man stood, thrilled with religious awe, on the slopes of Mount Sinai 'in Arabia. He was a shepherd, feeding on those barren pastures the flocks of his father-in-law; his attention had been aroused, at a distance, by the unwanted sight of a fire in the desert scrub. And now that he had drawn nearer, he saw that this was not merely something beyond the ordinary, but something beyond nature itself; the bush before which he stood burned continually, but was not consumed. 

Francis’ Symbolic Gesture Commemorating Heretic Luther

Francis’ Symbolic Gesture Commemorating Heretic Luther 

Luiz Sérgio Solimeo (TFP)

 

 Symbolic acts and gestures often have a greater persuasive power than words and reasoning, though one completes the other. This is why the Divine Savior constantly used both symbolic gestures and employed metaphors and parables.