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The Secret of the Rosary

These freethinkers who cannot bear others to say the Rosary often fall into a really heretical
state of mind without even realizing it and some to hate the Rosary and its holy mysteries. To
have a loathing for confraternities is to fall away from God and true piety, for Our Lord Himself
has told us that He is always in the midst of those who are gathered together in His name. No good
Catholic should forget the many great indulgences which Holy Mother Church has granted to Con­
fraternities. Finally, to dissuade others from joining the Rosary Confraternity is to be an enemy
of souls because the Rosary is a sure means of curing oneself of sin and of embracing a
Christian life.
Saint Bonaventure said (in his Psalter) that whoever
neglected Our Lady would perish in his sins and would be damned: "He who neglects her will die in
his sins." If such is
.the penalty for neglecting her, what must be the punishment in store for those who actually turn
others away from their devotions!

Tenth Rose

Miracles

WHILE SAINT DOMINIC was preaching the Rosary in Carcassone, a heretic made fun of the miracles
and the fifteen mysteries of the Holy Rosary, and this prevented other heretics from being
converted. As a punishment God suffered fifteen thousand devils to enter the man's body.
His parents took him to Father Dominic to be delivered from the evil spirits. He started to pray
and begged everyone who was there to say the Rosary out loud with him, and at each Hail Mary
Our Lady drove one hundred devils out of
the heretic's body and they came out in the form of red hot coals.
After he had been delivered he abjured his former errors, was converted and joined the Rosary
Confraternity. Several of his associates did the same, having been greatly moved by his punishment
and by the power of the Rosary.
The learned Franciscan, Carthagena, as well as several other authors, says that an extraordinary
event took place in 1482: The Venerable James Sprenger and other religious of his order
were zealously working to reestablish devotion to the Holy

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