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nary Indulgence, it is not always necessary to go to confession and Holy Communion in order to gain
it. Such partial indulgences are many of those attached to the Rosary (either of five or of fifteen
decades) to processions, blessed Rosaries, etc.

Be sure not to neglect these indulgences. Flammin and a great number of other writers tell the
story of a young girl of noble station by the name of Alexandre, who had been miraculously
converted and enrolled by Saint Dominic in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary. After her
death she appeared to him and said that she bad been condemned to seven hundred years of Purgatory,
because of her own sins and those that she had made others commit by her worldly ways. So she
implored him to ease her pains by his prayers and to ask the Confraternity members to pray for the
same end. Saint Dominic did as she bad asked.
Two weeks later she appeared to him, more radiant than the sun, having been quickly delivered from
Purgatory through the prayers that the Confraternity members had said
for her She also told Saint Dominic that the Holy Souls in purgatory had given her a message to
beg him to go on preaching the Holy Rosary and to beg their relations to offer their Rosaries for
them, and that they would reward them abundantly when they came into their glory.

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Various Methods

SO AS TO MAKE the recitation of the Holy Rosary easier for you, here are several methods which will
help you to say it in a good and holy way, together the meditation on the Joyful, Sorrowful and
Glorious Mysteries of Jesus and Mary Choose whichever method pleases you and helps you the most:
you can make one up yourself, if you like, as several holy people have done before now.
METHODS OF SAYING THE MOST HOLY ROSARY SO AS TO DRAW UPON OUR SOULS THE GRACE OF THE
MYSTERIES OF THE LIFE, PASSION
AND GLORY OF JESUS AND MARY

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