With this heightened fear of invasion, the Pope issues a plea to form a Holy League (in the book it is called a Catholic League) to unite forces against the impending threat of Turkish forces.īut it is one thing to issue a plea for action and another to carry it out. On top of this, the Sultan has been rapidly increasing his fleet of galleys and Corsair pirates have been massacring more and more Christians or kidnapping them as slaves.
They have been raiding the coastal towns of Italy, France and Spain, plundering and burning, and kidnapping Christians as slaves. The Turkish Ottoman Empire has wrested control of the Mediterranean Seas, instilling fear in all who wish to sail there. 1960, Lepanto Press, 188 pages, Hardcover
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