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The Power, Value and Holiness of the Rosary

A Revelation of our Blessed Lady to  Blessed Alan de la Roche

THROUGH THE ROSARY, hardened sinners of both sexes became converted and started to lead a holy
life, bemoaning their past sins with genuine tears of contrition. Even children performed
unbelievable penances; devotion to my Son and to me spread so thoroughly that it almost seemed as
though angels were living on earth. The Faith was gaining, and many Catholics longed to shed their
blood for it and fight against the heretics. Thus, through the sermons of my very dear Dominic
and through the power of the Rosary, the heretics' lands were all brought under the Church. People
used to give munificent alms; hospitals and churches were built. People led moral and
law abiding lives and worked wonders for the glory of God. Holiness and unworldliness flourished;
the clergy were exemplary, princes were just, people lived at peace with each other and justice
and equity reigned in the guilds and in the homes.
Here is an even more impressive thing: workmen did not take up their tools until they had said my
Psalter and they never went to sleep at night without having prayed to me on their knees. If they
happened to remember that they had not paid me this tribute they would get up even in the middle of
the night and then would salute me with great respect and remorse.
The Rosary became so widespread and so well known that people who were devoted to it were always
considered by others as obviously being Confraternity members. If a man lived openly in sin. or
blasphemed. it was quite the usual thing to say:
"'this man cannot possibly be a brother of Saint Dominic. I must not fail to mention the signs
and wonders that I have wrought in different lands through the Holy Rosary: I have stopped
pestilences and put an end to horrible wars as well as to bloody crimes and through my Rosary
people have found the courage to flee temptation.