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What do you do when, after a long climb up a mountain path, you’ve reached the peak – and realize that it was only the first mountain that must be climbed? Do you dig your flag in the ground and declare victory? Do you turn back defeated? Or do you press on with renewed hope?
Oct. 7 marked the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which was originally known as Our Lady of Victory. The date commemorates the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the armies of the Christian west, united as the Holy League under King Philip II of Spain and Pope (later St.) Pius V, defeated the Ottoman Turks who would otherwise have conquered and blotted out all of Christianity from Europe.