Part 1: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics, since the 7th Century.

This is Part 1 of a five part series:  Part 2 is found, by clicking on the link below:

 

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war2.html

 

It's 1683 and it's exactly one-thousand, forty-nine years after the Muslim Religion first sent troops to attack and decimate all that is Christian and all who refused to pay the extortion tax called the Jizya. 

The Intrusive Islamic Jihad against Christendom has been an Ongoing Enterprise of the Muslim, dating as far back as 634 CE

Perhaps you remember.  Barack Obama made it sound as if the Muslims were in Jerusalem, polishing their holy holy halos, when all of a sudden, these evil evil white guys in armor came riding into town ... as if no Christian had ever been in Jerusalem before.   

Uhmmmm, Christianity, as was lead by Saints Peter, Andrew, John, and James, along with the rest of the dedicated witnesses of Jesus the Nazarene, began in Jerusalem on Pentecost Sunday.  

Many who were there, at the Jerusalem Pentecost,  ended up dying for their faith unarmed ... ~while NOT performing a suicide bombing on a Tel Aviv bus, ... ~and while NOT flying a hijacked jetliner into a New York City skyscraper filled with unarmed office workers.

Only AFTER 461 years of relentless & obsessive Muslim Military Aggression upon Christian lands did the first Crusade even begin

Qualifying statement:  Yes, there was a Muslim attack upon Christian Byzantium in 629, at Syria, in the Battle of Mu'tah.  But, the Islamic invaders were so outnumbered that even the three Muslim field marshals were killed in the Battle.  Then came the invasion of 633, resulting in the start of the Rashidun Caliphate.

None the less, those four and a half centuries of Muslim Aggression were the one continuous reason for finally embarking on the Crusades, in the first place.  And of course, Barack Obama did NOT tell you this. 

Note:  The list above left out the Invasion of Gaul, in 719.

The list below does not.  By the way, Gaul is present-day France.

The Year 2025 minus the Year 634 = 1,391 years of Muslim Aggression, committed by those sometimes named, the Ishmaelites, "the Believers," "the Saracens," "the Fatimids," and/or the "Mohammedans."

Then there was the matter of Muslims invading Zoroastrian lands with full military attacks.  That began in 633 AD.  By 651, the Muslims had destroyed the Sasanian Empire of the ancient Iranians.

In 638, Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab decreed that Christians would be given protection from violence when in Jerusalem.  Such a thing is allowed IF the non-Muslims pay the Jizya.  Such a thing is a steady income.  Jews were allowed to return there, too.  These civil rights were signed in the "Assurance of Umar."

As time proceeded, the Jews ended up having amicable relations with the Muslim Moors, in Granada Spain.  Again, Muslims were making money off of non-Muslims.  This relationship caused the Spanish Crown to conclude that the Jews were accomplices in the Muslims' control of Spain for 700+ years.  This is why Isabella ordered all non-convert Jews to leave Spain, as soon as Spain finally became liberated in full.  

Isabella was afraid that Jews would conspire with the Moors and retake Spain.   And of course, Spain was liberated in 1492.  This is why Columbus embarked on his expedition on the Atlantic Ocean in that same year.  

At the time, everyone acknowledged that Planet Earth was as round as is the Sun and the full moon.  It's just that Columbus thought that Planet Earth was a lot smaller than it was and that India was closer to Spain than it actually was.  Spain was having race for India, against Portugal.  In 1498, Vasco da Gama & Portugal won the race. 

The Year 1085

Now, in 1085, Catholic forces under Alfonso VI, recaptured Toledo, being that Toledo was part of a small Muslim kingdom within the larger Moorish kingdom.  Such a mini-kingdom is a "Taifa."  Thus, 1085 can be regarded as the prelude to the Crusades which officially started in 1095.  

The first crusade was a success for the Catholics who needed to stop the westward march of Muslim Aggression which was headed toward toward Greece yet again.  The first Crusade achieved the goal of enabling Christians the ability to travel-to their prime place of pilgrimage, without being harassed and even abducted.  

Of course, their prime place of pilgrimage was the land where Jesus the Nazarene performed his miracles, and where Elijah and Elias performed their miracles.

 

Then came the events of the Year 1095

In mathematical review, the Middle Eastern Crusades began in 1095 (CE).  Muslim aggression upon Christian lands began in 634 (CE).  In as much ... 1095 minus 634 = 461.  

All in all, 461 years of Muslim Military Aggression occurred before the first Crusade even began.  Below is a list of 11th Century Muslim attacks upon Christian lands which gave reason for the specific Crusade which began at the end of the 11th Century.

Connect the Dots ... Geographic regions attacked by the Muslims BEFORE ANY POPE EVEN ADVERTISED FOR A CRUSADE. 

Above:  'tis posted pursuant to 17 USC 107.   The red dots are places where the Muslims invaded and then engaged in warfare ... from 633 to the Year 1080.  Take note that the European Crusades did not begin until the Year 1095.

Now, if you capture a staging area, you prevent a major invasion.  So, the ultimate motive for the Crusades was to safeguard Greece.  Thus, territories in the Middle East needed to be taken away from the Muslims.  This included Jerusalem, a place which also had sentimental value for any Christian.  After all, at one time, in centuries prior, Jerusalem was a part of the Catholic Byzantine Empire.

Concurrence

Below is the video of Iranian-born Goldie Ghamari.  She was a member of the Ontario Canada provincial parliament until January 2025.  Her video explains the Crusades in general ... in brevity.  

She is the one who said that the Crusades were a response to the Islamic Jihad.  She also said that, if it were not for the Crusades, every person of European ancestry would be speaking Arabic, and every European woman would be wearing a burka as a requirement.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao8U8CswTgU

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And yes, approximately 50,000 of the 75,000 Iranian mosques have been closed, due to lack of interest amongst the Iranians.  Thus, the Liberation of Persia/Iran isn't an impossibility.

Once again, the link to Part 2 of this five part series is directly below:

 

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Part 2: Muslim Aggression toward Catholic & Others, since the 7th Century

This is actually Part 2 of a five part series.  Part 1 is found through the link below:

 

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war.html 

Now, you know whom & what the Muslims have targeted for destruction,
ever since the 600s CE.  Well, we're tired of it, squared & cubed.

In this series, Ishmaelites, Saracens, Fatimids, Muhammadans, and Muslims are defined as one in the same, in terms of religious beliefs & practice.

The major difference in the Islamic world is the Shiite Muslim vs the Sunna Muslim.  Now, both sects believe that a man named Mohammad existed and was chosen by God to be the last and decisive prophet.  

In as much, the Shiites believe that only descendants of the first Muslim can be the leaders of the Muslim Religion.  The Sunnis believe that Muslims are to vote for their leader.  And of course, their religion is Islam, and it means "Submission."

In fact, the word, Muslim, means, "one who submits."  Thus, a Muslim is one who seeks to get everyone to submit to his doctrine and beliefs, in the name of his definition of the Supreme Being whom the Muslim calls, Allah.  More specifically, Allah is Al-ilāh.  The "ilāh" part of  Al-ilāh means, "the Deity."

The War Within the Muslim Religion ... going back to the start

The conclusion is that, even within the Muslim religion there was no unity, due to the decisive debate between the Shiites and the Sunnis.  In fact, the Sunni Ottomans of Türkiye and the Shiites of Persia fought 11 wars between each other, from 1505 to 1823.  Both sides won 5 wars, lost 5 wars, and tied the same one war.

Then comes the Sufi Muslims who are said to be the sect magnetized toward peacefulness.  There is also the Ibadi Muslim sect which believes that any man who achieves holiness can be made a ruling caliph, despite his ancestry and despite the votes of the people.  Even though Ibadi Muslims are seen as extremists, they also have a degree or two of democratic tendencies.  

The Sunnis are the vast majority of Muslims, at approximately 85%.  The Shiites are second in population.  The Sufis & Ibadis are extreme minorities. 

All in all, the Muslim religion has a track record of invasion, violence, looting, and enslaving others.  Violence & Slavery is the Muslim Religion in practice.  This includes something known as "honor killings."  

The irony is that one of the Five Pillars of Islam is charity to those in need.  However, as soon as the politically reformed Muammar Gaddafi was tortured to death in 2011 ... with President Obama, VP Biden, and Sec of State Hillary looking the other way ... the slave trade had a resurgence in Muslim Libya.  Such a thing is the opposite of charity to those in need.

Nuch alowed in the Muslim religion is the opposite of charity to the needy/  This includes "killing the infidel who refuses to pay the Jizya which is equivalent to paying Mafia henchmen a "protection fee."  Even in 2025, Christians were heavily persecuted by Muslims.  This persecution is not a matter of dusty history books.  It's a matter of Current Events.  

Barack Obama called 2011 "the Arab Spring."  No.  It was a continuation of the 1,400 year old Muslim trend which began as follows and which also included centuries of slave-trading & slave-holding:

          Firstly, there was the invasion of Persia, in 633.   Then: 

In addition, it was in 846 AD (or CE) when Muslims attacked the outskirts of ROME.  Then, in 902 CE, the Muslims successfully captured parts of Southern Italy and Sicily.  

In summary, the events of the 7th to 11th Century, alone, show that the Muslims were never nice people who believed in the motto, "Live and let live."  Their message was, "Submit or die!"  

So, after a plea was made by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I to the Vatican, at the latter half of the 11th Century, it was surmised that some counter-measure against a constant military aggressor had to be done east of Rome.  It was a necessity, lest Greece be fully conquered, with Venice or Malta being next on the Muslim invasion list ... and with the Vatican being attacked after that.

This Muslim Aggressor included the 1456 Ottoman Siege of Belgrade which the Roman Catholic "Black Army" eventually won.  This also included the Muslims' 1529 failed Siege of Vienna which would be followed by the second failed Siege of Vienna, in 1683.

Incidentally, Vienna was very influential in the Holy Roman Empire.  Therefore, an attack on Vienna was an all-out attack on Roman Catholicism itself.

This trend of Muslim Aggression furthermore included the most emotionally dramatic historic event one can find, namely the 1565 Siege of Malta which included 40,000 Muslim attackers, 6,500 of whom were the elite Janissary Troops.  Those troops were all carried on 200 Muslims ships.  Barack Obama never told you this, either.

Of course, Malta was the second ultimate prize for the Muslims, with the Vatican being Muslim Prize Number One.  Prize #3 was Vienna.  

Christians were repeatedly the victims of the Muslims throughout the centuries.  They had to fight back, being that, time after time, Muslims invaded their countries ... as well as having pirated their ships ... even into the 1400s, the 1500s, and the 1600s.   After all, what would you do, if some gang constantly broke into your house, trying to rape your wife, steal your valuables, and sell your children into slavery, while keeping your house for themselves?

Coincidence or not?

As a point of curiosity, the Algerian naval commander, Turgut Reis, died on September 11th, marking the end of the Siege of Malta.  He is also known as Admiral Dragut. 

Furthermore, the SECOND SIEGE of Vienna was started by the Muslim forces on September 11, 1683.  Plus plus plus, the Battle of Zenta occurred on September 11, 1697.  That was when a Roman Catholic prince intercepted & defeated a Muslim army that was intent on recapturing Roman Catholic Hungary, for the Ottoman Empire.  In as much, did you ever wonder why the NYC Trade Tower Terrorists chose September 11th as their Target Day for Destruction?  

Six Years after the failed siege of Malta, the Muslims 

attacked Christendom with 67,000 military men, by sea

Shortly after the Malta Siege came the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, where the Roman Catholic Holy League decimated the advancing Ottoman fleet, in the Gulf of Patras.  This specific invasion of European Christendom included 278 ships, 222 of which were Muslim Galleys, and 56 of which were Muslim Galliots.  Needless to say, Barack Obama NEVER told you this aspect of Muslim history, either. 

The link to Part 3 is directly below:

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war3.html

Part 3: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics & Others, since the 7th Century

This is Part 3 of a five part series.  Part 2 is found here:

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war2.html

Barack Obama neglected to mention the Trans-Sahara & Maghreb Slave Trading Enterprises, in Northern Africa

In the Catholic World,  Slavery was banned in FOUR SPECIFIC RULINGS AND/OR DECREES.

Three individual popes issued documents condemning slavery, attaching to the transgressors loss of all privileges in and from Europe, as well as in and from the Catholic Church.  Then, in 1542, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, banned slavery in the New World, to the point of declaring all indigenous People of the Americas FREE PERSONS.  

Then came Pope Gregory XIV.  He issued a Papal Bull ... which is to be understood as a Papal Bulletin and which had the effect of an encyclical and a decree.  In 1591, by the force of law invested in Gregory XIV, the slaves of the Philippines were declared free in every legal level.

Previously, in 1526 Clement VII condemned the slavery in the Cape Verdi Islands, off the coast of Northwestern Africa.  Then, in 1541, Pope Paul III also condemned the enslavement of the indigenous people of the Americas.  

Next came Emperor Charles V, mandating the abolition of slavery in the Americas, with the power invested in him as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire & King of Spain. 

Sixtus V, in 1588, also condemned the enslavement of indigenous people in the Americas.  This was followed by Gregory XIV freeing on paper ... and in canonical law ... the indigenous people of the Philippines.  

Of course, there were no Swiss Guard Troops in the Philippines and in the Americas to enforce papal bulletins and decrees.  Yet, there was the matter of depriving the transgressors of all Catholic, all Spanish, and all Holy Roman Imperial privileges.

As a note for 2025/2026, the nation with the largest population of Roman Catholics in the world is the Philippines.

Just like the future NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS in the '40s

As a review, there were actually 13 distinct Nuremberg Trials.  As one of many results, a major Nazi propagandist was one of the defendants who ended up being put to death for his newspaper which did little more than incite murder and massive theft.  

In as much, people in the present-day mainstream media need to study that specific part of the trials, as well as studying the Tokyo Rose Trial.  You Race Warmongers and defamers of heads of state out there are NOT immune to your mouths and your typewritten articles.  This includes you editors, campaign managers, and CEO's of network TV.   Most important is the long-term observation that HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.  

Part 4 is found here:

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war4.html

Part 4: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics & Others, since the 7th Century

This is Part 4 of a five part series.  The link to Part 3 is located directly below:

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war3.html

Now remember, the FIRST & SECOND COUNTS of the introductory NUREMBERG TRIALS were 1] CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A WAR OF AGGRESSION, as well as 2] committing a WAR OF AGGRESSION.  This was otherwise known as Crimes Against the Peace.  

Well, Muslims have been committing such crimes of aggression since its very beginning.  Zoroastrian Persians were attacked.  Indian Hindus were attacked, too.  And of course,  Catholics were attacked, attacked again, and attacked some more, century after century after century.  

All in all, from its beginning, Islam has been a brutal menace to mankind.  As far back as 711 AD (or CE), the Muslims attacked Catholic Spain.  Then, for 700+ years they controlled the provinces of ~Almería, ~Cádiz, ~Córdoba, ~Granada, ~Huelva, ~Jaén, ~Málaga, and ~Seville.  Spain was not fully liberated until 1492.  That's 781 years of Occupation & Oppression ... done by Muslims upon the victimized Roman Catholics in Spain.

 

All in all, Christianity had to either counterattack the Muslim Aggressors or completely die.  On occasion, they were given the opportunity to be those second class citizens, called Dhimmi, who had to pay a submission tax, called the Jizya.   This option was basically the SLOW DEATH.

This Jizya was basically protection money and/or extortion.  Sometimes, it was regarded as a tribute.  It was forced upon Christians and other non-Muslims, under penalty of attack and death.  

As another example of early Muslim Aggression, the Muslims were violently trying to bring France into submission as far back as the 700s, during the days when the western part of the land was called Aquitaine.

Odo the Great ... Duke of Aquitaine ... and Charles Martel ... the powerful Mayor of Paris ... saved Catholicism in Western Europe from Muslim Military Expansionism.  Yet, Spain remained a captive of the very Muslim Moors who were a part of the Umayyad Caliphate. 

See:  The 721 Battle of Toulouse and the 732 Battle of Tours, when you have the time and the curiosity to do so. 

Step by step, Spain regained its independence.  None the less, even into & including the Year 2024, Muslim nations outright persecuted Christians.  This included the Catholics and Protestants in Nigeria today.  Meanwhile, western nations welcomed their Muslim persecutors into their high-tech nations which had been based on Christianity throughout the centuries.  

In addition, the Muslims did fail to occupy Constantinople in 717 AD, but they finally conquered it in 1534 AD.  As a result, Russians decided to build a new city, far away from the Muslims.  The Russians called that city, the New Rome.  That city is MOSCOW ... "Москва."   It was named after the Moskva River.

Now, in the Year 1066, the Muslims invaded and conquered Toledo, SPAIN.  Then came the Battle of Manzikert, in 1071, when the Muslims once again attacked a Christian land and occupied it.  This was in Southeastern Türkiye.  

This triggered the need for some type of Crusade which was said to have begun in 1095 CE.  The reality is that the successful Crusades began in 1085, when Catholic forces liberated Toledo SPAIN from Muslim rule.  This is something that Barack Obama never told you, when he was perniciously damning Catholics.  The Muslims invaded & attacked the Catholic lands first ... for hundreds of years.

In the late 11th Century, the long history of Muslim Expansion was thought to be taking its course back toward Greece.  After all, the Muslims already successfully attacked Byzantine territories in Anatolia, in 634.  They also conquered Cypress in 649.  

Then, in 717, the Muslims placed Constantinople under siege.  Yet, they failed.  So, Greece ... aka Byzantium ... was still a target for the Muslims.  In as much, there was a correct reason for Byzantine Emperor Alexios I to ask Pope Urban II for help, even though the Greek bishops split from Rome in 1054.  That split is called the Great Schism.  Schism means "the scissoring."

The Vicious Irony today

The irony is in a Jewish mayor welcoming Somali Muslims who are taught that Allah commands Muslims to rise-up and kill all Jews everywhere ... including the Useful Idiot Mayor of Minneapolis.  

In fact, it was Somali gunmen who shot an Italian nun/nurse to death six days after Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, where he quoted a Byzantine emperor who mentioned that forcing religion upon a people at the point of a sword, as did the Muslims since 633 CE, was evil.   This murder occurred in the Year 2006, outside of a children's hospital.

That martyred nun, Sister Leonella Sgorbati, was beatified at the Vatican in 2018.  Her bodyguard was also killed in Mogadishu by Somali gunmen, in the same incident.  Sr. Leonella's Memorial Day ... aka Feast Day ... is September 17th.

Below:  Other instances of Deadly Muslim Aggression upon unarmed Catholics 

who were forced to betray their faith in Christ, under penalty of death.  

Those people chose death over betraying the Miraculous Nazarene who happened to have been born in Bethlehem.  By the way, Bethlehem means, "House of Bread" in Hebrew.

The Roman Catholic religious order that paid ransom to Muslims, for the release of Christian Captives, as far back as the 13th Century.

The Muslims took a lot of captives as a part of their looting.  Then came 1218, when a Roman Catholic religious order was founded in Barcelona Spain, solely to rescue Catholic captives.  It was known centuries later as the Order of Our Lady of Ransom, being that paying ransom, in order to liberate captive Catholics, was the principle technique of the religious order.  

At the time of its founding, that particular religious order was officially named the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.  It's members were-and-are the Mercedarians.

In Catholic religious orders, the members live by three vows, namely the vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience.  Well, the Mercedarians took a fourth vow ... that of offering one's self as a replacement hostage/captive, in order to obtain the freedom of an already existing hostage.  It was known as the "blood vow," because it included giving up your life, to free a hostage, if necessary.

Today, in 2025, that religious order still exists in 17 different nations, specifically in the Philippines, the United States, Spain, Italy, and in certain Latin American nations.  

The Fourth Vow

Now, the Mercedarian Fourth Vow has been revised.  In my personal interpretation of the modernized Fourth Vow, it's to basically speak out against social injustice, becoming subject to a number of types of RETALIATION which includes being killed for standing-up for what is right.  

The revised vow furthermore emphasizes coming to the assistance of those close to losing the Faith ... because of threats, harassment, discrimination, lying propaganda, social rejection, persecution, etc.  The revised vow is something similar to this, thereby making that religious order worth existing. 

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Part 5: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics & Others, since the 7th Century

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This Muslim aggression included:  ~Somalis dragging dead Americans down the streets of Mogadishu.  It also included the  ~September 11th, 2001 Airborne Terrorist Attacks in the American skies, as well as the  ~Mumbai India Massacres, in addition to the  ~Boston Marathon Sabotage and the ~12 murders of comic illustrators in Paris, on January 7, 2015, as if Muslims are allow to walk into anywhere they please, and start killing at will.   

The colored drawing above is posted pursuant to 17 USC 107;  the Fair Use Act.
It depicts the First Barbary War, when white people were hijacked from ships, by Muslims,
and then sold into slavery ... by Muslims.  This included American women being sold into sex slavery ... by and for Muslims, of course.

 ... to the shores of Tripoli

In the 1780s, as soon as America gained independence from England, Algerian Muslim pirates started boarding American ships, commandeering the ships,  stealing property on board, and kidnapping Christian sailors and passengers alike.  This was because these Barbary Corsairs knew that the American ships were no longer protected by the Imperial British Navy. 

At the time, America could only afford to attempt to resolve the ongoing assaults, by diplomacy.  This included paying "tributes" to Muslims.  

Then came the Thomas Jefferson presidency, when the US president stopped paying tribute to these Muslims. North African Muslim pirates, under Muslims lords, kept pirating American ships and taking American hostages, some of whom became sex slaves.  

This resulted in the US Marines being sent to Northern African ... in 1805 ... to liberate the kidnap victims and to subdue the power of the Kingdom of Tripoli.  All in all, at the very beginning of the United States, it was being attacked by traditional MUSLIM MILITARY AGGRESSION. 

In summary ...

...  the Muslim Religion ... aka Islam ... has been a Plague of Locusts upon Christendom, from the start.  The Muslim Religion is an anti-Christian religion, because it's "adherents" spent over 1,391 years trying to destroy Christianity in every way possible ... or trying to make Christians second class citizens who had to pay extortion to Muslims, in the JIZYA .   For the Muslims, it was a matter of attack, attack, and keep on attacking.  

Now, Barack Obama made Catholics look like the demons from Hell.  HOWEVER, no Roman Catholic group ever hi-jacked multiple airliners and flew them into the skyscrapers of a Muslim land.  No Roman Catholic team ever performed 12 mass-shooting attacks in a three-day period, in a large Indian city such as Mumbai.  And no Roman Catholic duo ever performed a bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Concerning this, here is a great contradiction:  In September of 2001, when two hijacked jets crashed into the NYC Trade Towers, how many people within them were Muslim?   That is to ask, when suicide bombers did their many bombings, how many Muslims got caught in the deadly explosions?

Roman Catholic military knight orders started as a response to already-existent attackers of Catholics.  Even though the Teutonic Knights were founded in Acre (Akko) ... which is 80 miles north of Jerusalem ... they were sent to protect people from Lithuanian pagan forces.  Then, after the Lithuanians converted to Catholicism, the Teutonic Knights were eventually disbanded.

Unarmed Missionaries were the ones who expanded Christendom, as in "the blood of the martyrs are the seeds of the Faith."  Saints Boniface, Odilia, and Ursula are example of true martyrs killed for their Faith in Christ.

It's a lie to claim that military forces were sent to expand Christendom.  MISSIONARIES were sent out to expand Christendom, and you cannot deny that the Catholic Church had a lot of unarmed martyrs who were spreading the Faith.  

Catholic military forces were sent to prevent Christendom from being invaded, conquered, and decimated.  Or else they were sent to win back invaded land that was occupied by anti-Catholics.

Becoming Catholic was and is a relatively long process that involves the Catechumenate.  No one instantly becomes a Catholic convert.  Ask today's Catholic converts.  

All in all, putting a sword to someone's neck does NOT result in the person becoming Catholic.  You have to prove that you understand the basic doctrines of the faith and the basic moral precepts of the Church.  You then have to show that you actually want to become Catholic.  That is known as "consent."  

Plus, in Catholicism there is excommunication.  Thus, there were some people whom the church didn't want to join them, until such people reformed for the better.  Thus, it's a lie to claim that Catholics were shoving the Faith down people's throats, at the point of swords.  That's the Muslim Religion that does that.  

Catholics are taught that it's a sin to hijack an airliner and then fly it into a skyscraper filled with unarmed office workers.  Catholics are also taught that it's a sin to explode a bomb at the Boston Marathon.

Catholics are furthermore taught that it's a mortal sin to shoot at Jews who are celebrating Hanukkah in Australia. 

There was a time when becoming a citizen of the United States was a long process.  Well, converting to Catholicism is simply becoming a citizen of the Kingdom of God which "is at hand."  And to those who do NOT believe in Catholicism in any capacity, you have to explain away all of those miracles in the Catholic Church.  

This included the October 13th, 1917 Fatima Portugal Miracle of the Sun, when a rain-drenched region suddenly dried, after people saw the Sun perform a colorful and even slightly terrifying phenomenon.

The fact that everything outdoors dried instantly proves that there was no "mass hallucination" transpiring.  Newspaper reporters went, with the intention to prove a fraud amongst three shepherd children, and then to mock Catholicism.  They ended up reporting the miraculous event with respect.

Oh, and then there is the matter of bleeding hosts, a couple of which were scientifically analyzed, at least in at least three specific hosts which were consecrated at Catholic masses, in the modern era.  The blood on the hosts were found to be AB blood.  

The Shroud of Turin has AB blood on it, too.  However, the rh factor on the shroud was not reported.  This means that the reports didn't mention if the Shroud of Turin blood were AB Positive or AB Negative.

Note:  There are a lot of officially recognized miraculous hosts.  Not merely four.   Such host phenomena date back to 750 CE, with some of the hosts on display, usually in a shrine setting or other consecrated structure.  More than one had cardiac muscle, and more than one had AB blood, presumably AB positive blood.

Jesus said, if you don't believe my words, then believe my works.  These miraculous phenomena are regarded as Christ's works which actually give a message..

And then there is the miraculous Tilma of Guadalupe which contains an image of the Virgin Mary.  The miracles occurred on December 12, 1531, and it was witnessed by a bishop.  

Science found that it has zero brush strokes on it and that it was not sketched in any way.  It looks as new as it was in 1531.  So look up the whole story, before flaring off more atheistic diatribes ... or anti-Catholic rants, etc.

Before 1531, there were about 10,000 native converts in Mexico.  In the immediate years after the 1531 miracle, there came to be 6 to 8 million natives converting to the "Faith of Peter & Paul," and getting baptized in the Catholic Church.

Keep in mind that it was in 1520 to 1521 when Small Pox in Mexico reached the pandemic stage.  Our Lady made her presence known to the traumatized Mexicans ten years later.  

This account began, when the bishop in Mexico city wrote a super important letter to the King of Spain, mentioning the Conquistadors' abuse of the natives.  In prayer, the bishop asked to be given a sign that the king actually read the letter.  The bishop asked for roses to be the sign.  

Well, when Juan Diego returned to the bishop, he had roses in his tilma.  He opened up the tilma, so that the roses could fall on the bishop's desk.  Then the bishop saw the miraculous image.  

Roses didn't bloom in December in Mexico City, during the Mini Ice Age which lasted from 1284 CE to 1840 CE.  The bishop received his message in 1531.   December 12th is still honored ... and/or celebrated ... in Latin America.

Part 1 of this five part series is located via the link below:

 

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war.html

 

Concurrence

Below is the video documentary on Whites having been slaves.  Such a thing is not too difficult to believe.  After all, the history of mankind ... the sad history of mankind ... has mostly been WAR & SLAVERY, in addition to the fight to survive the elements.  In as much, the most accomplished slave traders & owners in history were allegedly none other than . . . the Ottomans . . . allegedly, of course.

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Herodian Dynasty = Whore of Babylon. Ancient Rome = Beast.

Throughout the centuries, one of the greatest acts of defamation announced by the artificially contrived "Church of England" and the Baptist Heresy was that of endlessly accusing the only Church ever founded by Christ of being "the Whore of Babylon."   And of course, the actual whore was the Herodian Dynasty that only remained in political power, because it leeched off of Rome's military power.  

In brief review, Antipater the Udumaean (an Edomite convert)  started the Herodian Dynasty in 47 BCE, by being appointed Procurator of Judea, by Julius Caesar.  Eventually came Herod the Great and his killing of infants the age of the newly born King of the Jews.  This was followed by yet another Herod; the one who killed John the Baptist and who later mocked the Christ whom his dad tried to kill decades prior.

St. John the Apostle wrote the Book of Revelation, where within is the mention of the Whore of Babylon.  Before becoming a writer of Sacred Script, John was a close apostle of Christ, present at the Last Supper, at the Crucifixion, and in the Cenacle, the night after Christ's Resurrection.  Even before this, John was a devoted disciple of his first rabbi, Saint John the Baptist.  

Now, it was Herod the Great's son, Herod Antipas, who had John the Baptist imprisoned and later put to death.  John the Baptist was the one who spoke-out against Herod's adulterous relationship with Herodias.  So, Herodias manipulated her daughter into requesting John the Baptist's head on a platter, being that the young lady was offered any gift she wanted by Herod, during a drunken interlude, after the young lady danced for him.

Needless to say, John the Apostle took the death of John the Baptist personally.  Then a vision coming from outside of his deposition and thoughts was shown to him.  He would state the scene which included a whore riding a beast in a drunken state.

Now, what caused him to know that she was a whore?  None the less, the drunken state is what caused John the Baptist to die, and John perceived the drunken state in the woman he knew to be a whore.

John saw the blasphemous writing on the scarlet beast.  He also saw the cup the whore was holding in the vision.  He saw blood in the cup.  But, he felt the drunken state, as if feeling the martyrdom of his first rabbi at point blank range.  To follow would be the death of numerous martyrs, at the hands of pagan Rome.  

The Holy Innocents were perceived as the first martyrs of Christ, and the next martyr would be John the Baptist.  Both sets of martyrs were killed by a Herod.  Then Rome took over the task of killing Christians, but only from time to time.

Incidentally, in Roman signification, scarlet referred to high ranked military.  Thus, the Herods were riding on the back of a military that could effectively destroy them, their reign, and their territory's infrastructure.  They were riding the very beast who was going kill them off as effectively as it put them into power.

The Herodian Tetrarchy rode on the back of Rome, being that Herod Antipas conquered Jerusalem in 37 CE, with the help of Rome's military.  Now, historians mark the end of the Herodian Tetrarchy as 44 CE.  Yet,  Rome still needed a puppet dictator (a client king), for the sake of commerce & tax revenue.  

At that time, most of the commerce profits were now going to the Jewish elites.  So, Emperor Claudius assigned Agrippa II as the king of Israel in 48 CE.  The Herodian Tetrarchy was only suspended for four years, Rome got itself another "client king" soon enough.  Rome continued to be the Herods' pimp.

Pro-Roman Agrippa II would then flee from Israel at the start of the Jewish Revolt of 66 CE.  At the start of that revolt, 6,000 Syrian soldiers of a Roman legion were massacred by Jewish zealots.  Agrippa II simply detached himself from the Herodian legacy.  

Rome would perform the destroying of Israel as a duty to Rome, being that the zealots constituted the army during the revolt, and they indiscriminately killed Romans, thereby showing themselves to have no rules of war and no convention of civility.

In 66 CE, Gessius Flores was procurator and crazy Nero was an absentee emperor in Greece, shortly after a failed coup d'etat attempt was made upon him.  Herod Agrippa II had a new job, in present-day Syria.  Yet, the Jews did not have the concept of taking Roman prisoners of war.  They only had the concept of massacre.  So, Vespasian was sent to Israel with his son, Titus, by Nero's temporary substitute.  The following year, Rome regained control of Israel.  Then, in 69 CE, Vespasian became emperor.  He then had his son finish the job on Israel.

Rome, like the beast it was, ended up devouring the Herodian legacy.  This began with the Siege of Jerusalem, in 70 CE.  The result was the destruction of the second temple, the destruction of the rest of Jerusalem, and the killing of numerous Jews.   

Meanwhile, Herod Agrippa II was a "client king" in a landmass that would be given to Syria upon his death.  So, even that part of the Herodian Dynasty was going to be eaten by Rome.  All in all, by the Year 100 the Herodians would all be history.  A sovereign Israel was also history and would remain as such until 1948 CE.

In 1948, killing more immoral than that of the zealots occurred.  Young Jewish men would dress-up as elderly women and plant bombs in British places of business in places such as Jerusalem, indiscriminately killing unarmed civilians.  

That which Hitler's brown shirts did to the Jews the Jews started to do to the British.  And it was the BRITISH who ended up freeing the Jews from Hitler in the first place ... with the help of the Yankees, the French underground, the Dutch underground, the Canadian Rangers, and the Norwegian attack teams, along with a South American spy or two.  One of those Jewish terrorists became prime minister of Israel, in the 1970s.

Take note that the Book of Revelation was written a couple decades AFTER the destruction of the Temple and all of Jerusalem.  From the 17th Chapter of the Book of Revelation comes the following:

  ¹⁶ "The beast and the ten horns that you saw  (ROME)  will hate the prostitute  (The Herodian Tetrarchy).  They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.  (The Romans, under future emperor Titus, in 70 CE).   

¹⁷ For God has put it into their hearts  (the Herodian elitists)  to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast  (to Rome)  their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled.   (The prophetic words of the destruction of Jerusalem in Luke 19:42.)   

¹⁸ The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”  

(Jerusalem, of course, ruling in the spiritual sense, as opposed to the political one.  Jerusalem was much older than was Rome and therefore had much more influence on the outcome of human history.)

 

In summary, the Book of Revelation is a teaching that God is changeless, and because of this, history will repeat itself.  That which happened to Jerusalem in 70 CE will happen in the future to whoever holds the mission from God that Jerusalem once held, but which was stolen from Jerusalem by the Herod kings who were set on ignoring & dismissing that mission.  

It will happen at the hands of whoever holds the power that Ancient pagan Rome used to hold --- the power of the beast.   And remember, that power originally came from Babylon.

In the 20th Century, the new beast was assumed to have been the Soviet Union, after a brief stint of Nazi German tyranny.  In the 19th Century, it was assumed to have been the Napoleonic Dynasty.  

Before this were horrifying menaces, including the Mongols, Tatars, pagan Lithuanians, and Huns.  But, they weren't considered the armies of the Antichrist, because you first have to know of the existence of Christ, into order to be a undoer of Christ.  Nero, for example, knew of the existence of Christians.  He was an undoer of Christ's work. 

The Roman Mail Route

Concerning another part of the Apocalypse, there is no reasonable doubt to its meaning:  That one is the 7 letters to the seven churches.  Those churches coincided with the Roman mail route.  Thus, the Roman mail route was used to symbolize the route of time.  In as much, those seven churches were the seven eras of Christianity.  Six were yet to come.  

The first era was yet to be finished.  It would be followed by the Inclusive Era, where Christianity was going to be the common trend.  Then would come the Rural Era which started during the Justinian Mini Ice Age and which was saved by Ireland.  

Next would come the Scholastic Era of Aquinas and the such, followed by the Trenton Era (as in Council of Trent).  That era still hasn't ended.  

It will be followed by the Philadelphia Era, meaning the Era of Brotherly Charity.  This will be the Era of the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  

Then will come the era which will be met with the End of the World and the Second coming of Christ.  That end is a few centuries away ... not a millennia away.

Now, Sacred Script only mentions that the exact date of the world's end is in God the Father's mind, exclusively.  Yet, the same Sacred Script mentions to "watch for the signs of the times."  Well, a well-informed person can deduce a general time span.  In as much . . .

. . . the next thing to come, after massive upheaval, is the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  

Sodano, Bertone, and the child molester protector Ratzinger lied to the world in June of 2000, by stating that this triumph already came when we were all asleep.  The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart has not yet occurred.  When it does, no news agency is going to need to tell it to anyone.  

Everyone will know of a true new era of worldwide peace, accompanied by really heart-touching people --- an era free of people as vengeful as was Adolph Hitler, Robespierre, Genghis Khan, and the Hannibal Barca who was filled with the hatred of ten men in his soul.

Also remember that Paul expressly wrote to "not despise prophecy, my brethren."  Well, one of those incorruptible Catholic saints prophesied the Conversion of the Muslims in such a way that their devotion will put the devotion of the Church of the past to shame.  Yes, a Dominican saint whose body turned out to be incorruptible prophesied that the Muslims will convert to Catholicism and make the church of the past look like the minor leagues --- like the junior varsity.   

If you detest this prophecy, then take it up with the saint who made it; Louis of Montfort.  He is very much capable of hearing your thoughts and even your emotions from Heaven.  None the less, that widespread conversion is something else yet to come, before the Second Coming of Christ.

However, concerning prophecy & this particular generation, the one certainty is that the Great Apostasy prophesied by Paul (to the Thessalonians) will begin at the very top of the true church of Christ --- not in the fake churches that were formed in 1521 & 1534 --- and definitely not in the knock-off churches of business suit clad preachers that were seen on TV in the 20th Century.  

The Great Apostasy will occur in the only church every founded by Christ 2,000 or so years ago --- the one that was established while Peter & Paul were still alive.

The Beast Coming out of the Sea was actually a fleet landing ashore, in Israel

When you read of a "beast coming out of the sea,"  it doesn't mean a beast is rising out of the ocean.  It refers to an enemy fleet coming ashore, onto Israelite territory, after a long sea voyage.  Needless to say, Rome had ships, and Rome was "the beast."  Do the math here.  

The Two-horned Beast Rising from the Earth

It was the devout Christians who were literally under the earth, in the catacombs.  And then, when the church rose from the catacombs, on to the city streets, the hierarchy, in places, started to become corrupted.  Thus came John's image of the two-horned beast rising out of the Earth (Rev. 13:1).  It referred to the corruption that would occur after the permanent (not temporary) legalization of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire - - - after an era of non-corrupt clergyman conducting liturgical rites in the catacombs.

Incidentally, a Jewish priest wore a headband comprised of two horns, in his rituals.  Thus came John's vision of a two-horned beast.  Concerning this, the ancient Jewish religion WAS an animal sacrifice religion.  This was of the Order of Aaron.  Christ was said to be a priest according to the Order of Melchizedek, a priest who offered sacrifices of produce from the grain fields; not the sacrifices of animals.  None the less, it was a high priest who sentenced Christ to death.

Even at that, Christ's priesthood came from his own divinity.  He was already a priest.  He didn't have to be ordained by anybody.  Anyone after Christ needed to be ordained in a lineage of ordination which traces back to the original apostles.  Where there is no apostolic succession, there is no priesthood.  Even Paul was ordained in the apostolic line.

All in all, the Apocalypse is NOT all that mysterious.  It was heavily coded, to spare the text from being burnt in a pagan Roman incinerator.  It was heavily impacted, in that it spoke of the end.  

Any end can be traumatic.  In as much, it is quite assured that the end of your personal world will come much sooner than the end of THE world.  So, don't waste your time on Bible Belters who are endlessly telling you that the end is near.  There will be no such thing as the Great Rapture.  Much has yet to occur, for the end of THE world to happen.  

Oh, and concerning the annoying claim that the Roman Catholic pope is the Antichrist:  

Sacred Script states that only one more Antichrist is yet to come.  Now, there have thus far been 267 popes.  This means that at least 266 popes were NOT the Antichrist.  Moreover, it was theorized that the final AntiChrist already did come, in the person of Diocletian ... or Domitian.  

Being that it will take too much writing space to explain that pertinent Roman emperors who persecuted the Catholic Church with the intent to annihilate it, you can look-up the emperors yourself, assuming you are living in a free-enough society that doesn't ban education.  So, we go to the next step:

Amongst the first Christian churches on Planet Earth are the previously mentioned Roman Catacomb chapels.  This means that Christianity was long-since in the making in Rome, for centuries.  Thus, the church was NOT a sudden creation of pagan Rome, especially in light of the number of Christians of the Church of Rome who died at the hands of pagan Romans.

Even at that, there were times during the reign of the Caesars when Christianity was publicly legal.  It's just that suddenly, from time to time, Christianity was outlawed.  But of course, you are dealing with unstable dictators when you are dealing with the Caesars of ancient Rome.  They weren't as stubbornly consistent as were the deadly dictators of the 20th Century.  

Even at that, the 20th Century dictators appeared to be inconsistently unstable, only because they kept breaking promises & violating treaties that they never intended to observe, in the first place.  And remember, a treaty is law.  When you sign one, you are bound by law.  Dictators are lawless.  A dictator's signature is worthless.