Lone Star Parson

  This is a naval blog and today's the great Feast of Our Lady of Victory, now known as Our Lady of the Rosary, which celebrates the utt...

Love-light of Spain—hurrah!  Death-light of Africa!  Don John of Austria  Is riding to the sea. Today's the anniversary...

Here's some Lepanto, to inspire: White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as th...

It's the 444th anniversary of the battle of Lepanto, in which a Mohammedan navy was destroyed by a smaller Christian force, led b...

Today's the Feast of the Annunciation, and we rejoice with Mary over the message of an angel, Gabriel, which leads to the Incarnati...

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, commemorating the decisive defeat of the Muslim navy at Lepanto, on October 7, 1571. ...