Battle of lepanto

April 30: To commemorate the great deliverance from the battle of Lepanto, on October 7, 1571, Pope Pius V instituted the title of “Our Lady Help of Christians” and the feast of the Holy Rosary.

'BATTLE OF LEPANTO The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, of which the Venetian Empire and the Spanish Empire were the main powers, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras, where Ottoman forces sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto met the fleet of the Holy League sailing east from Messina, Sicily. The Holy League was a coalition of European... World History

Madonna della Vittoria di Lepanto / Our Lady of Victory of Lepanto and Hungary, (1716) – 23 March: The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place between the ships of the Cathol…

Turkish Galley 1571. Last night saw thew first ever naval battle played in the Wargamorium. It was set in the Mediterranean in the 1570s around the time of the Battle Of Lepanto. The ships are 1/3…

The Turkish fleet came on imposing and terrible, all sails set, impelled by a fair wind, and it was only half a mile from the line of galliasses and another mile from the line of the Christian ships. D. John waited no longer; he humbly crossed himself, and ordered that the cannon of challenge should […]

COMMENTARY: Our world today would look very different if not for Our Lady of Victory’s miracle at Lepanto 450 years ago this October.

October 7 is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (a.k.a. Our Lady of Victory), commemorating the Blessed Virgin Mary’s intercession at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, in which the Catholic forces of the Holy League defeated a massive Ottoman fleet.

Lepanto " The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed ." (Cervantes) We cannot but recall that four great Roman Pontiff...

Don John of Austria triumphant at the Battle of Lepanto