Lepanto Festival

Every October, Our Lady of Victory celebrates its namesake feast - the Feast of Our Lady of Victory (also called Our Lady of the Rosary) on October 7th. This great feast celebrates the decisive naval victory of the Christian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. This miraculous victory was attributed by Christians then and now to Pope St. Pius V’s invitation to all Christians to pray the rosary for the success of the Christian forces.

In honor of this great feast, OLV hosts an annual outdoor festival for faculty, staff, students, families and the broader OLV community. We kick off the evening with a student-led rosary followed by a rollicking celebration involving food trucks, a chili cook-off, a dunk tank, a pie-eating contest, outdoor races and games and - in true OLV fashion - dancing under the stars.