Ottoman’s Defeat at Lepanto in Western Greece in 1571 Is Still Celebrated By Catholics

This month, October, the Roman Catholic Church observes or celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, officially October 7. In 1571, the Holy See defeated the Muslim Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in the Gulf of Patras in Western Greece, after more than a century of battles for control of the Mediterranean. The …

The Reformation Incited French Wars of Religion

For more than half a century, 1534 to 1598, France was engaged in wars of religion between Catholics and Huguenots. In this short 10-minute documentary, History Matters explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcMVOKa2Os Recommended reading: The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 by Mack P. Holt. - Pretty much THE go to book about the French Wars of Religion. You …

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572 Sparked Murder of 2,000 to 70,000 People

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Wikipedia "King Charles IX of France, under the sway of his mother, Catherine de Medici, orders the assassination of Huguenot Protestant leaders in Paris, setting off …

Medici, Italian Renaissance’s Banking Family, Produced Four Popes and Two Queens of France

Traditional accounts of the Italian Renaissance portray the Borjias as corrupt and evil religious leaders, and the Medici as heroic financiers and philanthropists of stunningly beautiful art and architecture as well as fair-minded popes. I've already pointed out the reasons that popular portrayals of the Borjias, particularly the popular TV series, exaggerate their deviance. Two …

Scotland’s Mary Queen of Scots’ Rivalry with England’s Queen Elizabeth I Is Focus of Movie and Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5l8cvuo7IA The 2018 film, Mary Queen of Scots, told the remarkable story of the girl "who became Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18. Mary Stuart defied pressure to remarry. Instead, she returned to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. However, Scotland and England fell under the rule of the compelling …

England’s Forgotten Muslim History

"One of the more surprising aspects of Elizabethan England (1558-1603) is that its foreign and economic policy was driven by a close alliance with the Islamic world, a fact conveniently ignored today by those pushing the populist rhetoric of national sovereignty." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/englands-forgotten-muslim-history.html?_r=0

Queen Elizabeth I Kept A Fractious England Together By Marshaling Absolute Power and Defeating the Spanish Empire

Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England from 1558 to 1603, was one strong woman, who by force of will and strength kept England together. She was probably the most shining and successful example of a benevolent monarch from the Age of Absolutism. She was certainly better than her father King Henry VIII (1491-1547), who one historian compared …

If Ottomans Took Vienna Even Briefly, Anglican Church Might Not Exist

The empire of Ottoman (Turkish) Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent spread all the way to the gates of Vienna in the 1520s. Could he have taken it, and Europe? This is the subject of numerous videos on Youtube.com: This video from the Christian Broadcasting Network demonizes the Ottomans because they were Muslims and attributes "God's intervention …