OUR LADY'S HOLY ROSARY
History
Monastic Tradition: Monks pray daily 150 Psalms
- Paternoster Psalter (150 Paternosters)
- Led to the Marian Psalter (150 Hail Mary's) developed by Cisterians
1208, Blessed Mother gave St Dominic Guzman the Rosary to fight the Albigensian heresy in France
Holy Rosary: A Meditation on the Life of Jesus:
- Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection
Battle of Muret 1213
- With only 1500 men, Catholics spent all night praying Rosary; next day, defeated 30,000 Albigensians and ended the heresy.
15th century, Jesus appeared to Blessed Alain de la Roche to reinstate the Rosary as a Meditative Prayer
- Received 15 Promises from the Blessed Mother
Battle of Lepanto October 7, 1571
- The Holy League, before their battle with Ottoman Turks who greatly outnumbered them with more men and ships, prayed the Holy Rosary for the Blessed Mother's intercession
- Miraculously, the Holy League destroyed the Ottoman fleet in Lepanto, halted their drive to Rome, and effectively saved the Catholic Church.
- The Blessed Mother was Honored as Our Lady of Victory
Lector proclaimed Our Lady of the Rosary
Our Lady of Fatima
- As the Lady of the Rosary, she appeared to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal (Francisco, Jacinta, Lucia) from May 13 - October 13, 1917.
The Message of Fatima:
Pray the Holy Rosary every day for world peace so "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph".
