Miracles Received through Praying the Holy Rosary
Saint Dominic Defeats the Albigensian Heresy with the Rosary
In the twelfth and thirteenth century France, there was a group of heretics known as the Albigensians. The Albigensians’ teachings encouraged suicide, many times by self-induced starvation, because they believed that the body was intrinsically evil and that the soul must be liberated from matter at all costs. Saint Dominic, born of noble lineage, received the Rosary from Our Lady in the year 1214. Our Lady gave Saint Dominic the Rosary as a weapon to combat the Albigensian heresy.
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary told Saint Dominic to "Pray my Psalter and teach it to your people. That prayer will never fail". Dominic was told that if he did as instructed the heresy would be dispelled from France. Eventually after widespread teachings on the rosary and the meditations on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, the heresy was defeated and the Church was strengthened.
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary told Saint Dominic to "Pray my Psalter and teach it to your people. That prayer will never fail". Dominic was told that if he did as instructed the heresy would be dispelled from France. Eventually after widespread teachings on the rosary and the meditations on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, the heresy was defeated and the Church was strengthened.
The Rosary Defeats Muslim Forces in The Battle of Lepanto – 1571
At the end of the Crusades, Catholic naval forces, in a battle with Muslim forces, were at a decided disadvantage in numbers and resources. Knowing the odds for victory were poor, St. Pope Pius V requested all of Europe to pray the rosary. While performing his duties in the Vatican miles away from battle, the good Pope is said to have suddenly stood up at the moment of victory, gone over to a window and exclaimed, "The Christian fleet is victorious!" while shedding tears of gratitude to God. Through the power of the rosary, the Catholic forces soundly defeated the Muslim Turks.
Jesuit Priests Praying the Rosary, Survive the Hiroshima Bomb – 1945
The Rosary Frees Austria from Communist Rule in 1955
For three years, Catholic Austria went under the tyrannical rule of communist Russia after World War II. A Franciscan priest named Father Petrus launched a rosary crusade and 70,000 people pledged to say the rosary daily for the intention of Austria becoming free from Russian rule. Although Austria was valuable to the Soviets because of its strategic location and rich resources, on May 13, 1955, the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, the atheistic Russian regime, in a completely unprecedented move, signed the agreement to leave Austria. Not one person was killed, and not even one shot was fired. Today, historians and Military strategists still cannot explain how or why the Russians pulled out of Austria. Those devoted to the rosary of Our Holy Mother know exactly the reason.
Praying the Rosary Saved Immaculée Ilibagiza from the Rwandan Genocide - 1994
Please Pray the Rosary for the Conversion of Sinners, for the Souls in Purgatory and for World Peace.
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