and Child of Lepanto was discovered The statue of the Madonna and Child that was on board the royal galley commanded by Don John of Austria, half-brother of King Philip II of Spain, during the Battle of Lepanto [...] the Mother of God, Don John of Austria donated it upon his death in 1578 to the Brotherhood of the Galleys in the Church of St John Lateran Port of Santa María in Cádiz. In 1854 the statue was transferred

the Gulf of Lepanto, at the exit of the Straits of Corinth. It involved 213 Spanish and Venetian galleys and some 300 Turkish vessels. About 100,000 men fought on each side. The Christian fleet won a complete