[TheCrusader]

"However, it looks like the Muslims are at it again, with the influx into Europe now, since the Europeans, for the most part, have abandoned Christianity. They need to be stopped!"

The great Catholic historian Hilaire Belloc wrote that Islam was only sleeping, lying in wait to rise again to strike a blow against Christianity. How right he was.

[Pyro7480]

Indeed. I have a copy of his book, "The Great Heresies," where he talks about this.

[Pyro7480]

How's this for a religious warrior?

This is a painting of St. John of Capistrano, whom the famous mission in California is named for. The painting was commissioned by Blessed Junipero Serra for the mission church. St. John was a Fransican friar who converted many Jews, preached against the heretical Hussites, and helped reform the Conventual Franciscans. But among his greatest acts was when he personally led an army against Muslim invaders in Eastern Europe near Belgrade in 1456, using a force only one-tenth the size of the Muslim army. The Christian forces defeated the Muslims on the feast day of St. Mary Magdalen.

The painting is the featured work of art in the October issue of Magnificat magazine.