“Supposedly, at a critical moment in the battle, the Turkish force was thrown into alarm by an apparition in the sky of a great and angry Lady directing her wrath against them.”
Inasmuch as my wife had not yet been born, it must have been the BVM!
As a boy in Catholic elementary school, I imagined the fearsome Lady of the Battle of Lepanto to be something like a spiritual manifestation of one of our nuns on a full tear against a classroom miscreant. Surely the Turks would have been struck with fear at such an apparition!