12 September 2008

The Most Holy Name of Mary

The great victory, which John Sobieski, king of Poland, gained against the Turks under the walls of Vienna, caused the Pope Innocent XI to make this feast obligatory throughout the whole Western Church as a yearly act of thanksgiving for the deliverance of Christian Europe.

The requested picture of Gaming: in the center you can see the red-roofed Kartause Maria Thron:

We spent the evening at the Kartause in the ITI common room with many of the students, and with much wine and cheese. We also discovered a new Austrian herbal liquor, which we sampled at dinner with a toast to the salvation of Christendom.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey! What happened to the crane!

Unknown said...

I'm glad you noticed. In fact, it's gone!