le19 octobre AD 2005/AM 7514

Today is the Feast of St Peter of Alcantara, C.

His biography from The Catholic Encylopædia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11770c.htm

The Roman Martyrology for 19 Octobre:

http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart10/mart1019.htm

On this day:

AD 439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage (a Christian City) in North Africa.

AD 615 St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Pope.

AD 1448 The Ottoman Sultan Murat II defeats Hungarian General Janos Hunyadi at Kosovo, Serbia. An earlier jihad, but a familiar place.