Yes a brave man but hardly compares with the manly courage of the 'Palestinian Martyrs' who blow themselves up in children's ice cream parlors in expectation of going to The Great Islamic Brothel in the Sky.

Comparisons are odious.

And note Iskander's cunning: He didn't just announce himself as still a Christian, thus to be martyred in no doubt the most unpleasant way imaginable. He bided his time, wise as a serpent, to sell his life as dearly as possible. Not the way of a conventional martyr or monk because he was a Christian Warrior. There is more than one path to holiness.

Pacifism is of the Devil. As if there aren't things worth defending, things worthy dying for, things worth killing for. St James the Moor Killer pray for us.

A wonderful article as usual from the Remnant. A subscription to this paper is as good a bargain as you will find given the countless stories and articles that are shared with us. Truly sad that it appears that there are no such warriors for Christ today but I take heart in knowing that Christ always raises up great warriors and saints to defend His and Mary's Holy names and honor. And as usual our Blessed Mother is always there to ensure a triumph just as she will ensure a triumph of her Immaculate Heart. It is only foolish men who believe they are smarter then or more powerful then Almighty God for he will not and can not ever be defeated. The world is littered with the bones and hell with the souls of those who though they could do so.
Please keep these wonderful stories coming as they are truly inspiring and uplifting.

God Bless

As an Albanian American i am proud of this and thank you for this article-outside of Albania we don't hear this story much.before the victory comes the sacrifice.

If we don't learn from the mistakes of our past, we are doomed to repeat them...

This is what must be done today in the Church.

Great article. We can learn the paths to success by studying the past and drawing parallels and similarities to our present situation, but sometimes the past eerily provides striking allegories. One such case is the movie 'The Mission', and its account of the events in mid 18th century Paraguay. The political and religious background to that tragedy are similar to the ongoing destruction of Europe.

In Croatia we call him Skenderbeg Gorska Ramija - a scourge to the Turks who mercilessly stole children from their parents and destroyed everything they encountered. Never been a cause for his canonisation?

Stunning, how much catholic history and heroism, we have been robbed of. Where are our modern day Iskanders? Thank you remnant awesome article.

Most Catholics are unaware of Don Juan and the battle of Lepanto where the Christian warriors saved Europe from the scourge of the ottoman Turks. Modern Catholics and Christians think that to be Christian means a constant submission and turning of the cheek to our attackers. To them our only weapon is the singing of John Lennon’s sappy“ all I am saying is give peace a chance” while the Moslems slaughter our fellow Christians in the Mid East .

Not just slaughter in the Middle East. Now that we are coming up to the first anniversary of the Manchester bombing in May 2017, look back in anger at the response immediately afterwards. Other reports indicated that many men of the city were not quite so touchie-feelie at having women and children massacred. But any vigorous action would of course be Islamophobic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...

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18:00 Vigil in front of Manchester Town Hall

The vigil is attended by thousands of people covering the wide range of ethnicity and religious groups which make up Manchester. Attendees hold banners and placards proclaiming "Love not Hate" and "We stand together". The Bishop of Manchester speaks for all faiths and poet Tony Walsh performs his poem about the city, This is the Place

"And we survive the future by never forgetting the past. We know exactly where we must go but in order to not lose our way we must never lose sight whence we’ve come or who we are. Thus, we must tell the old stories!"

That is the reason the Left has been telling us first to forget those heroes of the past and then to despise them. And the Left always does that claiming to be rooting out the bad from the past so the future can be better.