Sunday, 12 May 2013

Pope canonises 800 Italian Ottoman victims of Otranto



Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican - a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480. They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22499327#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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