中国强调宗教自主自办 教廷吁信众效忠罗马

choi

BBC Chinese, May 20, 2015.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chin ... na_vatican_religion

two consecutive paragraphs:

"这个星期日（24日）更是所谓的 '圣母进教之佑瞻礼'（Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians)。在这一天，世界各地的天主教徒会按照传统向玛利亚祈祷，要求协助，而在中国，一些天主教徒也有到上海佘山朝圣的传统。

"梵蒂冈电台在周三发表的报道说，教皇方济各呼吁信众在这个时期特别为中国的天主教徒祈祷。

Note: Pope's appeal for World Day of Prayer for Church in China. Vatican Radio, May 20, 2015.
en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/05/20/popes_appeal_for_world_day_of_prayer_for_church_in_china/1145347

choi

(2) For "Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians," See Mary Help of Christians. Catholic News Agency (CNA), undated.
www.catholicnewsagency.com/resou ... help-of-christians/

Note:
(a)
(i) Battle of Lepanto
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
(The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto)
(ii) Gulf of Corinth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Corinth
(a deep [entire] inlet [running east to west]; In medieval times, the gulf was known as the Gulf of Lepanto (the Italian form of Naupactus [which is Latin, Its present name in Greek, hence English, is Nafpaktos (meaning 'boatyard' in Greek) (Wikipedia)])

(b) "Near the end of the 17th century, Emperor Leopold I of Austria took refuge in the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Pasau, when 200,000 Ottoman Turks besieged the capital city of Vienna"
(i) Battle of Vienna
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
(Sept 11, 1683)
(ii) Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
(1640 – 1705; Holy Roman Emperor 1658-1705; born in Vienna; during the siege of Vienna “Leopold took refuge at Passau”)
(A) I believe CNA misspelt: Not Pasau, but Passau. Everywhere I look, in English and German, it is Passau.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passau
(Latin Batavia--The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe)
(B) German English dictionary
* Au (noun feminine) is “alternate form of Aue.”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Au
* Aue (noun feminine): “a flat, wooded meadow by a river"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aue
(iii) Holy Roman Empire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
(table: "No official capital [a]"--please read note a)

(c) “In 1809, Napoleon's men entered the Vatican, arrested Pius VII and brought him in chains to Grenoble, and eventually Fontainbleau. His imprisonment lasted five years.”
(i) Pope Pius VII
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VII
(1742-1923; reign 1800-1823; sections 2.2 Negotiations and exile, and 2.3 Relationship with Napoleon I)
(ii) Grenoble
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenoble
("renamed Gratianopolis ('city of Gratian' [name of a Roman emperor whose reign was 375 to 383]) in 381 (leading to Graignovol during the Middle Age and then Grenoble")
(iii) Fontainbleau
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontainebleau
(section 1 History for name origin)