"I have been chosen for the destruction of the enemies of the Faith."
— Pope Callixtus III

January 1, 1970

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Inscription on the medal commemorating the victory over the Ottomans in August 1457 at Mitylene, quoted in Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume II (1891), p. 438