Coffee, Croissants and Christianity

Ad Orientem reminds us of September 11, 1683 when the Ottoman Empire's first assault, and best chance, to take Vienna failed. [The odd title to this is a backhanded reference to the tradition that the European taste for coffee is ascribed to the vast quantities of coffee left behind by the departing Turkish armies, and that croissants were initially baked to commemorate this victory of the Cross over the Islamic crescent.]