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Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks

| 10 maja 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

20 years ago, on May 10th 1994 at the age of 87, Cleanth Brooks died in New Haven (Connecticut ), a literary critic and an essayist; a son of a Methodist pastor from Kentucky, for many years (from 1947 to 1975) a professor at Yale University, also a visiting professor at several other universities, a […]

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Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri

Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri

| 2 maja 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

25 years ago, on May 2nd 1989 Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri died in Genoa at the age of 82, a priest and a doctor of theology; a presbyter since 1928, at the age of 38 has been appointed an auxiliary Bishop and in 1946 – an archbishop of Genoa; in 1953 made cardinal by Pope […]

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Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri

Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri

| 2 maja 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

25 years ago, on May 2nd 1989 Archbishop Giuseppe Cardinal Siri died in Genoa at the age of 82, a priest and a doctor of theology; a presbyter since 1928, at the age of 38 has been appointed an auxiliary Bishop and in 1946 – an archbishop of Genoa; in 1953 made cardinal by Pope […]

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Friedrich Gentz

Friedrich Gentz

| 2 maja 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

250 years ago on May 2nd 1764 , Friedrich Gentz was born in Wroclaw​​, a journalist, a diplomat and a politician; he was under the influenced by Immanuel Kant while studying at Königsberg in his youth; the events of the revolution in France and reading a book about it written by E. Burke (which he […]

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Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk

| 29 kwietnia 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

20 years ago, on April 29th 1994 in Mecosta (Michigan), Russell Amos Kirk died at the age of 75, a political philosopher, historian of political thought, literary critic and a novelist (author of horror novels); received his doctorate in literature at the University of St Andrews in Scotland; an associate of the National Review and […]

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António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar

| 28 kwietnia 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

125 years ago on April 28th 1889 in Vimieiro near Santa Comba Dão ( Viseu ) António de Oliveira Salazar was born , an economist and a Catholic statesman a ("mystic devoted to God and numbers"); he came from the lower classes, entered the seminary and received lower ordination, but did not become a priest […]

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Louis XX

Louis XX

| 25 kwietnia 2013 | 2 komentarze

40 years ago, on April 25th 1974 in El Pardo , near Madrid – the second son of the then Dauphin of France , Fr. Alphonse de Bourbon (since 1975 by the law a king of France and Navarre – Alfonso II ) and (the granddaughter of Gen. F. Franco) Carmen Martínez- Bordiú y Franco […]

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Henri Vaugeois

Henri Vaugeois

| 25 kwietnia 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

150 years ago on April 25th 1864, Henri Vaugeois was born in L' Aigle ( Lower Normandy), a philosopher, journalist and a nationalist-monarchist activist; he came from a republican family (one of his ancestors – J.-F. Vaugeois was a Jacobin and a King slayer of the Convent , yet another, a royalist who fought in […]

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Louis IX the Holy

Louis IX the Holy

| 25 kwietnia 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

800 years ago, on April 25th 1214 – as the second son of the then heir to the throne and from the year 1223 the King of France Louis VIII the Lion of the Capetian dynasty and St. Blanche of Castile – Louis de France, from November 8th 1226, the King of France Louis IX […]

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Jules Barbey d’ Aurevilly

Jules Barbey d’ Aurevilly

| 23 kwietnia 2013 | 0 Komentarzy

125 years ago, on April 23rd 1889, at the age of 80, Jules (Amédée) Barbey d' Aurevilly died in Paris, a Norman aristocrat, novelist, a poet, an essayist and literary critic called the "constable of literature", a representative of the "black " Romantic fantasy and horror,a theorist of dandyism and a precursor of decadence and […]

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