144: A Legend In His Own Mind
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 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 |
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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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