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The Salutation of the Rosary is Worthy of the Queen of Heaven

"'The Holy Angels in Heaven salute the most Blessed Virgin with the Hail Mary not audibly, but with
their angelic intelligences. For they are fully aware that through it reparation was made for the
fallen Angels' sin, God was made man and the world was renewed" (Blessed Alan).
One night when a woman Confraternity member had
retired, Our Lady appeared to her and said:
"My daughter, do not be afraid of me. I am your loving
Mother whom you praise so faithfully every day. Be stead­
fast and persevere; I want you to know that the Angelic Salutation gives me so much joy that no man
could ever really explain it."

(Guillaume Pepin, in Rosario aureo Sermon 47)

Saint Gertrude corroborated this in one of her visions; in her Revelations, Book IV, Chapter II,
we find this story:
It was the morning of the feast of the Annunciation and
the Hail Mary was of course being sung in Saint Gertrude's
monastery. During the singing she had a vision in which
three streams gushed forth from the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost and gently flowed into Mary's virginal heart.
The minute they reached her heart they bounded back to the
source from where they had come.
From this Saint Gertrude learned that the Blessed Trinity
has allowed Our Lady to be most powerful next to God the
Father, the wisest after God the Son, and the most loving
after God the Holy Ghost. She also learned that every time
the Angelic Salutation is said by the faithful the three mys­
terious streams surround Our Lady in a mighty, swirling cur­
rent and rush into her heart. After they have completely bathed her in happiness they gush
back into the bosom of
Almighty God. The saints and angels share in this abundance of joy as do the faithful on earth, who
say this prayer For

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