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Brightest of Stars that guide the Wanderers in this Vale of tears, Herald of the Coming Dawn!
ORA PRO NOBIS!
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Hail, Star of the Sea!
01 Friday May 2015
Posted in Christendom
Category Archives: Christendom
From Knight in the Hapsburg Army to Holy Monk
26 Sunday Apr 2015
Posted in Christendom
SAINT BERNARDO TOLOMEI (1272-1348) (Canonized April 26, 2009 by Benedict XVI)
Abbot Founder, Olivetan Benedictine Congregation
From EWTN
BERNARDO TOLOMEI, son of Mino Tolomei, was born in Siena on May 10, 1272. At his Baptism he was given the name “Giovanni”. He was probably educated by the Dominicans at their College of San Domenico di Camporeggio in Siena. He was knighted by Rudolph I of Habsburg (1218-1291). While studying law in his home town, he was also a member of the Confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santa Maria della Notte dedicated to aiding the sick at the “della Scala” Hospital. Due to progressive and almost total blindness, he was forced to give up his public career. In 1313, in order to realize a more radical Christian and ascetic ideal, together with two companions (Patrizio di Francesco Patrizi, d. 1347 and Ambrogio di Nino Piccolomini, d. 1338), both noble Sienese merchants and members of the same confraternity, he retired to a family property in Accona, about 30 km south-east of the city. It was here that Giovanni, who in the meantime had taken the name “Bernardo” out of veneration for the holy Cistercian abbot, together with his two companions, lived a hermitic penitential life, characterized by prayer, manual work and silence.
…Because They Love What They Left Behind
24 Friday Apr 2015
Posted in Christendom, The World of THE WAR FOR CHRISTENDOM
Just War in THE WAR FOR CHRISTENDOM
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton 
The Crusades are often looked upon now days as an unjust aggression against a peaceful and superior culture. Yet that culture had invaded the Catholic Roman Empire, and had threatened to utterly destroy it. Good Catholic men (each with his wife’s permission, of course) would go forth to fight and more importantly to defend the remnants of true Civilization left to them (see my previous post on The Crusader Count). Now in our Modern Times we are externally more civilized, yet can we today defend the much fewer remnants of true Civilization left to us? Continue reading
Nothing “Middle” about the “Middle Ages”!
23 Thursday Apr 2015
Posted in Christendom
It’s About Time We had a New (More Truthful) Name for “the Dark Ages”
Thanks to Isabella Rose, The Catholic Nomad, over at Reclaiming the Sacred, the so called “Medieval Period” will henceforward be know on this website as:
The Sacred Ages
And such things as were known as “Medieval” shall now be known as:
Sacretemporal
As this may seem confusing at first, I will continue to use the terms “Middle Ages” and “Medieval” in parentheses alongside these new terms.
“κῦδος” to The Catholic Nomad 🙂
Hapsburg of the Month: Albrecht IV the Wise, The Crusader Count
14 Tuesday Apr 2015
Posted in Christendom, HRM Archive
“My sons, cultivate truth and piety; give no ear to evil counselors, never engage in unnecessary war, but when you are involved in war be strong and brave. Love peace even better than your own personal interests. Remember that the counts of Hapsburg did not attain their heights of reputation and glory by fraud, insolence or selfishness, but by courage and devotion to the public weal. As long as you follow their footsteps, you will not only retain, but augment, the possessions and dignities of your illustrious ancestors.”–Speech of Albrecht IV to his three sons, as attributed in The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power, by John S. C. Abbott.
Albrecht was the seventh count of Hapsburg and a count of Kyburg, the father of Holy Roman Emperor and King Rudolf I. When the call went forth from Theobald of Navarre the Count of Champagne for a Crusade in the Holy Land, Albrecht with his knights joined him. They went Southward from Acre and Albrecht fell in battle at Ascalon on the 13th of December 1239. This brave lord bequeathed both his courage and his wisdom (for which he was renowned) to his son Rudolf, who became arguably the greatest of the medieval Hapsburgs, and for his piety was rewarded by God.
In the first video below you will find one of the Crusader Songs of Theobald of Navarre, whom some call one of the greatest of medieval poets.
The second video is the Palästinalied by Wather von der Vogelweide, written about the same period.
Christians, Jews, and Muslims make this claim
God ordered it so, for His Triune Name
Our cause is right, for Christ we fight
And God in holy might will grant our right
ALLELUIA=CHRISTVS VINCIT+CHRISTVS REGNAT+CHRISTVS IMPERAT=ALLELIUA-ALLELIUA
05 Sunday Apr 2015
Posted in Christendom
ave rex et imperator IESVS christvs
“Regard also our most devout Emperor and since Thou knowest, O God, the desires of his heart, grant by the ineffable grace of Thy goodness and mercy, that he may enjoy with all his people the tranquility of perpetual peace and heavenly victory.” (From the Prayers after the Exsultet or Praeconium Paschale)
Sacred Images for Reflection during HOLY WEEK
29 Sunday Mar 2015
Posted in Christendom
God the Father wearing an Imperial Crown, holding God the Son crowned with the symbol of His Passion and Death, together with the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
Before His Holy Cross, Popes and Emperors bow to worship.
What is Christendom?
29 Sunday Mar 2015
Posted in Christendom
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True unity between Church and State, through Our Lord Jesus, Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, and the Holy Rosary.
But there is a narrower sense in which Christendom stands for a polity as well as a religion, for a nation as well as for a people. Christendom in this sense was an ideal which inspired and dignified many centuries of history and which has not yet altogether lost its power over the minds of men. Catholic Encyclopedia: “Christendom”
Christendom is the temporal and cultural sphere of Catholicity, as opposed to the spiritual(i.e. the Catholic Church), a uniquely Catholic Civilization with the Pope as its supreme head, and the Emperor is its temporal and military head. To separate Catholicism and Christendom is to severely maim Catholicism, and leave it without a political, cultural, and military defender. It is not a “supra-national state,” but a unifying Civilization encompassing many states and cultures in accordance with the Catholic principle of Subsidiarity, having the Holy Roman Imperium as its highest temporal authority.
The War for Christendom 