Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, pray for us

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.In 1208 our Lady appeared to St Dominic in the Church of Prouille, France, and gave him a chaplet of beads representing roses commending to him the devotion which had spread among the Faithful of saying Paters and Aves whilst meditating upon the life of Christ. -- romanchristendom.blogspot.com

Glorious Day! I give thanks for the rosary, for the graces and virtues it brings, the comfort at times of need. Pray the rosary, pray the rosary, pray the rosary. Make time in your day -- you will never be sorry that you prayed the rosary.


"This feast was instituted by Pope St. Pius V in thanksgiving for the great naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on this day in the year 1570, a favor due to the recitation of the Rosary. This victory saved Europe from being overrun by the forces of Islam."


"Pope Benedict XVI invites all families to pray the Rosary for the intentions of the Pope, the mission of the Church and peace. 'It is as if every year Our Lady invited us to rediscover the beauty of this prayer, so simple and profound.' The Rosary, a 'contemplative and Christocentric prayer, inseparable from the meditation of Sacred Scripture,' is 'the prayer of the Christian who advances in the pilgrimage of faith, in the following of Jesus, preceded by Mary,' said the Pontiff." -- catholicculture.org

Did you know:

• St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying IS- Pray the Rosary.
• St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome Italy on just the Hail Mary.
• St. John Vianney, patron of priest, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.
• "The rosary is the scourge of the devil" -- Pope Adrian VI
• "The rosary is a treasure of graces" -- Pope Paul V
• Padre Pio the stigmatic priest said: "The Rosary is THE WEAPON"
• Pope Leo XIII wrote 9 encyclicals on the rosary.
• Pope John XXIII spoke 38 times about our Lady and the Rosary. He prayed 15 decades daily.
• St. Louis Marie de Montfort wrote: "The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."

---catholic.org


And the winner of the St. Therese rosary is...

Julia.

I can't think of a more special person to receive it.


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