Today is the Feast of the Holy Rosary, established to commemorate the great naval victory at Lepanto in 1571, by which the Moslems were stopped definitively from invading Europe and ruling the Mediterranean Sea.
The famous Naval Battle of Lepanto took place on Oct 7, 1571. The Gulf of Lepanto is a long arm of the Ionian Sea running from east to west and separating the Peloponnesian peninsula to the south from the Greek mainland to the north. The Christian fleet was assembled by Pope St. Pius V, who also appointed the 26 year-old genius, Don Juan of Austria, as the general of the Christian forces. Don Juan's forces were far smaller than the Turkish ones, partly because under advice from the pope, he refused to take any soldier or sailor with him who lived a bad life. As the Christians sailed into battle, they prayed the Rosary. And the victory was so enormous that everybody regarded it as a miracle.
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Excellent post. Our civilization would be so much different if this battle was won by the Mohammedians.
For the worse, I believe.
To: Hermann the Cherusker
Great post. Lepanto is a truly great moment in Christian history which should be better known and celebrated today.
I should point out that the myth of Turkish invincibility was actually broken six years prior to Lepanto at the great siege of Malta of 1565. It was there that the Knights of St. John and a small army of a few thousand Christians held out against a Turkish invasion some 40,000 strong. Had this invasion succeeded, it could have had grave consequences as Malta was seen as an advance base from which to launch a full-scale invasion of Italy.
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