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  • Catholic Caucus: The Pope, the Rosary and the Battle of Lepanto

    10/06/2019 5:15:30 PM PDT · by Coleus · 10 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | 10.07.19 | Kathy Schiffer
    n October 7, Catholics remember Our Lady of the Rosary.The feast was actually instituted under another name: In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted “Our Lady of Victory” as an annual feast in thanksgiving for Mary’s patronage in the victory of the Holy League over the Muslim Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. Two years later, in 1573, Pope Gregory XIII changed the title of this feastday to “Feast of the Holy Rosary.” And in 1716, Pope Clement XI extended the feast to the whole of the Latin Rite, inserting it into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, and assigning it...