I’m a little late in mentioning this, but today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which is also a commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, a battle in which the Turkish fleet was repulsed by a smaller Christian navy. Pope Pius V attributed the victory to the power of the Rosary and declared this feast. It is a good day to pray for deliverance from Muslim terrorists.
Not only praying for deliverance from Muslim terrorists but praying for the propagation of the one True Faith.
It is a good day to pray for deliverance from Muslim terrorists
…and for reading the excellent poem, Lepanto, by G.K. Chesterton.
Uh…no offense but it (was and remains) also a good day to pray the Rosary. Period. For whatever your intentions, or hey, just for the heck of it, to honor Our Lady and her Son.
Don John of Austria has loosed the cannonade.
P.S., it’s also the three year anniversary of the first military counterstrike against the terrorists in Afghanistan.
Coincidental timing? Unlikely.
The Dutch politician Frits Bolkestein has warned that if Turkey enters the EU, as seems likely in a decade, “Europe would implode” and the victory over the Turks at Vienna in 1683—the one that delivered Europe at long last from an Islamic future—would be for naught.
Good article, Rod. The largest mosque in Europe is in Rome, only a couple of miles from St. Peter’s, in fact.