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| "Emperor" Napoleon |
Our Lady Help of Christians, commemorates the defeat of one of history's greatest generals (and most wicked men), Napoleon Bonaparte. Waterloo was a decisive battle in more than one sense. It definitively ended the series of wars that had convulsed Europe, and involved many other regions of the world, since the French Revolution of the early 1790s. It ushered in almost half a century of international peace in Europe; no further major conflict occurred until the Crimean War.
The word Waterloo has entered the English vocabulary as a slang term: one who has met with defeat (after a string of successes) is said to have "met his Waterloo".
In the end, his prisoner Pope Pius VII would prevail where Napoleonic France would surrender
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| Napoleon serving notice of imprisonment on Pope Pius VII, Scarpelli, Tancredi (1866-1937) |
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| May Our Lady intercedes against today's enemies of Christ |
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