by Martina Moyski • ChurchMilitant.com • July 20, 2019
Hungary celebrates 15th-century defeat of Muslim Turks
Do you know why the Angelus bells ring at noon? The answer traces back to July 22, 1456 and a history-altering battle in Hungary: a coalition of Christian soldiers, under the leadership of János Hunyadi, resisting the Ottoman Turks at Nándorfehérvár, now Belgrade.
János Hunyadi
Hungarians have commemorated the anniversary of this battle — and the victory — on July 22, after the noon Angelus bells ring out, in front of the statue of Hunyadi in the Castle District of Budapest.
Szilárd Németh, Ministry of Defense's Parliamentary State Secretary, the International Communications Office of Hungary, told Church Militant that the battle represents "a warning to the whole of Europe that the continent must not forget its history. Europe will be lost if it does not protect its own borders and its Christian culture."
Hunyadi had acquired fame as the "scourge of the Turks" (Törökverő) for …More