Cervantes that wrote Man of La Mancha was wounded at the battle of Lapanta! And a reproduction of the poncho of Juan Diego with the effigy of Our Lady of Guadalupe was on the flag ship in that battle!
@DriftlessCatholic
2 жыл бұрын
Lepanto Poem - GK Chesterton 1:08:35
@martaacosta4415
Жыл бұрын
I’m truly shocked that a writer and thinker of the caliber of Chesterton would indulge in that monstrous lie known as the black legend. Not only is the black legend fiction created to disdain Spain, and all things Hispanic; it also disdains Catholicism. Philip II was a devout Catholic and possessed a strong work ethic.He was an austere man who believed a monarch’s duty was to work on behalf of his people and his kingdom, and to promote the Faith. Ruling an empire on which the sun never set, and hearing holy Mass were the only activities he had time for, unlike Louis XIV of France for example, le Roi Soleil, who created a culture of splendor in his court. In his final years, Philip II consecrated himself to a life of prayer, living very much like a monk in El Escorial, while his son ran the Empire (and😅 initiated its collapse). In short, Chesterton should have read up on Philip a little more before accepting and reiterating the stereotypes of the black legend.
@ThomasL58
11 ай бұрын
Maybe we didn't read the same theorem, but how can the following lines be construed as part of the leyenda negra? "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,"
@philipbruno93
11 күн бұрын
Is there a pdf of this presentation ? I wish to print this transcript.
@rockybato67
Жыл бұрын
Like the history 100 yrs of war lead by Joan of Arc France vs England.
@Lollygagger-k4p
9 ай бұрын
As an American, and as a Protestant, I would offer another battle that could qualify as the Battle that saved Christianity: Vienna 1683. Great though it was, Lepanto checked Ottoman power in the Mediterrainian, limiting them to the Aegean and the eastern waters, forcing them to go back to land conquest, where Vienna was the checkmate 100 years later. Lepanto did not represent the peak of the Ottoman Empire's power, but Vienna did, as it caused the physical recoil of Ottoman power over lands and people. From 1683, they were never the same advancing threat to the West, and , with rebellions in their eastern provinces, were forced to parley more and more with Europe regarding sea routes of trade. The Ottomans then turned more and more towards dominating Russia in the Crimea, with mixed results, and controlling land routes out of China. One of the several reasons for the gradual domination by Europeans was the technology of gun powder and metallurgy in the west. From Lepanto to Vienna, It had over-taken Ottoman technology, and the Europeans were producing better cannons and muskets. With better guns, better tactics followed. Perhaps Lepanto should be considered - along with other great battles between Islam and Christianity in the 16th and 17th centuries, to be like Kursk, or Stalingrad, or Leningrad, or Kiev, all epic battles that together, make up a whole era in the turn-around of a great power struggle. Totally lost me at the Corpus twisting away , dodging a cannon ball, the marmoset heroically tossing grenades over the side, the shattered sword, and, what Catholic would take a sword to a Crucifix anyway? etc, etc, etc... c'mon people....
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