Feast of Our Lady of Victory

Pope Leo XIII, AUGUSTISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE (On the Confraternity of the Rosary), September 12, 1897: “The history of the Church bears testimony to the power and efficacy of this form of prayer [public], recording as it does the rout of the Turkish forces at the naval battle of Lepanto, and the victories gained over the same in the last century at Temesvar in Hungary and in the island of Corfu. Our predecessor, Gregory XIII., in order to perpetuate the memory of the first-named victory, established the feast of Our Lady of Victories, which later on Clement XI. distinguished by the title of Rosary Sunday and commanded to be celebrated throughout the universal Church.”