Thursday, May 25, 2017

What Is the Common Element Here??

Courtesy of Badger Catholic we are reminded of three Catholic feast days:

  • August 6, The Transfiguration of Christ, was extended to the Universal Church by Pope Calixtus III to celebrate legendary Hungarian general János Hunyadi’s victory over the Turks at Belgrade in 1456. This feast has great significance for Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches.
  • September 12, the Holy Name of Mary, celebrates the victory of John Sobieski and his Polish warriors over the Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
  • October 7, In thanksgiving for the victory at the Battle of Lepanto on the first Sunday(eventually a fixed feast on Oct 7) of October 1571, Pope St. Pius V ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary should be made on that day.  
See if you can notice the common element--and it is not "Turks" (which is a whitewash of the real enemy.....which was then and remains now an Invasive Species.....)

Will the Catholic Church have a feast day honoring the defeat of Mohammedan Terrorism??

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