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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

144: A Legend In His Own Mind

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

He was destined for greatness.  No one knew it but him.

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0:00.0

Holly and Cheneyce are prepping for a big weekend away and it needs to go exactly to plan

0:05.5

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0:16.8

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0:22.6

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0:37.8

In his prison cell, the disgraced tax collector awakens from a dream.

0:42.8

The same dream that haunted him for nearly 20 years. In the dream he's on horseback,

0:48.7

returning from a great battle. Weary and wounded, he's a scarecrow of a man,

0:54.4

riding towards home as a fair maiden rushes to greet him, and his grateful countryman

0:59.5

gather in the streets to shower him with glory and chant his name, the name of a conquering hero.

1:07.6

The dream first came to him when he was a young scholar long before he was falsely accused of

1:13.4

mishandling the crown's money and thrown into the king's jail. Back then, the dream had felt like

1:20.4

a divine prophecy, a sneak peak at the man God wished him to become. So vivid was his dream,

1:27.6

so certain the feeling of providence that accompanied it, that the young scholar had awakened from it

1:33.3

and immediately joined the army, eager to find a glorious quest so that he might fulfill his destiny.

1:41.4

He didn't have to look far. The Ottomans were raising hell in Europe, and the Pope had called upon

1:46.4

the faithful to vanquish the infidel once and for all, a heavenly cause if there ever was one.

1:52.7

So the young scholar swore an oath to his king and prepared to march into hell,

1:58.1

which is precisely where he found himself a few weeks later, specifically in the Gulf of Petrus,

2:05.5

where the Battle of Lopanto was about to commence. Lopanto was the last major naval engagement to

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