Apostle Paul and Muslims at Malta

We read in the bible where, as a prisoner, Paul was shipwrecked on Malta and was bitten by a viper. (Acts 27 and 28)

Fast forward to 1565 Malta was bitten by another viper.  The Ottomans assembled a sailing fleet of thirty thousand jihadis to bombard Malta.  St. Elmo was reduced to rubble.  Thousand were slaughtered on both sides.  Before it was over St Paul's Bay was so littered with rotting corpses that few could stand the stench.  Had it not been for the arrival of war ships from Sicily all would have been lost.  It was finally demonstrated that the Muslims could be defeated.  This lead to the forming of the "Holy League" navy of nations lead by the Spanish Empire in 1571 to unite and eventually battle the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto where the viper's fangs were clipped.