Marco d'Aviano, holy and forgotten hero His Barbarossa is in theaters, and Renzo Martinelli has long been committed to the preparation of his next film: Marco d'Aviano . It should be a movie all the more spectacular of Barbarossa, because if this had to rebuild the twelfth-century Milan, Marco d'Aviano in Vienna will have to reconstruct the order of 600. To make the colossal film, then there should be the main scene, which should cover the siege of Vienna, which began July 12, 1683 with the arrival of the first Turkish vanguard in the suburbs of Vienna. The consistency of the army turkish, full, has been variously estimated at from 200,000 to 300,000 men, but is more likely to be around 140,000. Assuming this figure to be good, would still be twice the coalition forces Austrian, Swabian, Bavarian, Saxon, Franconian assommanti to 70,000 men, of whom 30,000, well trained, came from Poland alone, led by King John Sobieski. Preparations for battle were undertaken on the evening of September 11 the next day, Sunday, September 12, 1683, took place on what is remembered as the Battle of Vienna , a battle whose outcome would depend on the future course of European history . In the case of Ottoman victory, in fact, Europe sarebbe stata islamizzata di forza. E secondo il terribile progetto del gran visir Kara Mustafà, progetto che in Europa si credeva o si pensava di conoscere, questi aveva in mente di "espugnare Vienna e Praga, frantumare le forze di Luigi XIV sul Reno, e marciare su Roma per fare di San Pietro le scuderie del sultano".
Con un impiego di forze di quella proporzione, Vienna - assediata e parzialmente svuotata da suoi abitanti, datisi a precipitosa fuga nell'imminenza del pericolo - secondo quel progetto turco, sarebbe dovuta capitolare in pochi giorni. Invece resistette ad oltranza, dando così modo alla coalizione amica di organizzare gli aiuti. I viennesi sentivano che la posta in gioco era troppo grande: Vienna era considerata l'ultimo baluardo contro advanced irrepressible Islam, which had culminated in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) by the Ottoman Turks; company that ended the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire.
The director will also be able to represent the terror suffered by the people of Vienna during the terrible two months of the siege, "the ramparts were not fortified and equipped, the guns were scarce, while from the walls of the besieged Muslim could see the tents that stretched out of sight in the area. " The Terror of Vienna was also fueled by the stories of what happened 112 years earlier, in 1571, the island of Cyprus, taken from the assault of the Turks to the Venetians. It happened a terrifying fact of unprecedented cruelty and brutality, now downplayed and virtually ignored the story, a story which I refer to reading through Wikipedia, the siege of Famagusta on and the horrible murder of his Captain General Marcantonio Bragadin , as well as Governor of Cyprus (the fact is well described in the book by Christopher Catherwood, "The Folly of Churchill, the invention of Iraq." These, in detail, he described the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Turks who occupied the ' island, and the horrible end that was the subject of numerous stock Bragadin, went there with him in full regalia, as they went to a party, to sign the surrender and hand over the keys to the city. They were completely helpless, as a sign of peace). That fact should be borne in mind in future on film Martinelli Marco d'Aviano, to make viewers understand the reason for such a great fear of the Ottoman Turks. Famagusta, after 22 years of uninterrupted siege - perhaps the longest in history - had to capitulate to hardship and hunger, nor the residents they were able to count on external aid, or the mother's home in Venice, because it engaged in preparations for what would eventually be the battle, which has great influence on the subsequent course of history: the Battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571.
A Father Marco d'Aviano should be credited more per la vittoria delle forze cristiane su quelle islamiche nello scontro decisivo di Vienna; lo si può intuire anche leggendo la sua biografia, unita agli atti per il processo di canonizzazione ( biografia di padre Marco d'Aviano ) . Eppure, nelle enciclopedie, nei libri di storia delle scuole superiori, almeno quelli più retrodatati, Marco d'Aviano non viene nemmeno citato. Completamente trascurato. Ne è riprova il fatto che, chiedendo in giro chi sia Marco d'Aviano, pochi o nessuno saprà rispondere; dovrebbe essere almeno conosciuto in Polonia e in Austria, sua patria adottiva, e soprattutto a Vienna, dove è sepolto, vicino ai reali d'Austria. Una rivalutazione, una riscoperta del beato, da quelle parti, however, seems to have occurred only recently, first, there also seems to have been forgotten. In fact, when in 1883 "is solemnly celebrated the second anniversary of the liberation of Vienna, in speeches and in commemoration of the fact we do not even remember a certain Father Marco d'Aviano, who had been, see combination! - One of the causes determinants of the great victory which had saved Vienna, the empire, Europe. Given the time and place, you can not just say that it was a random silence. " And it was perhaps also for the veneration of which would likely benefit in Poland, Pope Wojtyla, the Polish pope, before he died, he wanted beatified, Sunday, April 27, 2003, closing the lungo processo di beatificazione e canonizzazione . Durato 300 anni, era iniziato nel 1703, dopo appena 4 anni dalla morte di padre Marco d'Aviano ( beatificazione di padre Marco d'Aviano ).
Marco d'Aviano, una vita da santo eroico, tutta spesa per la conservazione dell'indipendenza politica e religiosa dell'Europa dall'invadenza islamica turca ottomana. Santa, la prima parte della vita, anche per i miracoli documentati, che gli sono stati attribuiti; defatigante la seconda, per i numerosi viaggi - molto disagevoli per quell'epoca - compiuti per raggiungere le corti d'Europa, ove era molto richiesta la presenza di un frate già in odore di santità; santa ed eroica la terza ed ultima parte of life for its ubiquitous presence on the battlefield, from Vienna, Buda, Belgrade, to support and encourage the soldiers, urging them to fight heroically for the sake of Christianity, and with it Europe.