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The Secret of the Rosary

He upset Satan's empire by founding the Church, but the former rallied his strength and wreaked
cruel violence on souls by the Albigensian heresy, by the hatred, dissensions and abominable vices
which he spread throughout the world in the XIth, XIIth and XIIIth centuries.
Only stringent measures could possibly cure such terrible
disorders and repel Satan's forces. The Blessed Virgin, Pro­
tectress of the Church, has given us a most powerful means for appeasing her Son's anger, uprooting
heresy and reforming
Christian morals, in the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. It has proved its worth for it has
brought back charity and frequent reception of the Sacraments which flourished in the first
golden centuries of the Church and it has reformed Christian morals.
Pope Leo X said in his Bull that this Confraternity had been
founded in honor of God and of the Blessed Virgin as a wall to hold back the evils that were going
to break upon the Church.
Gregory XIII said that the Rosary was given us from heaven as a means of appeasing God's anger and
of imploring Our Lady's intercession.
Jules III said that the Rosary was inspired by God in order that heaven might be more easily opened
to us through the
favors of Our Lady.
Paul III and Saint Pius V stated that the Rosary was given to the faithful in order that they might
have spiritual peace and consolation more easily. Surely everyone will want to join
a confraternity which was founded for such noble purposes.
Father Dominic, the Carthusian, who was deeply devoted
to the Holy Rosary, had this vision: Heaven was opened for him to see and the whole heavenly court
was assembled in magnificent array. He heard them sing the Rosary in an enchanting melody and
each decade was in honor of a mystery of the life, passion or glory of our Lord Jesus' Christ and of
His
Blessed Mother. Father Dominic noticed that whenever they said the sacred name of Mary they bowed
their heads and at the name of Jesus they genuflected and gave thanks to God for the great good
that He had wrought in heaven and on earth through the Holy Rosary, which the Confraternity members
say here on earth. He noticed too that they were praying for those who practice this devotion. He
also saw beautiful crowns without number which were made of gorgeous perfumed flowers held in
readiness for those who say the Holy Rosary devoutly. He learned that by every Rosary that they say
they

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