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| Mary the successful Admiral at Lepanto: Why not in the Spanish | |
| Armada 1588 or Trafalger 1805 | |
| By: HOLLAND Date: October 20, 2019, 3:12 pm | |
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| The Catholic church, for centuries, had lionized Mary's | |
| intercession and victory in the battle of Lepanto in 1571. From | |
| this victory, that church has encouraged its communicants that | |
| all faithful Catholics should pray to the Virgin Mary for | |
| victory in whatever life situation that they find themselves. | |
| A question that I have is this. Perhaps Mary had a successful | |
| admiralcy in the battle of Lepanto. But why didn't Mary | |
| intercede with the Lord and gain the victory in other battles as | |
| well. Despite Mary's intercession, why was there the stunning | |
| defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and that of Trafalger in | |
| 1805? Did Mary want to have a Catholic victory over the | |
| Protestants, or was she indifferent to those interceding to her? | |
| #Post#: 24289-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Mary the successful Admiral at Lepanto: Why not in the Span | |
| ish Armada 1588 or Trafalger 1805 | |
| By: Kerry Date: October 20, 2019, 6:30 pm | |
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| [quote author=HOLLAND link=topic=1453.msg24288#msg24288 | |
| date=1571602321] | |
| The Catholic church, for centuries, had lionized Mary's | |
| intercession and victory in the battle of Lepanto in 1571. From | |
| this victory, that church has encouraged its communicants that | |
| all faithful Catholics should pray to the Virgin Mary for | |
| victory in whatever life situation that they find themselves. | |
| A question that I have is this. Perhaps Mary had a successful | |
| admiralcy in the battle of Lepanto. But why didn't Mary | |
| intercede with the Lord and gain the victory in other battles as | |
| well. Despite Mary's intercession, why was there the stunning | |
| defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and that of Trafalger in | |
| 1805? Did Mary want to have a Catholic victory over the | |
| Protestants, or was she indifferent to those interceding to her? | |
| [/quote]Not sure how that works, Holland. | |
| #Post#: 24296-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Mary the successful Admiral at Lepanto: Why not in the Span | |
| ish Armada 1588 or Trafalger 1805 | |
| By: HOLLAND Date: October 21, 2019, 5:28 pm | |
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| [quote author=Kerry link=topic=1453.msg24289#msg24289 | |
| date=1571614254] | |
| Not sure how that works, Holland. | |
| [/quote] | |
| I'm not sure myself, Kerry. Catholics supposedly treasure | |
| Mary's intercession because "her Son will not deny his Mother | |
| anything". | |
| Her intercession supposedly worked at Lepanto in 1571, but | |
| failed in the English Channel in 1588 and at Trafalger in 1805. | |
| Consider how Catholics talk about Lepanto, how God favors the | |
| Catholic church over other false religions, it is probably a | |
| great mystery to Catholics when the intercession fails. | |
| There could be a human explanation. Mary, as mortal, can only | |
| take a certain number of prayers before she reaches a point of | |
| overload, and cannot take any more intercessions. Maybe the | |
| Catholic Virgin Mary was blitzed by too many prayers from too | |
| many people, plus the soldiers and sailors that were present in | |
| the Spanish Armada and at Trafalger. Perhaps this created some | |
| mental confusion on her part and so she didn't ask the Son of | |
| Man in a timely manner, and other intercessions came before him | |
| sooner. | |
| #Post#: 24311-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Mary the successful Admiral at Lepanto: Why not in the Span | |
| ish Armada 1588 or Trafalger 1805 | |
| By: HOLLAND Date: October 23, 2019, 6:38 pm | |
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| I understand that the Catholic Virgin Mary is an honorary | |
| Admiral in the Spanish Navy since Lepanto. She is also an | |
| honorary General in the Spanish Army since her intercession is | |
| credited for victory by Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil | |
| War. | |
| Is the Catholic Virgin Mary's possible delegated pay being doled | |
| out for charitable purposes? | |
| Is the Catholic Virgin Mary revered in pictures depicting her | |
| dressed in ancient and modern military uniforms? | |
| Is the Catholic Virgin Mary's intercession to victory for | |
| Francisco Franco a display of her sympathy for fascism? | |
| If the Catholic Virgin Mary's intercession to victory is to be | |
| revered, why aren't American Catholics lobbying to have the | |
| Catholic Virgin Mary enrolled as an honorary American General | |
| and Admiral? | |
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