The Road to Reconquista
The situation for the Hispano-Romans under Don Pelayo seemed hopeless and so does ours.
The Reconquista Begins Here
OnePeterFive joins the Reconquista pilgrimage in Spain.
Protector of the Indians
Above: the old and new basilicas of Our Lady of Guadalupe. All photos by the author. In the year 1527 King Charles V of Spain spent Holy Week at the Franciscan Monastery of Barajo near the city of Burgos in northern Spain. Friar Juan de Zumarraga was the prior of the monastery at this time.…
From Spain to the Americas for Columbus Day
Above: Columbus before the Queen by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 – 1868). Editor’s note: the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar is October 12th which explains why Columbus Day matters to Our Lady. On Hispanidad Hispanidad is a concept that the sentinels of political correctness have completely banished even from our Spanish language, but…
Hispanic Thanksgiving for Colonialism Day
In our modern epoch, we see the tactic of the Freemasons (and later the Marxists) is in writing ideological historical narratives designed to make Catholics ashamed of their history. Using textbook Communist tactics, these enemies of Christ find some real grievance somewhere in Christendom past or present, and then magnify and exaggerate this beyond all…
Our Lady of Pueblito Against Pagan Idols
Above: the abandoned pagan pyramid of Kukulcán, in Yucatán, Mexico, photographed in 1860. Public domain. The year was 1632. Padre Nicolas de Zamora was heartsick. Disconsolate. He was the pastor of the parish of El Pueblito, a small hamlet 6 miles north of the city of Querataro in central Mexico. The city of Queretaro was…
Leftists Target Spain’s Relics and World Record, Public Cross
Above: a few young monks on their evening walk at the feet of the world’s largest cross. Photo credit Valle de los Caídos @hospederiavc. Editor’s note: as part of Hispanidad, our series on the glories of Spanish Christendom, we turn to this critical monument of 20th century Spanish history in the struggle for the Faith…
El Pórtico de la Gloria and the Music of Pilgrims
Today is the Feast of St. James the Greater, the apostle “friend of the Lord” together with Peter and John. Nine hundred years ago, in 1122, while the last stone of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela was being laid, Pope Calixtus II (†1124) announced the first Holy Year of Compostela for 1126, establishing that…
Carlists Launch Rosary Crusade to Consecrate Texas
June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Hence, the Traditionalist Carlist Circle “Camino Real de Tejas” launched a modest initiative to consecrate the State of Texas to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It consisted in a rosary march over downtown Dallas with the purpose of asking Our Lady for her intercession, so…
The Forgotten Catholic Founding of America
Founding Mythos Florida is an often maligned and misunderstood place. A region shrouded in mystery from its inception even until today. It is enigmatic, the subtropical womb in which the first European American civilization was born. A forgotten Catholic and Hispanic society, erased by those that came after. In many ways the history of Florida…
Hispanic America on the 4th of July
Above: For Spain and for the King, Galvez in America (2016) by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto (b. 1964) Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. –John F Kennedy, May 1961…