Lepanto Newsletter December 1, 2025 Vol.1.1

Written By Francis .

We continue to make progress on development with the goal of bringing Lepanto to full feature film fruition. Most recently we have arranged for the leading Catholic screenplay writer to come on board as a special consultant. This will greatly enhance our efforts to polish our screenplay for production.

In the meantime, we would like to share a similar story of amazingly Providential and incredibly pivotal Naval history. It’s the story of the USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier known as the BIG E) and it took place 370 years after the Battle of Lepanto. The BIG E was the single most powerful surface vessel in the entire US arsenal.

She set sail from her home port of Pearl Harbor on November 28th, 1941, with a full complement of 100 fighter / bomber aircraft. She was under the command of Admiral William (“Bull”) Halsey. Her destination was Wake Island, over 2,200 miles away in the westerly Pacific. When her assignment (bringing aircraft and other reinforcements to Wake) was completed she set sail to return to Pearl Harbor. Her arrival back at Pearl was scheduled for December 6th.

As fate would have it, the Enterprise and her armada of escort vessels encountered a storm with heavy seas such that she was delayed by more than a day. By the time she sailed back into port at Pearl, the naval and air bases of the forward Pacific presence of the US military arsenal had been decimated. She arrived at approximately 9 pm to a tremendous burning fire of destruction blazing throughout the base.

NOT COINCIDENTALLY on the US East Coast and throughout Europe it was already December 8th … The Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The BIG E would go on to fight another day. In fact she was instrumental in the ultimate destruction of Japanese naval forces throughout the second World War.

Her namesake, CVN 80 (the most technologically advanced nuclear aircraft carrier in the world) is presently under construction, preparing to continue her namesake’s legacy as an awesome forward defense force.

Yours sincerely,

Francis

Francis .