Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary — the day commemorating the victory of the vastly outnumbered Christian naval forces at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Since Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572) ...

John Barry says that in the last days of World War II, his great-grandfather, a prominent German art historian, lost a massive painting of the 16th-century sea battle at Lepanto. By Colin Moynihan In ...

Crowley (1453), an independent scholar of the 16th-century Mediterranean, focuses here on the final contest between Christian and Muslim, Hapsburg and Ottoman, for control of the Middle Sea.

Throughout history, Mary, the Mother of God, has used the Rosary and events such as the Battle of Lepanto, appearances at Fatima and Rosary rallies to show the value of joining together in prayer. In ...

28 x 38 cm. (11.0 x 14.9 in.), frame: 47 x 57 x 4 cm. 18 1/2 x 22.4 x 1.5 in.) ...

On Niccolo Capponi’s Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto. Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto. Da Capo, 412 pages, $27.50 “Lepanto” is a word that has only lost ...

IN one of the public squares of the city of Messina there stands a colossal bronze statue, by Andrea Calamach, which was erected in the year 1572, in honor of the great naval battle of Lepanto. The ...

As nearly 300 Ottoman ships closed in on Europe, intent on conquest and toppling the cross above St. Peter’s Basilica to replace it with their own banner, Pope Pius V called for another crusade. But ...

V. 1. From the earliest times to the Battle of Lepanto -- v. 2. From the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, to the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 -- v. 3. From the Seven Days Battle, 1862, to the Battle of ...