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Lepanto
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run,
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun. ( Read more... )
Celebrate today friends. For on this day in 1571 the Turks got
Pope St. Pius V requested that all of Europe join together in praying the Rosary for victory. Moments after the battle concluded with a Christian victory, Pius, who was hundreds of miles away in the Vatican, stopped what he was doing and said to his treasurer, "Peace. Let us put an end to our business for the day. Our Lady has just granted us a great victory and we must give thanks unto God." Official news of the Holy League's victory didn't reach the Vatican until several weeks afterward.
As Blessed Pius IX said, "Give me an army that prays the rosary and I can conquer the world." St. Pius V, pray for us. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
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