To: Cicero
Excellent, and thanks for the background.
The victory @ Lepanto was a miracle without a doubt and attributable to the Holy Rosary prayed by the men on the ships, and so many others including Pope St. Pius V, that fateful morning.
Don't you agree that if this battle were lost, Europe would have fallen like dominos towards Islamist domination?
106 posted on
09/11/2006 9:24:21 AM PDT by
vox_freedom
(Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
To: vox_freedom
Indeed. I won't argue whether Lepanto or Vienna was the more important victory over the Turkish expansion, but they were both absolutely crucial.
Also, perhaps, Ivan the Terrible's conquests of the Mongols. Ivan was not, to say the least, an admirable or saintly man, but he accomplished one crucial job, at least.
158 posted on
09/11/2006 3:03:11 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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