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The Secret of the Rosary

let us leave the body of this man without speaking further for the angels will answer your question
whenever you wish. After all. are we not liars? So why should you want to believe us? Please
don't torture us any more; have pity on us."
"Woe unto you wretched spirits, who do not deserve to be heard," Saint Dominic said, and kneeling
down he prayed to Our Lady:
"Oh most worthy Mother of Wisdom, I am praying for the people assembled here who have already
learned how to say the Angelic Salutation properly. Please, I beg of you, force your enemies to
proclaim the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this, here and now, before the multitude."
Saint Dominic had hardly finished this prayer when he saw the Blessed Virgin near at hand,
surrounded by a multitude of angels. She struck the possessed man with a golden rod that she held
and said: "Answer my servant Dominic at once." (Remember, the people neither saw nor heard Our
Lady, but
only Saint Dominic.) Then the devils started screaming:
"Oh you who are our enemy, our downfall and our destruc­
tion, why have you come from heaven just to torture us so
grievously? O Advocate of sinners, you who snatch them from the very jaws of hell, you who are the
very sure path to heaven.
must we, in spite of ourselves, tell the whole truth and confess
before everyone who it is who is the cause of our shame and our ruin? Oh woe unto us, princes of
darkness:
"Then listen  well, you Christians: the Mother of Jesus
Christ is all-powerful and she can save her servants from falling into hell. She is the Sun which
destroys the darkness of our wiles and subtlety. It is she who uncovers our hidden plots, breaks our
snares and makes our temptations useless and ineffectual
''We have to say, however reluctantly, that not a single soul who has really persevered in her
service has ever been damned with us; one single sigh that she offers to the Blessed Trinity
is worth far more than all the prayers, desires and aspirations of all the saints.
"We fear her more than all the other saints in heaven
together and we have no success with her faithful servants. Many Christians who call upon her when
they are at the hour of death and who really ought to be damned according to our ordinary standards
are saved by her intercession.
"Oh if only that Mary (it is thus in their fury that they called her) had not pitted her strength
against ours and had not upset our plans, we should have conquered the Church and

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