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else in the same gathering who prays better may make up for his deficiency. In this way those who
are strong up hold the weak, those who are fervent inspire the lukewarm, the rich enrich the
poor, the bad are counted as good. How can a measure of cockle sold? This can be done very easily
by mixing it up with four or five barrels of good wheat.
3. Somebody who says his Rosary alone only gains the merit of one Rosary, but if he says it
together with thirty other people he gains the merit of thirty Rosaries. This is the law of public
prayer How profitable, how advantageous this is!
4. Urban VIII, who was very pleased to see how devotion to the Holy Rosary had spread in Rome and
how it was being said in two groups or choirs, particularly at the convent of Santa Maria Sopra
Minerva, attached one hundred days' extra indulgence, toties quoties, whenever the Rosary was said
in two choirs. This was set out in his brief "Ad perpetuam rei memoriam," written in the year 1626.
So every time you say the Rosary in two groups you gain one hundred days' extra indulgence.
5. Public prayer is far more powerful than private prayer
to appease the anger of God and call down His Mercy and Holy Mother Church, guided by the Holy
Ghost,
has always advocated public prayer in times of public tragedy and suffering.

In his bull on the Rosary, Pope Gregory XIII says very clearly that we must believe (on pious faith)
that the public prayers and processions of members of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary were
largely responsible for the great victory over the Turkish navy at Lepanto which Almighty God
granted to Christians on the first Sunday of October, 1571.
When King Louis the Just, of blessed memory, was be­
sieging La Rochelle, where the revolutionary heretics had their stronghold, he wrote to his mother
to beg her to have public prayers offered for a victorious outcome. The Queen-Mother decided to
have the Rosary recited publicly in Paris in the Dominican Church of Faubourg Saint Honore and this
was done by the Archbishop of Paris. It was begun on May 20th, 1628.
Both the Queen Mother and the reigning Queen attended the recitation of the Rosary together with
the Duke of Orleans, Cardinal de La Rochefoucault and Cardinal de Berulle, as

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