Roberto Galvez, assistant vice president for human resources at
Lepanto, said among the six passengers on the plane is Bruce Robertson, an Australian engineer.
After nearly a year, Cervantes, bored with the routine and with Acquaviva, joined the papal forces going to fight in
Lepanto. He could not fight with the Spanish navy because of the warrant for his arrest.
The historical connections with James, however, grow rather more interesting at this point, for James had authored `Lepanto', a narrative poem with a very Venetian and military interest, describing the decisive battle of
Lepanto (Sunday 7 October 1571) in which the Turks were routed by Don John of Austria, son of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.
All three commemorate the Battle of
Lepanto of 1571, when a Christian fleet led by the papacy, Venice and Habsburg forces sailing under the flag of the Holy Roman Empire virtually destroyed the ships of the Ottoman empire in a celebrated engagement which took place off the western coast off modern-day Greece.
He took part in the decisive sea battle against the Turks at
Lepanto (1571), during which he received a wound that permanently crippled his left hand.
Pope Pius V (1504-1572) organized an alliance against the Turks, and 208 Catholic galleys (oared ships) clashed with 273 Ottoman galleys in a three-hour fight at
Lepanto. The Catholics won a complete victory.
Sources: Beeching, Jack, The Galleys at
Lepanto. New York, 1982.
In 1569 he went to Italy, became a soldier, and fought in the battle of
Lepanto (1571), in which he acquitted himself with distinction and lost the use of his left hand; he was extremely proud of his role in the famous victory and of the nickname he had earned, el manco de
Lepanto.
Butch Mendizabal, communication officer, said this year's workshop was facilitated by the
Lepanto National High School (LNHS) Gambang Theater Guild members.
He later changed it to Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary after the Holy League defeated the Turks in the Battle of
Lepanto, off the coast of Greece, in a place now called Naupactos.
Art experts pointed to the bocetos of 'La Batalla de
Lepanto,' in the holdings of the National Museum of the Philippines and now on loan to the National Gallery Singapore: they're studies of certain aspects of the actual work, also a mural depicting the Battle of
Lepanto that now hangs in the chamber of deputies or lower house in Madrid.
Prime Orion is behind the 460-hectare Laguna Technopark and the 14-hectare
Lepanto warehouse in Calamba, Laguna.
--Michael Hichborn, president of the conservative
Lepanto Institute, denounces the AUSCP's resolutions advancing gender equality among the Catholic hierarchy.
