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should have destroyed it long before this; and we would have seen to it that all the Orders in the
Church fell into error and disorder.
''Now that we are forced to speak we must also tell you this: nobody who perseveres in saying the
Rosary will be damned, because she obtains for her servants the grace of true contrition for their
sins and by means of this they obtain God's forgiveness and mercy.
Then Saint Dominic had them all say the Rosary very slowly
and with great devotion, and a wonderful thing happened: at each Hail Mary that he and the people
said together a large group of devils issued forth from the wretched mans body
under the guise of red hot coals.
When the devils had all been expelled and the heretic was
at last entirely free of them, Our Lady (who was still invisible)
gave her blessing to the assembled company, and they were filled with joy because of this.
A large number of heretics were converted because of this miracle and joined the Confraternity of
the Most Holy Rosary.

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Simon de Montfort,
Alan de Lanvallay and Othere

IT IS ALMOST impossible to do real credit to the victories that Count Simon de Montfort won against
the Albigensians under the patronage of Our Lady of the Rosary. These victories are so famous that
the world has never seen anything to match them. One day he defeated ten thousand heretics. with a
force of five hundred men and on another occasion he overcame three thousand with only thirty men.
Finally, with eight hundred horsemen and one thousand infantrymen he completely put to rout the
army of the King of Aragon which was a hundred thousand strong, and this with the loss on his side
of only one horseman and eight soldiers!
Our Lady also protected Alan de Lanvallay, a Breton Knight, from great perils. He too was
fighting for the Faith
against the Albigensians   One day when he found himself surrounded by enemies on all sides Our
Lady let fall one hundred and fifty rocks upon his enemies and he was delivered

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