GK Chesterton's Lepanto, with annotations: Part 5

St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
      Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.

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St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north: Saint Michael's Mount is an island monastery in Normandy, located about one kilometer (0.6 miles) off the country's northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The first monastic establishment dates from the 8th century. The archangel Michael appeared in 708 to the bishop of Avranches and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet.




St Michael's Mount is also small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.The earliest buildings, on the summit, date to the 12th century. Historically, St Michael's Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France. It was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.

Saint Michael is traditionally invoke by Christians to defend them in the day of battle, to be their safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil, whom he is to cast down into Hell together with all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls.

Christian killeth Christian/Christian dreadeth Christ/Christian hateth Mary
The sixteenth century saw a series of attacks upon the Church that Christ founded: the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. In addition to the attacks by the infidel Muslims from without, there were attacks by apostates and heretics from within. The latter are in 'official' history usually grouped under the misleading term 'Reformation'. The fruits of these internal attacks were a series of bloody wars and a distortion of true doctrine that had been handed down and believed through all Christendom for over 1500 years.