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Eighth Rose 

Finally two other friars who had been sent to find out what had happened to the first two saw the
same lovely scene; and Our Lady did not go away until the whole Rosary had been said.
So the complete Rosary is a large crown of roses and the
Rosary of five decades is a little wreath of flowers or a small
crown of heavenly roses which we place on the heads of Jesus and Mary. The rose is the queen of
flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of all devotions and it is therefore the most important one.



Eighth Rose

Marvels of the Rosary

IT WOULD HARDLY be possible for me to put into words how much Our Lady thinks of the Holy Rosary
and of how she vastly prefers it to all other devotions. Neither can sufficiently express how
highly she rewards those who work to preach the devotion, to establish it and spread it, nor on the
other hand how: firmly she punishes those who work against it.
All during life, Saint Dominic had nothing more at heart
than to praise Our Lady, to preach her greatness and to inspire everybody to honor her by saying
her Rosary. As a reward he received countless graces from her; exercising her great power as Queen
of Heaven she cowned his labors with many miracles and prodigies. Almighty God always granted him
what he asked through Our Lady. The greatest honor of all was that she helped him crush the
Albigensian heresy and made him the
 founder and patriarch of a great religious order.
As for Blessed Alan de la Roche who restored the devotion to the Rosary, he received many
privileges from Our Lady; she graciously appeared to him several times to teach him how to work
out his salvation, to become a good priest and perfect religious, and how to pattern himself on
Our Lord.
He used to be horribly tempted and persecuted by devils, and then deep sadness; would fall upon him
and sometimes he used to be near to despair-but Our Lady always comforted
him by her sweet presence which banished the clouds of darkness from his soul.

She taught him how to say the Rosary, explaining its value and the fruits to be gained by it
and gave him a great and

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