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3 days ago · Jim Graves, March 14, 2023. St. Matilda (892-968) was Queen of Germany and wife of King Henry I. She lived a life of piety and service to the poor, and she helped build many churches, convents and monasteries. Her feast day is March 14.
3 days ago · The emblem of the House of Ascania, a red eagle and bear, became the heraldic emblems of Berlin. In 1320, the Brandenburg Ascanian line came to an end. After the Emperor had deposed the Guelph rulers of Saxony in 1180, Ascanians returned to rule the Duchy of Saxony, which had been reduced to its eastern half by the Emperor.
12 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
5 days ago · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland and the ...
2 days ago · The altar dedicated to St. Agnes of Rome in the Sant’Agnese in Agone, a 17th-century Baroque church in Rome, located where the saint was martyred in the ancient Stadium of Domitian. Credit: Kate Cavanaugh Quiñones . Today, the saint’s skull resides in a side chapel of the church Sant’Agnese in Agone in the Piazza Navona, Rome.
2 days ago · 8) Patron saint of desperate situations and impossible causes …as well as a saint for feuding families, healing, and mothers. Here is a special prayer for the intercession of Saint Rita: O Holy Patroness of those in need, St. Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favors
3 days ago · Learn about the Saint of the Day for Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. View all saints who celebrate feast days on this day.
