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The Secret of the Rosary

was about to sink, the Blessed Mother caused one hundred and fifty small hills to appear
miraculously above the water and by means of them they reached Brittany in safety.
He built a monastery at Dinan for the religious of St.
Dominic, in thanksgiving to Our Lady for all the miracles that she had worked on his behalf in
answer to his daily Rosary. Having become a religious himself he died a holy death at
Orleans.
Othere was also a Breton soldier, from Vaucouleurs, and he often put whole companies of heretics or
robbers to flight unaided, wearing his Rosary on his arm or carrying it on the hilt of his sword.
Once when he had beaten them his enemies
admitted that they had seen his sword gleam and that another time they had noticed a shield on his
arm which had pictures
of Our Lord and Our Lady and the saints upon it. This shield made him invisible and gave him the
strength to attack well Another time he defeated twenty thousand heretics with only ten companies
and without losing a single man. This so impressed the general of the heretics' army that he came
to see Othere afterwards, abjured his heresy and declared publicly that he had seen him surrounded
by flaming swords during the
battle.

Thirty-Fifth Rose

Cardinal Pierre

BLESSED ALAN says that a certain Cardinal Pierre, whose titular Church was that' of St.
Mary beyond the Tiber, was a great friend of Saint Dominic's and had learned from him a deep
devotion to the Most Holy Rosary. This resulted in his
 loving it so much that he never ceased singing its praises and encouraging everyone he met to
embrace it.
Eventually he was sent as Legate to the Holy Land to the Christians who were fighting the Saracens.
So successfully did he convince the Christian army of the power of the Rosary that they started
saying it one and all to storm heaven for help in a battle in which they knew they would be
pitifully out numbered. This resulted in victory for them. and three thousand Christians
triumphed over an enemy of one hundred thousand.
 
As we have seen, the devils have an overwhelming fear of

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