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Our Lady of the Rosary
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Our Lady of the Rosary

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With the entire Mediterranean at the mercy of Ottoman fleets, Muslim slave-traders had been ravaging coastal towns in 16th century Europe, and carrying whole villages to the slave markets.  Pope Pius V helped organize a coalition of Christian fleets, notably Spanish, Venetian and that of the Papal States.  The Pope asked the Churches of Catholic […]