Two Momentous But Little Remembered Dates In Western & Church
History  Recently two momentous events in Western and Church
History passed with hardly a mention. Actually, these events may
be better known in the Muslim world than the Christian world;
the Islamic army’s desecration of St. Peter’s in Rome, along
with St John Lateran and other churches in 846, and the stunning
defeat of the Islamic military onslaught by Charles  the Hammer
Martel at Tours, France in 732. Though these two events occurred
over 100 years apart, they do point out that until the Ottoman-
Turkish Islamic defeat in 1683 at the gates of Vienna; Europe
was facing a never ending threat from radical Islam. Yet how is
it that according to the mainstream media it was the fault of
Christians, and specifically Catholics? In my last article, I
wrote of the naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and the land at the
Gates of Vienna in 1683. Some wondered why I didn’t right about
Charles the Hammer Martel and some of the earlier Islamic
incursions into Eur