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The New Crusade

A Blog dedicated to the promotion of the Traditional Roman Catholic Faith in union with HH Benedict XVI, to the preservation of our Traditional Græco-Roman Catholic Civilisation and to the New Crusade against Islam. This Blog is under the Patronage of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Christ our King and His Holy Mother, our Queen and of Santiago Matamoros (St James the Moor-slayer) and the Crusader King, St Louis IX of France.

13 février 2006

Idus Feb. AUC 2758/AM 7514

Today is a Feria, but the Votive Mass of the Most Holy Trinity is appropriate.

From the East:


  • Aquilla & Priscilla the Apostles


  • Martinianos the Righteous


  • Tradition in Action's Saint of the Day:


  • Pope St. Gregory II


  • The Martyrology:


  • Today's


  • Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime


  • On this day:

    AD 1130, His Holiness, Honorius II, Pope, reigned 1124-30, dies.

    AD 1199, St Stepan Nemanja Serbian monk, dies.

    AD 1237, Jordanus of Saxon second Prior General of the Order of Preachers, drowns.

    AD 1332, Andronicus II Paleologus Roman Emperor in the East, reigned 1282-1328, monk, dies.

    AD 1542, Catherine Howard, Queen of England, 5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded. Henry's lusts knew no limits!

    AD 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before Inquisition for demanding that Holy Scripture be «edited» to reflect his new theories.

    AD 1689, British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights, completing the Whig Revolution and destroying the Traditional Monarchy.

    AD 1692, In the Glen Coe highlands of Scotland, thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are murdered by soldiers of the neighboring Campbell clan, heretics and traitors to their true King, for not pledging allegiance to William of Orange.

    AD 1934, Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss bans Austro-Bolshevik, Red «Social Democratic Party », in his attempt to create a Catholic, corporate State.