10 works, Today, August 14th, is St. Antonio Primaldo’s day, his story illustrated #226

St. Antonio Primaldo and his Companion Martyrs, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, were 813 inhabitants of the Salentine city of Otranto in southern Italy who were killed on 14 August 1480 when the city fell to an Ottoman force under Gedik Ahmed Pasha; an Albanian Ottoman statesman and admiral, who served as Grand Vizier and Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. According to a traditional account, the killings took place after the Otrantins refused to convert to Islam…

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