Tag: Antonio Primaldo
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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…