Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice to form a single large State - always called the Kingdom of Sardinia - but which internally had nothing - or almost nothing - of Sardinian. To obtain it ...

It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled ...

In the 16th century, the dukes of Savoy struggled to maintain the independence of their territories, coveted by the rival European powers. After his father lost the duchy to France and Spain ...

He appointed the Twelve: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to ...

Francis was born in 1567 in the castle of Sales, duchy of Savoy (then part of the Holy Roman Empire). He was the eldest of six siblings. He had a restless and playful character, to the point that ...