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Josephine	Sunday, 8. October 2006, 00:30
Posts: 311 Group: Members Member #25 Joined: September 27, 2006	7th October - The Most Holy Rosary The Holy Rosary is a lovely instrument of prayer. By it we direct our minds and hearts to God as we move our mouths and our fingers while we pray. The rosary was given personally to St. Dominic by Our Blessed Lady in the year 1214, in Toulouse, in France. Saint Dominic was the first great apostle of the Holy Rosary. Our Lady appeared to Saint Dominic many times. Once she came with Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Cecilia as her companions. Mary came with the Divine Infant Jesus in her arms the day she gave Saint Dominic the Holy Rosary. Saint Dominic died in 1221, at the age of fifty-one. The last great apostle of the Holy Rosary was Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, who died in 1716 at the age of forty-three. The great Pope who promoted the cult of the Holy Rosary was Saint Pius V, who died in 1572. In the year 1571 he set up the feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7th. The Catholics won a great naval victory that day over the Turks at Lepanto, who were trying to crush them and blot out their Faith. Their protection was the Holy Rosary. Another great victory because of the Holy Rosary was in 1716, in Hungary, the year Saint Louis Marie died. Pope Gregory XIII, in 1573, Pope Clement XI, in 1716, and Pope Leo XIII, in 1888, all did much to make the feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7th more and more observed and reverenced in the liturgy of the Church. In a simple chaplet, the five decades of the rosary, the Holy Name of Jesus is invoked fifty-four times, and the Holy Name of Mary, one hundred and seven times. No Catholic should ever be without the rosary in his/her possession, night or day. The devil is afraid of these beads as they lie in our pockets or are held in our hands. From "Saints to Remember". Copyright 1961, by Saint Benedict Centre, Th Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Still River, Massachusetts. Josephine


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