The Virgin Mother of Good Counsel - the Catholic Kingdom!

8 THE VIRaIN MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSELyears he saved his own country and Christendom. Hehad but just passed to his reward, when Mary causedHer miraculous Image to break away from the walls ofHer temple in Scutari and to pass to Latium. His asheswere not cold, when the Turks in unconquerable might,swept over the land and passed to the Adriatic. Italy,preserved anew by Mary, presented an impregnablebarrier; and the Pontiffs ceased not to oppose the foe,until finally the new home of Mary produced a secondScanderbeg. At a moment of supreme danger,St. Pius V., a most devout client of the Virgin Motherof Good Counsel, had called to the command of hisfleet Mark Antony Colonna, Lord of Genazzano, andProtector, as Scanderbeg once was, of the sacred Imageand Sanctuary of the Madonna of Good Counsel.Like George Castriota, Colonna was a devoted sonof God's Virgin Mother. Wonderfully did She aid him.The Turks, as omnipotent in the Mediterranean asupon land, meditated new invasions. The Christianswere in imminent peril in Italy and all along theEuropean seaboard. But the client of Mary prevailed.At Lepanto, the Pope's Admiral conjointly withDon John of Austria, gave a blow to the preeminenceof. the Turk upon water from which Islam has neversince recovered. And later, as upon water so uponland, it was the power of Good Counsel given byMary that finally crushed this foe of the Christianname. Innocent XI., after many unsuccessful attemptsto unite Christendom against the tremendous armamentsof Moslem might launched against Austria, hadno sooner ordered the Chapter of St. Peter's to crownwith diadems the sacred Image of Our Lady at Ge-PRIVATE USE ONLY