The Most Holy Name of Mary

September 12th is the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary.
In this podcast I recount the event in history that led to the creation of this feast day. It is worth knowing, as are many things in history.
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Transcript

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This Sunday, the 12th of September is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Of course we won't celebrate it this year because it is a Sunday. The 24th Sunday in ordinary time takes precedence in the older calendar, the 16th Sunday after Pentecost takes precedence. You probably also know that this year is 20 years since the Islamic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and some historians have pointed out that the reason that that date was chosen by the terrorists has to do with this story about the feast of the Holy name of Mary. What I'm about to tell you is not my own words. It comes from an article on a Catholic website called One Peter five, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes for today. So I'm reading not my own words, but the words of one of their writers, Peter tab broski. And this article about the feast of the Holy name of Mary and its history was published on the 9th of September this year. So let me read to you. The year is 1683. The Muhammad and Empire have slowly rebuilt its forces since its defeat In 1571 at the Naval Battle of Le Panto, The news was spreading in Europe that the Turks had assembled a massive army to strike at the heart of Europe in anticipation of an ottoman invasion. Emperor Leopold, the first of Vienna in the Holy Roman empire, made a bilateral defense treaty with King Jan Zaki II of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth on March 31st, 1683 backed and guaranteed by Pope Innocent the 11th. The unfolding of subsequent subsequent events is remembered and recalled with pride by the polls and defenders of Western civilization. To this day, the consistent military successes of the outnumbered Polish ssars against overwhelming odds is astounding and many historians credit victory to military marvels. However, those that reduce the success of the battle of Vienna to military history grossly underestimate the forces at play in the battle which help decide the fate of Western civilization. On July 14th, 1683, a force of 170,000 men, the main army of the Ottoman Empire led by Carter and Mustafa, arrived at the gates of Vienna and sent the traditional demand of surrender to the city. Only days ago, a similar offer for surrender was accepted by a small town south of Vienna resulting in a mass slaughter of its inhabitants. Therefore, Vienna knew that surrender was not an option. The Ottoman Sapers dug tunnels under the walls and packed them with gun powder with the ese digging counter tunnels sat to sabotage their efforts in a siege that lasted for months. Emperor Leopold, I fled Vienna with his court westward and sent out messengers for immediate help to the rulers of Europe, one of which reached King Yarns Aki III of Poland, which read quote, we are not expecting your Majesty's troops so much as your person. We are sure that your royal person at the head of our troops and your name so dangerous to our common enemies will ensure their defeat by themselves. End of Zaki was known as an exemplary military leader, not only in Europe, but to the Ottomans as well. If going to war were only up to King Aki, then he would leave immediately. However, even with the treaty, according to Polish law, the decision to fight a war in foreign territory was the jurisdiction of the parliament who given a difficult financial situation and being involved in many recent conflicts was not enthusiastic about going to war. The Marion monk and confessor of King Yang Yazaki since Stans Law's p Kazinski, who earlier founded a Marion religious order, prayed all night with the rosary in hands and begged the blessed Virgin Mary for help who appeared to him with a message. At dawn, Stanis law's rush to tell the king the message he received from the Blessed Virgin. What did the Blessed Virgin say to your father? Speak The monarch was impatient. I assure you, your majesty by the name of the Virgin Mary that you will conquer and cover yourself, the Polish knighthood and your homeland with immortal glory. Father Stan slus said that in a trembling voice, Soki doubt the words of the blessed of Virgin. As he had developed a devotion to her as a child, he grew up hearing about his great-grandfather, Stan Slav Shva Shva Kiki, who was a great military commander and wore a golden ring with the Latin words. Manchi slave of Mary Soki immediately ordered his entire court to be awakened and prepare for a military expedition. He asked Father Stan SL to repeat his assurance about the victory of the Polish army at Vienna in the presence of the parliament and the papa messenger. With that parliament gave their approval for war on July 18th, 1683 on the way to crack of from Warsaw. In order to seek the help of the queen of heaven in Poland, Sobieski made a pilgrimage to the YA monastery in chest Tova. Never before did Yas Nara host the king and queen or such a large group of nobility. As this year from the monastery, he set out sent out 200 letters to military commanders throughout Poland for the immediate mobilization of all forces for war. Saki made a humble confession, prayed in front of the miraculous painting of our Lady of jest Hoover, and attended daily mass and received the Holy Eucharist. He also received from the hands of the Pauline Monk, the sword of the heroic military commander. His great-grandfather, Stan sl sh Kiski, with the inscription, I am a slave of Mary Sobieski departed jta Kova took crack of where soldiers and commanders from the entire nation were together. On his way. He stopped at various Marion centuries to pray for divine assistance. Once in Krakoff, Sobieski went to seven churches to pray for victory. On August 15th, the feast day of the assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary King Yazaki left Krakoff ov to join with his army, which had departed earlier under two of his military commanders, leaving the entire nation virtually undefended the entire Polish army and king passed through the mountains, forests and crossed rivers and headed towards Vienna to save the future of Christian civilization. On September the sixth, Sobieski and his army crossed the Danube at Tulin 30 kilometers north of Vienna where the German and Austrian army gathered and were placed under his command. This brought the total number of troops to 70,000 to 80,000, including 30,000 of his own men to face the remaining force of 150,000 Turks, which lost 20,000. During the siege. On September the 12th, the day of the Battle King Yazaki stood at on the peak of the Linberg mountains north of Vienna, seeing the enemy for the first time he noticed with his trained eye errors in their formations and took this as a first sign from God of impending victory before battle. The holy sacrifice of the mass was said for Zaki and the Polish nobility by Father Marco Davi, the apostolic messenger and Zaki entrusted himself and the whole army to the blessed mother. After two months of siege by the muhammadans, the situation around Vienna was dire. The Turks had taken all the surrounding villages and inside the city, walls of Vienna disease was rampant. Stocks of food were dwindling. Fatigue among soldiers was so great that any soldier found asleep. On watch was ordered shop dead. The Ottoman Zappers had already blown up massive portions of the wall and the ese anticipating a breach were preparing for combat inside the city. The Sapers were getting ready for the final detonation of 10 more mines. This very moment was the peak of power for the Emper empire of Mohamed, which was about to flood into Christendom for the first time since the invasion of Spain in seven 11. Meanwhile, days before this, Sobieski had sent an express messenger back to Poland to deliver the word to his wife, queen Maria Gata, that his army was about to engage the enemy. The message reached the queen on September the 10th during her nightly prayers. So the queen organized in Cracko a possess procession of the spiritual army with the Holy Eucharist, sun rosary with the queen dressed in black. On September the 12th, the exact day of the battle throughout crack of all fires were extinguished and churches were packed with people preying the rosary all day and fasting on bread and water for victory against the Muslim army. The troops signaled their arrival to the Ottoman forces by setting bonfires on the mountain. Before the battle, Sobieski shouted soldiers, not only Vienna must be saved, we must save all Christianity soldiers. We fight for our lady of chest tova for the black Madonna. End of quote. When the Turks noticed Sobieski's army, they immediately attacked and the battle began at 4:00 AM Sobieski fought the Turks and at the same time adjusted his forces to take back fortified villages in an attempt to reach the Vienna city walls and lift the seal, lift the siege. After eight hours of furious combat, Sobieski had taken key villages and was moving closer to striking at Vienna. After two more hours of fighting, the army of Christendom was getting closer to rescuing their brethren behind the city walls and Zaki shifted to attack the core strength of the Mohamed army preceding Vienna, he moved his elite heavy Cav Calvary unit into position they were known as the winged ha sars. As the cavalry neared their moment to charge, they bellowed out the song Sk Mother of God or Theo Toks. It is recorded that after the infantry had captured most of the strategic positions, the elite wing tatars all in a state of grace slowly emerged from the edge of the ese forest. At 4:00 PM cheered by the Onlooking allied infantry who were expecting them, they advanced forward pressing the Turks as they approach the central position of the siege, The Hassar regrouped, and at 6:00 PM Kings Aki ordered the final lethal blow and led the cavalry in charging the Turks himself. Three groups of Polish and one from the Holy Roman empire equaled 18,000 heavy, heavy calvary it the largest caval recharge in recorded history. This charge first started slow to conserve the horse's energy, then gradually picked up to full gallop, while simultaneously lowering the six meter lance to a horizontal position towards the enemy as the hassar holding the lance level with all his strength braced for impact with the full momentum of a racing horse, an elite warrior, and the grace of God behind the six meter spear, innumerable Turks were sent to be judged in the divine court by Jesus Christ, the one they rejected as God. The pain of the sentence issued was infinitely greater than the sphere which sent them there, and they would have rather relived that moment of mortal death perpetually for eternity than the spiritual death. In the fire of the abyss, the wing TAs charged down the hill and as and as if by the hand of God swept past the lines of the Ottoman army, as their elite soldiers were decimated, King Yaki and his winged, his eyes had won the battle and saved not only Vienna, but Christian civilization from the rot of Islam. Due to diplomatic oversight or perhaps with a deliberate decision, Sobieski triumphantly entered Vienna before the Holy Roman emperor. The people kissed the hands, feet, and garments of the king. The king took his first steps to St. Stephen's Cathedral, then to the Augustinians, where he laid a wreath in the chapel of our Lady of Loretto, offered to him by the people of Vienna after the mass, the king with the army saying Soki wrote a letter of victory to Pope Innocent the 11th with the famous words, ve, we came. We saw God conquered in a letter to his wife, written the next day after the battle, he wrote, ours are treasures unheard of tense sheep, cattle, and no small number of camels. It is victory as nobody ever knew, the enemy now completely ruined. Everything lost for them, they must run for their sheer lives. Commander Stamberg hugged and kissed me and called me his savior. End of quote, Pope Innocent the 11th by the request of King Yazaki made September the 12th a feast of the most holy name of Mary to commemorate the victory that was done in her name. Pope Paul the vi later abolished the feast in the Nervous Auto, but it was restored by Pope John Paul ii. A Polish Pope Carter, upon returning to the Ottoman Empire, was sentenced to death for his defeat on December the 25th Christmas Day, as if by God's providence, the death of the one who tried to destroy Christian civilization happened on the day of the Perth of the one on whom Christian civilization was built and was now to continue. Jesus is King and Mary ever virgin. That's the end of the article. I hope you might look at it in the on the site of one Peter five. There are some wonderful links to other sources as well as a great recording of the Hyn that the Wing Taza sang on their charge towards Vienna, and you might find many of the other articles on one Peter five interesting and helpful as well. May God bless you and may the most holy name of Mary be always honored and treasured. Amen.