October 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Note: This article is from Bob and Penny Lord's book "Victories of the Rosary"
We trace how prayer, especially the rosary, moves from last resort to first response and how Mary’s intercession frames courage in personal crisis and across history. Stories span a near-fatal car incident to Lepanto, Vienna, Sri Lanka, Austria, Brazil, the Philippines, and New Orleans.
• prayer as armor, not fallback
• Mary’s motherly protection and intercession
• angels and saints interwoven with Eucharistic life
• a near-crash testimony and discernment of grace
• historical victories linked to rosary processions
• Lepanto and Vienna as models of trusting leadership
• nonviolent power in Brazil and the Philippines
• Sri Lanka spared and Austria’s peaceful turn
• New Orleans’ Prompt Succor and the 1812 fire
• hope, surrender, and beginning with prayer
• invitation to join pilgrimages and explore resources
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hello family, welcome to Journeys of Faith
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Super Saints Podcast.
Brother Joseph Frialdin Hovenhere at your service.
Be sure to look at thedescription for special
information of interest to you.
And also there is more to thisarticle of Victories of the
Rosary.
All we can do now is pray whenall else fails, when there is
nothing left to do.
We pray a last ditch effort.
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We've tried everything else.
It's out of our control.
Now all that is left is to pray.
Instead, we should begin bypraying, recognizing that the
most powerful tool we have isprayer.
Saint Paul said, put on thearmor of God that you may be
able to stand against the wilesof the devil.
For our wrestling is not againstflesh and blood, but against the
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pursuit, the principalities andthe powers against the world
rulers of the present darkness,against the spiritual forces of
wickedness on high now, we arein the best of times, we are in
the worst of times.
Our battle is not with humans,as Saint Paul tells us, it is
truly a battle, possibly thefinal battle for our souls and
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those precious souls of ourfamilies.
What is the armor of God?
What better armor can you wearthan that of the Virgin Mary?
Who did you did you run to uh uhuh to run to when you were a
child?
Wasn't it to mama?
We need our mama.
I remember when I was a childand I would have a nightmare.
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Who did I run to?
My mother, and what did she say?
Did you pray before you fellasleep?
Each time I'd forgotten to pray,then when she sent me back to my
bed with, now say your prayersand you won't have any more bad
dreams.
I really didn't have too muchconfidence that it would work.
Although her reassuring wordsturned out to be prophecy, I
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never believed, but it alwaysworked.
Put on the armor of God, who waschosen by God to bring into the
world his son, to care for him,to parent him, to teach him, to
protect him, to love and cherishhim.
Was it not Mother Mary?
Did Jesus not perform his firstmiracle through the intercession
of the Blessed Mother?
As we journey with Jesus andMary in this book, we see how
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many times the mother of God andour mother interceded for us,
how many times she had to makethe decision for us at the cost
of her most precious son, andshe said yes.
If she did that, knowing her sonwould suffer, how much more
would she do now as we uh uh aswe turn to her, praying the
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rosary, the 150 roses we placeinto a bouquet for her.
The Lord and his mother, theangels and the saints have
always been interwoven.
When we wrote of the miracles ofthe Eucharist, we not only
learned more about the HolyEucharist, we discovered Mother
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Mary and her connection with theEucharist.
We encountered the saints, howthey lived and died for the
Eucharist.
We learned of the presence ofthe angels during the Mass.
And when we wrote of MotherMary, we became more fervently
aware of the Eucharist, thesaints and the angels.
When we wrote of the saints, wecould see the love they had for
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the Eucharist, how they allturned to Mother Mary, and how
many relied on the help of theangels.
We could see the work of theangels in Jesus and Mary's life
and in the lives of the saints.
The greats of our church turnedto the Lord, to his mother, to
the saints who had come beforethem, and to the angels.
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They knew they needed help, andthey were not past asking for
it.
Our popes all prayed the rosary.
It brought Pope Pius XII throughthe horrible Second World War.
Pope John XXIII prayed fifteendecades of the holy rosary every
day.
Our dear Pope John Paul II has arosary on him at all times.
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In his private chapel, as heprays for guidance and direction
from the Lord before the BlessedSacrament, you can bet he is
turning to the lady who savedhis life, May 13, 1981.
Beside his Bible and officebreviary, you are sure to find
the rosary.
When we interviewed theArchbishop of Zaragoza and
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filmed the uh the shrine of OurLady of Pilar, we were invited
into the Archbishop's uh Edoprivate chapel.
As with our beloved Pope JohnPaul II and Archbishop Fulton
Sheen, there beside his Bibleand his office was hanging a
rosary, the angels in therosary.
How many times, dear friends,have you been there to save us,
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even from ourselves?
Bob and I were still in thebusiness world.
On this particular day I wasreceiving some very upsetting
phone calls from customers andmanufacturers.
Time came for me to pick up mygrandson from high school.
He was not old enough to drive.
As I drove toward his school, Ibecame concerned that the anger
that had invaded my heart andsoul might spread to my boy.
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Seeking peace as only the Lordand his mother can provide, I
prayed the rosary for a halfhour, right up to the parking
lot of his school.
Rob, my grandson, got in the carand we then tried to get onto
the freeway.
I was in the a I was in the farright lane trying to try to
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deter trying to merge intotraffic.
I sorted I could barely squeezeinto the slow lane on my left.
Cars were barely moving.
Finally, having entered it, Itried to get into the faster
lanes to no avail.
I was blocked in.
First by the car in front, thenby the car in the rear, and then
by the car on the left who wouldnot move up and give me room to
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get in, no matter how much Iflashed my left turn signal.
Well this was not helping myformer attitude a bit.
Now I was really getting upset.
Suddenly I felt the car go outof control.
I tried to steer the wheel, itwas locked.
I shot out my right arm to blockmy grandson from going through
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the window.
I shouted, No Lord, not not him.
The car stopped dead.
My foot started to shake.
It was still on the brake whichhad not worked.
I had tried to push the brakepedal through the floorboard.
When my trembling had subsided,I got out of the car on my side.
On Rob's side, we were on theedge of a precipice about forty
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feet above the road below.
A highway patrolman came to ouraid.
He shook his head and said therewas no earthly reason why we
were not dead.
The tow truck arrived, and adriver used some expletives I
want I will not repeat, andshook his head as as he helped
us into the cab of his towtruck.
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Our car was helplessly raised inthe air behind us.
When we arrived at the gasstation, uh the mechanic dialed
the phone for me.
I burst into tears as I tried totell Bob what had happened.
I really didn't know myself.
The mechanic later told Bob ifRob and I were not standing
there in front of him, and ifthe highway policeman had not
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verified the story, he would nothave believed it.
He showed us how the axle hadsnapped in two, severing the
wheel from the rest of the car.
The wheel should have spun off.
We and the car should havecapsized and plunged into the
road and the cars below.
Instead, it became wedged in thefender and prevented the car
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from moving and turning over.
No one could explain it at thetime.
They had never seen anythinglike it.
It was as if someone had jammedthe wheel, bracing the car.
Was that an angel who had wedgedthe wheel beneath the car?
Were they angels who blocked mypath and locked me in the right
lane, not allowing us to go intothe fast lane?
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If we had been in the fast lane,we would have been going so
fast.
Not only would we have died, butwe would have taken other lives
with us.
There would definitely have beena pile up.
Maybe it was someone else'sangel who interceded.
Maybe it was the guardian angelof someone who would discover
the cure for cancer, or could itbe it was that God heard my cry
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and called upon our guardianangels to save my grandson?
Or was it the Queen of Angels towhom I had been praying the
rosary before I picked up mygrandson?
Had she summoned her army ofangels?
After all, our grandson hadalways loved her.
He had been in the Junior Legionof Mary when he was a little
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boy.
Did she have a special plan forhim?
We believed that all wars arereligious wars, all battles
between principalities andpowers, good fighting evil.
We fight with guns and bombsinstead of prayer.
Mothers, sons, and daughtersdie, families lose their
husbands, and fathers, wives andmothers, sisters and brothers,
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and the world is poorer for theloss of these precious loved
ones.
But it doesn't have to be thatway.
We have a more powerful form ofcombat on our knees.
These are just a few instanceswhere Mother Mary was asked for
her intervention through therosary, and she said, Yes, I
know that there are countlessmore examples of battles fought
and won through the rosary, butforgive us if we just cite these
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few.
The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, itwas the sixteenth century, and
the body of Christ was beingattacked from all sides.
On one side, poor innocentbelievers were falling to an
enemy from within the church.
The church in Europe would losesix million of her of her most
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precious faithful children toheresy.
As they did not know what washappening, they did not fight,
they did not pray for our MotherMary's intervention, and so they
were lost to us.
Praise God, they are now comingback home to their church, and
they are so very beautiful.
Could it be the many rosariessaid by their families and
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friends?
As this sneak attack was goingon, other enemies of the church
were attacking.
Turkish forces were overtakingmuch of Christian Europe.
As this wave of followers ofMuhammad invaded a country, they
not only took lives, they tooksouls.
The name of Christ was not heardin these lands for up to seven
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hundred years.
They knew that they would neverbe able to subjugate their
conquests unless they could takeaway all hope.
Had Satan told them of his mottoover the gates of hell, all you
who enter here abandon all hope.
But they were not victoriouswhere people prayed.
The Turkish fleet was attackingAustria.
The Austrian fleet under DonJuan was no match against the
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superior Turkish fleet.
It looked as if another countrywould be lost to Islam.
Her family is in danger.
They need her?
Mary?
To the rescue.
Pope Pius V sent out word to theforces of Christ to pray the
rosary.
A rosary crusade was waged onthe knees of the faithful, and
the battle was won.
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To the eyes of the world, theAustrian fleet was outnumbered,
but there was a powerful generalthat could not be seen by human
eyes.
It was Mary and her heavenlyarmy of angels.
Although the Austrian fleetappeared finished, they were
not.
They were joined by the angels,with Michael the Archangel in
front, swords of faith drawn,they were poised, just waiting
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for their queen's command.
The image of our lady ofGuadalupe was placed at the helm
of the ship, leading theAustrian fleet into battle to
victory.
Man's weapons could not defendtheir land, but roses in the
form of rosary beads movedJesus' heart, and through his
mother Mary, he did the rest.
Jesus, I trust in you.
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Battle of Vienna, September 11,1683.
We're in the 17th century andthe Turkish forces are still
forging ahead, hell bent onconquering and subjugating all
of Christian Europe.
We find ourselves in Vienna in1683.
The Emperor of Austria's forcesare exhausted and discouraged.
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They are badly outnumbered andweary from battle.
The Emperor, in a last ditcheffort, sends word to King John
Sobieski, sovereign of Poland,imploring his help.
Now this was not the first timethat King Sobieski faced
overwhelming odds in battle, butthe pendulum swung so
overpoweringly in the enemy'sfavor he did not know if this
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was to be his death rather thanhis victory.
As the Turkish invaders worsewere were converging on Vienna,
King John Sobieski turned to ourlady of Chestachoa.
Give us victory, my lady, grantus your help and salvation.
As for me, do whatever youchoose, I'll accept your will,
whether it's life or death.
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Suddenly a thought came to him.
Instead of honoring her, MotherMary, we have passed a lot of
responsibility on to her.
Seeking honor and glory forourselves, we've left the toil
to her.
But she has accepted it.
I don't know why she loves us,yet she does love us, even if we
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repay her with ingratitude anddisloyalty.
Give us victory, he prayed, andlet it be your victory alone.
He came before the people andasked them to join him in
publicly placing all their trustin our lady.
He knelt humbly before hisqueen, Mary Most Holy, and one
by one all the people knelt withhim.
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He began the apostles' creed,reminding them what they
believed and what so many beforethem had died for.
All the faithful prayed, onlynow the prayers took on
different meaning.
They were no longer just words,they were a battle hymn.
This is what we believe, and forthis we die, rather than deny
our Lord.
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As they continued the rosary,now reciting the Lord's prayer,
the words Thy will be done tookon new meaning.
They were truly commending theirlives to the Father,
self-abandonment, the trust ofchildren, of whom Jesus said,
The kingdom of heaven is theirs.
The king placed his troops inall of Vienna under the
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protection of our blessedmother, man, woman, and child,
peasant and noble, king andsoldier, all intoned with one
voice and one hope, thesupplication Mary help us and
help them she did.
Eighty thousand Christiantroops, with King John Sobieski
in front, defeated a fierceTurkish army consisting of two
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hundred fifty thousandbarbarians.
Now the Turkish army was knownfor their inhumane treatment of
soldiers and citizens.
The mere thought of themapproaching a village would
bring terror into the hearts ofmen as well as women.
What gave these people thecourage to fight and win?
The mother of God, Mary, help ofall Christians.
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What gave them the power and theammunition to use against the
enemy?
The Rosary Sri Lanka, Ceylon,nineteen forties.
World War II was raging andravaging nation after nation in
Europe and in Asia.
No country was safe from therelentless forging ahead,
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onslaught of the godless Naziand merciless Japanese forces.
World War I, the war to end allwars, had done no such thing.
Adolf Hitler, the man everyonethought was a harmless maniac,
no one to pay any attention to,was conquering most of Western
Europe.
The tiny nation of Japan, whichwas negotiating with our
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government right up to the sneakattack on Pearl Harbor, was
determined to rule rule the restof the world.
The atrocities that that ourservicemen shared after they
returned home gave us a clue tothe inhumane torture they
underwent in prison camps.
The rules governing thetreatment of prisoners that had
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been set up by the GenevaConvention before World War I
did not seem to apply to themembers of the Axis, as the Nazi
Japanese Alliance was called.
They acted as if they wereexempt from this governing body,
which was given the authority toensure humanitarian treatment to
all prisoners of war.
The Nuremberg trials brought outthe open defiance of the Nazis
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as witnesses came forth,testifying to the monstrous
genocide and barbaricexperimentation done on
civilians as well as prisonersof war.
The Japanese fleet was ominouslyapproaching the tiny nation of
Sri Lanka.
They were not equipped in thesmallest way to defend
themselves against the powerfulJapanese navy.
It seemed all was lost.
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Then the Bishop of Sri Lankaturned to Mother Mary.
He knew that her son Jesus wouldnot refuse her anything.
He promised the Lord he wouldbuild a cathedral in his
mother's honor if they weresaved from the enemy that was
almost upon them.
He placed his small island underthe protection of Mother Mary.
We can just see Mother Marycovering them with her mantle,
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blocking the people of Sri Lankaas they knelt praying the
rosary.
We can see her heavenly army ofangels spreading their wings,
swords drawn.
Did they blind the eyes of theinvading fleet so that they
could not see this the smallnation?
No one knows, but as resolutelyas they had been converging on
Sri Lanka, they turned aroundand did not attack the small
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island.
Why had they left them alone?
Ask Jesus and Mary when you seethem.
Austria, nineteen fifties.
Many of the Catholics in Germanywho refused to follow Hitler and
his henchmen suffered at thehands of the SS and the Gestapo.
Thousands were sent toconcentration camps in one
village where there is a shrineto Our Lady of Alt Otting, near
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Munich, on the eve of the end ofthe war, a priest and six
villagers were executed.
What was their crime?
They had gone to the Alliedforces to plead with them to not
harm the shrine to our lady.
For this, the Nazis brutallymurdered them.
The shadow of the hammer andsickle was covering more and
more of Eastern Europe.
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As Hitler scorched the earth,the Soviet troops watched and
waited.
They would have their fun.
Next in 1945, the Second WorldWar ended, but for too many that
did not mean peace.
Instead, a new enemy wasmarching.
God alone knew what horrors thatwould mean.
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The people of Austria waited andtrembled.
Their worst fears came to pass.
Russian troops occupied theirland.
A feeling of helplessness beganto spread through the villages.
The faithful began to turn tothe mother of God, their Maria.
They could not fight with man'sweapons.
They were plainly outnumbered.
They would fight on their knees.
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They prayed as if with one mindand heart, families, whole
villages, men and women alike,the young and the old, the rich
and the poor, all pleading forour lady's intervention.
They had been forced to hailHitler, Heil Hitler, and many of
their families had died ratherthan pay tribute to this pagan
who had set himself up as God.
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Now, as they prayed the fifteendecades of the Holy Rosary, they
hailed their mother and theirLord Jesus and their heavenly
family, heard them and camethrough.
The Russian troops just turnedaround and marched out of
Austria without any worldlyreasoning.
The Russian troops just pulledout.
There was uh there was noexplanation ever given why they
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just upped and left.
As quickly as they had appeared,they disappeared.
What what made them do it?
Could it be that the mother ofGod, their Maria, and her son
summoned their heavenly heavenlyarmy of angels, and with the
rosary as ammunition, theRussians, knowing they were
outnumbered, retreated?
Brazil, nineteen sixties.
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Brazil has always been a countryof the haves and the have nots.
The poor get poorer and the richget richer.
The many poor live in cardboardhouses, while the few rich live
in mansions.
Sanitary conditions arevirtually unknown for most of
the citizens of Brazil.
It is a nation of many OldTestament Lazaruses who would
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relish some scraps from thetables of their own rich man.
It is a natural breeding groundfor communism to infiltrate and
spread.
When your child's stomach isswollen from starvation and his
lips are parched from lack ofwater, when you see your family
dying before your eyes becausethere is no medical aid for
them, any promise of hope soundsbetter than what you have.
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It looked as if an even greatermonster would swallow up the
innocent the innocent soldiersuh of uh Brazil.
Um it was in it was the eve ofthe elections.
The Communist Party hadcampaigned well and hard.
It was a shoe-in.
Victory was certain.
The celebrations had alreadybegun in the Communist Party
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headquarters.
Did the poor not realize theywere uh, you know, like so many
of their Hispanic brothers andsisters, only trading one kind
of inequity uh for another, whowould tell them there was no
other voice they would listento?
The communists made it sound sogood.
They had promised them change,and any change was better than
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what they had.
The poor would have a chance ateducation, health care, better
living conditions, benefits fromBig Brother, the Communist
Party, unlike anything they hadever dreamed of.
It sounded so good.
It looked as if the faithful,the poor, who had no earthly
wealth, only heavenly riches,would trade in their god and
their mother Mary for thegodless paganism of communism,
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without even knowing that waswhat they were doing.
Dusk had fallen, the streetswere dark, except for some light
streaming out from thebuildings.
Suddenly light started to cutthrough the darkness, it seemed
far off, almost diffuse,flickering.
From a distance it appeared asif waves of rays were flowing
upward toward heaven.
As the light came closer, allthe eye could see were Brazilian
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women processing, carryingcandles, singing litanies to our
lady, and praying the rosary.
They, like so many of us, whenwe are in danger, were crying
out to Mama, and she was turningto her son as she did at Cana,
and he was now not changingwater into wine, he was changing
men hearts of stone into heartsmade for him alone.
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Through the rosary, it was as ifJesus was walking the earth once
more, and the veils were liftingfrom the people's eyes, and they
could see the communists for whothey were.
The sure victory became thesurprising but devastating
defeat.
The Philippines, nineteeneighties, the citizens of the
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Philippines had suffered at thehands of President Marcos and
his wife Imelda, who made asport out of selfish excessive
spending while their peoplestarved, how the people had
loved President Marcos, how theyhad embraced him and his bride,
how they in turn had betrayedthem.
It seemed as if there was nohope for the people.
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When someone attempted to betterconditions and try by election
to bring about reform, he waskilled.
Kori Aquino's husband was such aman.
He was returning to Manila torun for office against President
Marcos.
He was assassinated as hedeplane the aircraft in front of
his wife and family.
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Cori Aquino fearlessly rose upto continue her husband's
mission, and the peopleresponded, they went out into
the streets and processed, wallsof humanity marching forward,
flowers in one hand and rosariesin the other, fingering the
beads of their rosaries as tankswith their young men came toward
them.
When it seemed as if neitherside would give in, suddenly the
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soldiers climbed down from theirtanks and joined the faithful,
taking beads into their hand,their guns replaced by the armor
of God, the rosary.
There are those who say our ladyappeared in the sky to the
soldiers in Marcos' army andpleaded with them not to hurt
her children.
There is a statue there in thesquare to commemorate this time
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when despair disappeared andhope appeared, when for a moment
the world could see the day whenthe lion would lay down with the
lamb.
Is there power in the rosary?
The rosary has lived on in thehands of the faithful in freedom
and in captivity.
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But in a few years a man and awoman who had the power to do
good but chose evil will beforgotten.
As we have been writing aboutthe victories of the rosary, we
started to understand what webelieve the Lord is saying
through this book.
There is hope, be not afraid.
See how I have responded whenyou have turned to my mother
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through the rosary.
I have given you a means, agift.
All you have to do is reach outand pray.
I am listening.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor comesto Louisiana.
The city of New Orleans in theLouisiana Territory was
originally a French settlementin 1718, then became a Spanish
settlement in 1763, and thenagain a French settlement before
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Napoleon Bonaparte sold it tothe United States in 1803.
This can all be said in onesentence, but the ramifications
of such change were monumental.
A little community of FrenchUrsuline nuns came to New
Orleans in 1727 to educate thesettlers and help in the
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hospital.
All went well until 1763, whenthe city came under Spanish
rule.
Many Spaniards came and withthem Spanish nuns.
Now the Ursulines werepredominantly Spanish, with a
remnant of French nuns.
In 1800 the French took back NewOrleans.
It was only eleven years sincethe French Revolution had
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devastated France, and mostparticularly the religious in
France.
Tales reached the mothersuperior of the Ursulines, who
was Spanish, of wholecommunities of nuns being
decapitated, subjected toinhumane atrocities, priests
exiled or killed in France.
She feared for her community.
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She wrote to the King of Spain,Charles IV, asking permission to
leave New Orleans immediatelywith her sisters.
Soon after having sent thepetition, she and fifteen
Spanish nuns left for Havana.
All that was left were sevenFrench Ursulines, but they kept
everything going.
The mother superior, MotherSaint Andre, Madier, longed for
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the strength of her cousin,Mother Saint Michele.
She wrote, pleading with MotherSaint Michele to come to New
Orleans and take charge of thecommunity.
She was well known for herleadership, ability, and piety.
Mother Saint Michel was strong,having gone underground when the
revolution began in the south ofFrance with the help of another
woman.
She had begun to rebuild herreader here her community and
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open to it opened a girls'boarding school in Montpelier.
When she received word fromMother Andrews of their plight,
she dropped everything and setout for the New World.
That's when the trouble began.
And our lady was put in charge.
Mother Saint Michel appealedfirst to her spiritual director.
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He refused her permission toleave France.
The state of the religiouscommunities in France was a
shambles.
A woman of her qualificationswas needed in France.
He sent her to the bishop.
His refusal was even louder thanthe spiritual director.
He almost screamed at her, ThePobo the Pope alone can give
this authorization.
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The Pope alone.
Now if you consider that PopePius VII was imprisoned by
Napoleon and being transportedfrom Rome to Versailles, and
that he was completelyincommunicado, you can realize
the futility of the wholesituation.
However, Mother Saint Michel wasa feisty nun.
She wrote a letter to the Popeanyway.
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The thrust of her letter was asfollows Most Holy Father, I
appeal to your apostolictribunal.
I am ready to submit to yourdecision.
Speak.
Faith teaches me that you arethe voice of the Lord.
I await your orders.
Go or stay from your holinesswill be the same to me.
The letter had been written forthree months, but there had been
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no way to post it.
The conditions of the countrywere such that nothing was
secure.
So Mother Superior addressed OurLady.
O most Holy Virgin Mary, if youobtain a prompt and favorable
answer to my letter, I promiseto have you.
Honored in New Orleans under thetitle of Our Lady of Prompt
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Succor, part of the deal withOur Lady was that a statue would
be carved, which would bebrought to New Orleans and made
the protectress of thecommunity.
Nobody acts more quickly thanMother Mary when she wants
something done.
Mother Saint Michel's letterleft Montpellier on March 19,
1809, and permission was grantedby His Holiness April twenty
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eighth.
She left for Louisiana with herstatue of Our Lady.
She kept her word to Our Lady assoon as she and her little group
of nuns arrived in New Orleans.
Our Lady's statue was placed inthe convent chapel under the
title of Our Lady of PromptSuccor.
Devotion spread throughout NewOrleans, even into other areas.
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Of Louisiana.
There are two memorable miraclesattributed to Our Lady of Prompt
Sucker's intervention.
The first is the Great Fire of1812.
The entire city of New Orleanswas being ravaged by a
devastating fire, which wasfanned by incredible winds.
The fire was heading straightfor the little convent.
One of the sisters placed astatue of Our Lady of Prompt
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Succor in the window and prayedfor the aid of Mother Mary under
this title.
Within minutes, the winds made a45-degree turn in the other
direction.
Witnesses who saw the miracleproclaimed, Our Lady of Prompt
Succor has saved us.
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Rosary.
All we can do now is pray whenall else fails, when there is
nothing left to do.
We pray a last ditch effort.
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We've tried everything else.
It's out of our control.
Now all that is left is to pray.
Instead, we should begin bypraying, recognizing that the
most powerful tool we have isprayer.
Saint Paul said, put on thearmor of God that you may be
able to stand against the wilesof the devil.
For our wrestling is not againstflesh and blood, but against the
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pursuit, the principalities andthe powers against the world
rulers of the present darkness,against the spiritual forces of
wickedness on high now, we arein the best of times, we are in
the worst of times.
Our battle is not with humans,as Saint Paul tells us, it is
truly a battle, possibly thefinal battle for our souls and
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those precious souls of ourfamilies.
What is the armor of God?
What better armor can you wearthan that of the Virgin Mary?
Who did you did you run to uh uhuh to run to when you were a
child?
Wasn't it to mama?
We need our mama.
I remember when I was a childand I would have a nightmare.
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Who did I run to?
My mother, and what did she say?
Did you pray before you fellasleep?
Each time I'd forgotten to pray,then when she sent me back to my
bed with, now say your prayersand you won't have any more bad
dreams.
I really didn't have too muchconfidence that it would work.
Although her reassuring wordsturned out to be prophecy, I
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never believed, but it alwaysworked.
Put on the armor of God, who waschosen by God to bring into the
world his son, to care for him,to parent him, to teach him, to
protect him, to love and cherishhim.
Was it not Mother Mary?
Did Jesus not perform his firstmiracle through the intercession
of the Blessed Mother?
As we journey with Jesus andMary in this book, we see how
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many times the mother of God andour mother interceded for us,
how many times she had to makethe decision for us at the cost
of her most precious son, andshe said yes.
If she did that, knowing her sonwould suffer, how much more
would she do now as we uh uh aswe turn to her, praying the
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rosary, the 150 roses we placeinto a bouquet for her.
The Lord and his mother, theangels and the saints have
always been interwoven.
When we wrote of the miracles ofthe Eucharist, we not only
learned more about the HolyEucharist, we discovered Mother
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Mary and her connection with theEucharist.
We encountered the saints, howthey lived and died for the
Eucharist.
We learned of the presence ofthe angels during the Mass.
And when we wrote of MotherMary, we became more fervently
aware of the Eucharist, thesaints and the angels.
When we wrote of the saints, wecould see the love they had for
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the Eucharist, how they allturned to Mother Mary, and how
many relied on the help of theangels.
We could see the work of theangels in Jesus and Mary's life
and in the lives of the saints.
The greats of our church turnedto the Lord, to his mother, to
the saints who had come beforethem, and to the angels.
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They knew they needed help, andthey were not past asking for
it.
Our popes all prayed the rosary.
It brought Pope Pius XII throughthe horrible Second World War.
Pope John XXIII prayed fifteendecades of the holy rosary every
day.
Our dear Pope John Paul II has arosary on him at all times.
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In his private chapel, as heprays for guidance and direction
from the Lord before the BlessedSacrament, you can bet he is
turning to the lady who savedhis life, May 13, 1981.
Beside his Bible and officebreviary, you are sure to find
the rosary.
When we interviewed theArchbishop of Zaragoza and
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filmed the uh the shrine of OurLady of Pilar, we were invited
into the Archbishop's uh Edoprivate chapel.
As with our beloved Pope JohnPaul II and Archbishop Fulton
Sheen, there beside his Bibleand his office was hanging a
rosary, the angels in therosary.
How many times, dear friends,have you been there to save us,
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even from ourselves?
Bob and I were still in thebusiness world.
On this particular day I wasreceiving some very upsetting
phone calls from customers andmanufacturers.
Time came for me to pick up mygrandson from high school.
He was not old enough to drive.
As I drove toward his school, Ibecame concerned that the anger
that had invaded my heart andsoul might spread to my boy.
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Seeking peace as only the Lordand his mother can provide, I
prayed the rosary for a halfhour, right up to the parking
lot of his school.
Rob, my grandson, got in the carand we then tried to get onto
the freeway.
I was in the a I was in the farright lane trying to try to
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deter trying to merge intotraffic.
I sorted I could barely squeezeinto the slow lane on my left.
Cars were barely moving.
Finally, having entered it, Itried to get into the faster
lanes to no avail.
I was blocked in.
First by the car in front, thenby the car in the rear, and then
by the car on the left who wouldnot move up and give me room to
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get in, no matter how much Iflashed my left turn signal.
Well this was not helping myformer attitude a bit.
Now I was really getting upset.
Suddenly I felt the car go outof control.
I tried to steer the wheel, itwas locked.
I shot out my right arm to blockmy grandson from going through
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the window.
I shouted, No Lord, not not him.
The car stopped dead.
My foot started to shake.
It was still on the brake whichhad not worked.
I had tried to push the brakepedal through the floorboard.
When my trembling had subsided,I got out of the car on my side.
On Rob's side, we were on theedge of a precipice about forty
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feet above the road below.
A highway patrolman came to ouraid.
He shook his head and said therewas no earthly reason why we
were not dead.
The tow truck arrived, and adriver used some expletives I
want I will not repeat, andshook his head as as he helped
us into the cab of his towtruck.
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Our car was helplessly raised inthe air behind us.
When we arrived at the gasstation, uh the mechanic dialed
the phone for me.
I burst into tears as I tried totell Bob what had happened.
I really didn't know myself.
The mechanic later told Bob ifRob and I were not standing
there in front of him, and ifthe highway policeman had not
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verified the story, he would nothave believed it.
He showed us how the axle hadsnapped in two, severing the
wheel from the rest of the car.
The wheel should have spun off.
We and the car should havecapsized and plunged into the
road and the cars below.
Instead, it became wedged in thefender and prevented the car
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from moving and turning over.
No one could explain it at thetime.
They had never seen anythinglike it.
It was as if someone had jammedthe wheel, bracing the car.
Was that an angel who had wedgedthe wheel beneath the car?
Were they angels who blocked mypath and locked me in the right
lane, not allowing us to go intothe fast lane?
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If we had been in the fast lane,we would have been going so
fast.
Not only would we have died, butwe would have taken other lives
with us.
There would definitely have beena pile up.
Maybe it was someone else'sangel who interceded.
Maybe it was the guardian angelof someone who would discover
the cure for cancer, or could itbe it was that God heard my cry
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and called upon our guardianangels to save my grandson?
Or was it the Queen of Angels towhom I had been praying the
rosary before I picked up mygrandson?
Had she summoned her army ofangels?
After all, our grandson hadalways loved her.
He had been in the Junior Legionof Mary when he was a little
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boy.
Did she have a special plan forhim?
We believed that all wars arereligious wars, all battles
between principalities andpowers, good fighting evil.
We fight with guns and bombsinstead of prayer.
Mothers, sons, and daughtersdie, families lose their
husbands, and fathers, wives andmothers, sisters and brothers,
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and the world is poorer for theloss of these precious loved
ones.
But it doesn't have to be thatway.
We have a more powerful form ofcombat on our knees.
These are just a few instanceswhere Mother Mary was asked for
her intervention through therosary, and she said, Yes, I
know that there are countlessmore examples of battles fought
and won through the rosary, butforgive us if we just cite these
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few.
The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, itwas the sixteenth century, and
the body of Christ was beingattacked from all sides.
On one side, poor innocentbelievers were falling to an
enemy from within the church.
The church in Europe would losesix million of her of her most
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precious faithful children toheresy.
As they did not know what washappening, they did not fight,
they did not pray for our MotherMary's intervention, and so they
were lost to us.
Praise God, they are now comingback home to their church, and
they are so very beautiful.
Could it be the many rosariessaid by their families and
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friends?
As this sneak attack was goingon, other enemies of the church
were attacking.
Turkish forces were overtakingmuch of Christian Europe.
As this wave of followers ofMuhammad invaded a country, they
not only took lives, they tooksouls.
The name of Christ was not heardin these lands for up to seven
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hundred years.
They knew that they would neverbe able to subjugate their
conquests unless they could takeaway all hope.
Had Satan told them of his mottoover the gates of hell, all you
who enter here abandon all hope.
But they were not victoriouswhere people prayed.
The Turkish fleet was attackingAustria.
The Austrian fleet under DonJuan was no match against the
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superior Turkish fleet.
It looked as if another countrywould be lost to Islam.
Her family is in danger.
They need her?
Mary?
To the rescue.
Pope Pius V sent out word to theforces of Christ to pray the
rosary.
A rosary crusade was waged onthe knees of the faithful, and
the battle was won.
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To the eyes of the world, theAustrian fleet was outnumbered,
but there was a powerful generalthat could not be seen by human
eyes.
It was Mary and her heavenlyarmy of angels.
Although the Austrian fleetappeared finished, they were
not.
They were joined by the angels,with Michael the Archangel in
front, swords of faith drawn,they were poised, just waiting
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for their queen's command.
The image of our lady ofGuadalupe was placed at the helm
of the ship, leading theAustrian fleet into battle to
victory.
Man's weapons could not defendtheir land, but roses in the
form of rosary beads movedJesus' heart, and through his
mother Mary, he did the rest.
Jesus, I trust in you.
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Battle of Vienna, September 11,1683.
We're in the 17th century andthe Turkish forces are still
forging ahead, hell bent onconquering and subjugating all
of Christian Europe.
We find ourselves in Vienna in1683.
The Emperor of Austria's forcesare exhausted and discouraged.
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They are badly outnumbered andweary from battle.
The Emperor, in a last ditcheffort, sends word to King John
Sobieski, sovereign of Poland,imploring his help.
Now this was not the first timethat King Sobieski faced
overwhelming odds in battle, butthe pendulum swung so
overpoweringly in the enemy'sfavor he did not know if this
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was to be his death rather thanhis victory.
As the Turkish invaders worsewere were converging on Vienna,
King John Sobieski turned to ourlady of Chestachoa.
Give us victory, my lady, grantus your help and salvation.
As for me, do whatever youchoose, I'll accept your will,
whether it's life or death.
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Suddenly a thought came to him.
Instead of honoring her, MotherMary, we have passed a lot of
responsibility on to her.
Seeking honor and glory forourselves, we've left the toil
to her.
But she has accepted it.
I don't know why she loves us,yet she does love us, even if we
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repay her with ingratitude anddisloyalty.
Give us victory, he prayed, andlet it be your victory alone.
He came before the people andasked them to join him in
publicly placing all their trustin our lady.
He knelt humbly before hisqueen, Mary Most Holy, and one
by one all the people knelt withhim.
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He began the apostles' creed,reminding them what they
believed and what so many beforethem had died for.
All the faithful prayed, onlynow the prayers took on
different meaning.
They were no longer just words,they were a battle hymn.
This is what we believe, and forthis we die, rather than deny
our Lord.
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As they continued the rosary,now reciting the Lord's prayer,
the words Thy will be done tookon new meaning.
They were truly commending theirlives to the Father,
self-abandonment, the trust ofchildren, of whom Jesus said,
The kingdom of heaven is theirs.
The king placed his troops inall of Vienna under the
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protection of our blessedmother, man, woman, and child,
peasant and noble, king andsoldier, all intoned with one
voice and one hope, thesupplication Mary help us and
help them she did.
Eighty thousand Christiantroops, with King John Sobieski
in front, defeated a fierceTurkish army consisting of two
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hundred fifty thousandbarbarians.
Now the Turkish army was knownfor their inhumane treatment of
soldiers and citizens.
The mere thought of themapproaching a village would
bring terror into the hearts ofmen as well as women.
What gave these people thecourage to fight and win?
The mother of God, Mary, help ofall Christians.
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What gave them the power and theammunition to use against the
enemy?
The Rosary Sri Lanka, Ceylon,nineteen forties.
World War II was raging andravaging nation after nation in
Europe and in Asia.
No country was safe from therelentless forging ahead,
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onslaught of the godless Naziand merciless Japanese forces.
World War I, the war to end allwars, had done no such thing.
Adolf Hitler, the man everyonethought was a harmless maniac,
no one to pay any attention to,was conquering most of Western
Europe.
The tiny nation of Japan, whichwas negotiating with our
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government right up to the sneakattack on Pearl Harbor, was
determined to rule rule the restof the world.
The atrocities that that ourservicemen shared after they
returned home gave us a clue tothe inhumane torture they
underwent in prison camps.
The rules governing thetreatment of prisoners that had
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been set up by the GenevaConvention before World War I
did not seem to apply to themembers of the Axis, as the Nazi
Japanese Alliance was called.
They acted as if they wereexempt from this governing body,
which was given the authority toensure humanitarian treatment to
all prisoners of war.
The Nuremberg trials brought outthe open defiance of the Nazis
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as witnesses came forth,testifying to the monstrous
genocide and barbaricexperimentation done on
civilians as well as prisonersof war.
The Japanese fleet was ominouslyapproaching the tiny nation of
Sri Lanka.
They were not equipped in thesmallest way to defend
themselves against the powerfulJapanese navy.
It seemed all was lost.
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Then the Bishop of Sri Lankaturned to Mother Mary.
He knew that her son Jesus wouldnot refuse her anything.
He promised the Lord he wouldbuild a cathedral in his
mother's honor if they weresaved from the enemy that was
almost upon them.
He placed his small island underthe protection of Mother Mary.
We can just see Mother Marycovering them with her mantle,
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blocking the people of Sri Lankaas they knelt praying the
rosary.
We can see her heavenly army ofangels spreading their wings,
swords drawn.
Did they blind the eyes of theinvading fleet so that they
could not see this the smallnation?
No one knows, but as resolutelyas they had been converging on
Sri Lanka, they turned aroundand did not attack the small
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island.
Why had they left them alone?
Ask Jesus and Mary when you seethem.
Austria, nineteen fifties.
Many of the Catholics in Germanywho refused to follow Hitler and
his henchmen suffered at thehands of the SS and the Gestapo.
Thousands were sent toconcentration camps in one
village where there is a shrineto Our Lady of Alt Otting, near
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Munich, on the eve of the end ofthe war, a priest and six
villagers were executed.
What was their crime?
They had gone to the Alliedforces to plead with them to not
harm the shrine to our lady.
For this, the Nazis brutallymurdered them.
The shadow of the hammer andsickle was covering more and
more of Eastern Europe.
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As Hitler scorched the earth,the Soviet troops watched and
waited.
They would have their fun.
Next in 1945, the Second WorldWar ended, but for too many that
did not mean peace.
Instead, a new enemy wasmarching.
God alone knew what horrors thatwould mean.
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The people of Austria waited andtrembled.
Their worst fears came to pass.
Russian troops occupied theirland.
A feeling of helplessness beganto spread through the villages.
The faithful began to turn tothe mother of God, their Maria.
They could not fight with man'sweapons.
They were plainly outnumbered.
They would fight on their knees.
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They prayed as if with one mindand heart, families, whole
villages, men and women alike,the young and the old, the rich
and the poor, all pleading forour lady's intervention.
They had been forced to hailHitler, Heil Hitler, and many of
their families had died ratherthan pay tribute to this pagan
who had set himself up as God.
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Now, as they prayed the fifteendecades of the Holy Rosary, they
hailed their mother and theirLord Jesus and their heavenly
family, heard them and camethrough.
The Russian troops just turnedaround and marched out of
Austria without any worldlyreasoning.
The Russian troops just pulledout.
There was uh there was noexplanation ever given why they
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just upped and left.
As quickly as they had appeared,they disappeared.
What what made them do it?
Could it be that the mother ofGod, their Maria, and her son
summoned their heavenly heavenlyarmy of angels, and with the
rosary as ammunition, theRussians, knowing they were
outnumbered, retreated?
Brazil, nineteen sixties.
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Brazil has always been a countryof the haves and the have nots.
The poor get poorer and the richget richer.
The many poor live in cardboardhouses, while the few rich live
in mansions.
Sanitary conditions arevirtually unknown for most of
the citizens of Brazil.
It is a nation of many OldTestament Lazaruses who would
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relish some scraps from thetables of their own rich man.
It is a natural breeding groundfor communism to infiltrate and
spread.
When your child's stomach isswollen from starvation and his
lips are parched from lack ofwater, when you see your family
dying before your eyes becausethere is no medical aid for
them, any promise of hope soundsbetter than what you have.
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It looked as if an even greatermonster would swallow up the
innocent the innocent soldiersuh of uh Brazil.
Um it was in it was the eve ofthe elections.
The Communist Party hadcampaigned well and hard.
It was a shoe-in.
Victory was certain.
The celebrations had alreadybegun in the Communist Party
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headquarters.
Did the poor not realize theywere uh, you know, like so many
of their Hispanic brothers andsisters, only trading one kind
of inequity uh for another, whowould tell them there was no
other voice they would listento?
The communists made it sound sogood.
They had promised them change,and any change was better than
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what they had.
The poor would have a chance ateducation, health care, better
living conditions, benefits fromBig Brother, the Communist
Party, unlike anything they hadever dreamed of.
It sounded so good.
It looked as if the faithful,the poor, who had no earthly
wealth, only heavenly riches,would trade in their god and
their mother Mary for thegodless paganism of communism,
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without even knowing that waswhat they were doing.
Dusk had fallen, the streetswere dark, except for some light
streaming out from thebuildings.
Suddenly light started to cutthrough the darkness, it seemed
far off, almost diffuse,flickering.
From a distance it appeared asif waves of rays were flowing
upward toward heaven.
As the light came closer, allthe eye could see were Brazilian
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women processing, carryingcandles, singing litanies to our
lady, and praying the rosary.
They, like so many of us, whenwe are in danger, were crying
out to Mama, and she was turningto her son as she did at Cana,
and he was now not changingwater into wine, he was changing
men hearts of stone into heartsmade for him alone.
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Through the rosary, it was as ifJesus was walking the earth once
more, and the veils were liftingfrom the people's eyes, and they
could see the communists for whothey were.
The sure victory became thesurprising but devastating
defeat.
The Philippines, nineteeneighties, the citizens of the
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Philippines had suffered at thehands of President Marcos and
his wife Imelda, who made asport out of selfish excessive
spending while their peoplestarved, how the people had
loved President Marcos, how theyhad embraced him and his bride,
how they in turn had betrayedthem.
It seemed as if there was nohope for the people.
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When someone attempted to betterconditions and try by election
to bring about reform, he waskilled.
Kori Aquino's husband was such aman.
He was returning to Manila torun for office against President
Marcos.
He was assassinated as hedeplane the aircraft in front of
his wife and family.
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Cori Aquino fearlessly rose upto continue her husband's
mission, and the peopleresponded, they went out into
the streets and processed, wallsof humanity marching forward,
flowers in one hand and rosariesin the other, fingering the
beads of their rosaries as tankswith their young men came toward
them.
When it seemed as if neitherside would give in, suddenly the
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soldiers climbed down from theirtanks and joined the faithful,
taking beads into their hand,their guns replaced by the armor
of God, the rosary.
There are those who say our ladyappeared in the sky to the
soldiers in Marcos' army andpleaded with them not to hurt
her children.
There is a statue there in thesquare to commemorate this time
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when despair disappeared andhope appeared, when for a moment
the world could see the day whenthe lion would lay down with the
lamb.
Is there power in the rosary?
The rosary has lived on in thehands of the faithful in freedom
and in captivity.
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But in a few years a man and awoman who had the power to do
good but chose evil will beforgotten.
As we have been writing aboutthe victories of the rosary, we
started to understand what webelieve the Lord is saying
through this book.
There is hope, be not afraid.
See how I have responded whenyou have turned to my mother
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through the rosary.
I have given you a means, agift.
All you have to do is reach outand pray.
I am listening.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor comesto Louisiana.
The city of New Orleans in theLouisiana Territory was
originally a French settlementin 1718, then became a Spanish
settlement in 1763, and thenagain a French settlement before
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Napoleon Bonaparte sold it tothe United States in 1803.
This can all be said in onesentence, but the ramifications
of such change were monumental.
A little community of FrenchUrsuline nuns came to New
Orleans in 1727 to educate thesettlers and help in the
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hospital.
All went well until 1763, whenthe city came under Spanish
rule.
Many Spaniards came and withthem Spanish nuns.
Now the Ursulines werepredominantly Spanish, with a
remnant of French nuns.
In 1800 the French took back NewOrleans.
It was only eleven years sincethe French Revolution had
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devastated France, and mostparticularly the religious in
France.
Tales reached the mothersuperior of the Ursulines, who
was Spanish, of wholecommunities of nuns being
decapitated, subjected toinhumane atrocities, priests
exiled or killed in France.
She feared for her community.
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She wrote to the King of Spain,Charles IV, asking permission to
leave New Orleans immediatelywith her sisters.
Soon after having sent thepetition, she and fifteen
Spanish nuns left for Havana.
All that was left were sevenFrench Ursulines, but they kept
everything going.
The mother superior, MotherSaint Andre, Madier, longed for
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the strength of her cousin,Mother Saint Michele.
She wrote, pleading with MotherSaint Michele to come to New
Orleans and take charge of thecommunity.
She was well known for herleadership, ability, and piety.
Mother Saint Michel was strong,having gone underground when the
revolution began in the south ofFrance with the help of another
woman.
She had begun to rebuild herreader here her community and
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open to it opened a girls'boarding school in Montpelier.
When she received word fromMother Andrews of their plight,
she dropped everything and setout for the New World.
That's when the trouble began.
And our lady was put in charge.
Mother Saint Michel appealedfirst to her spiritual director.
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He refused her permission toleave France.
The state of the religiouscommunities in France was a
shambles.
A woman of her qualificationswas needed in France.
He sent her to the bishop.
His refusal was even louder thanthe spiritual director.
He almost screamed at her, ThePobo the Pope alone can give
this authorization.
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The Pope alone.
Now if you consider that PopePius VII was imprisoned by
Napoleon and being transportedfrom Rome to Versailles, and
that he was completelyincommunicado, you can realize
the futility of the wholesituation.
However, Mother Saint Michel wasa feisty nun.
She wrote a letter to the Popeanyway.
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The thrust of her letter was asfollows Most Holy Father, I
appeal to your apostolictribunal.
I am ready to submit to yourdecision.
Speak.
Faith teaches me that you arethe voice of the Lord.
I await your orders.
Go or stay from your holinesswill be the same to me.
The letter had been written forthree months, but there had been
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no way to post it.
The conditions of the countrywere such that nothing was
secure.
So Mother Superior addressed OurLady.
O most Holy Virgin Mary, if youobtain a prompt and favorable
answer to my letter, I promiseto have you.
Honored in New Orleans under thetitle of Our Lady of Prompt
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Succor, part of the deal withOur Lady was that a statue would
be carved, which would bebrought to New Orleans and made
the protectress of thecommunity.
Nobody acts more quickly thanMother Mary when she wants
something done.
Mother Saint Michel's letterleft Montpellier on March 19,
1809, and permission was grantedby His Holiness April twenty
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eighth.
She left for Louisiana with herstatue of Our Lady.
She kept her word to Our Lady assoon as she and her little group
of nuns arrived in New Orleans.
Our Lady's statue was placed inthe convent chapel under the
title of Our Lady of PromptSuccor.
Devotion spread throughout NewOrleans, even into other areas.
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Of Louisiana.
There are two memorable miraclesattributed to Our Lady of Prompt
Sucker's intervention.
The first is the Great Fire of1812.
The entire city of New Orleanswas being ravaged by a
devastating fire, which wasfanned by incredible winds.
The fire was heading straightfor the little convent.
One of the sisters placed astatue of Our Lady of Prompt
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Succor in the window and prayedfor the aid of Mother Mary under
this title.
Within minutes, the winds made a45-degree turn in the other
direction.
Witnesses who saw the miracleproclaimed, Our Lady of Prompt
Succor has saved us.
We did not try to list all ofthe victories in this article.
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We wanted to give you a taste ofthem, and hopefully you will now
search to learn more about ourMother Mary.
Join us on a journey of faith.
If the mysterious andawe-inspiring victories of the
rosary have stirred somethingdeep within your soul, then
let's take this journeytogether.
At Journeys of Faith, we're notjust about reading or watching,
we're about experiencing thesacred firsthand.
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Since 1980, we've been guidingpilgrims like you to the very
places where miracles haveunfolded, from Eucharistic
wonders to holy sites across theglobe, with one heart, one mind,
one spirit, with one vision.
We're here to help you growspiritually.
Here's how you can dive deeperwith us and embark on a virtual
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pilgrimage.
Walk the paths where our Lady'spresence has been felt.
Join us on a transformative tripto Eucharistic Miracle Sites.
Explore our resources.
Grab a book, DVD, or digitalmedia from our collection to
enrich your understanding ofCatholic teachings.
Browse the Virgin Mary shop atJourneys of Faith and connect
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through events to be part of ourcommunity events and let's share
in the wonder of faith together.
Support our mission as a 501c3nonprofit.
Every purchase or donation helpsus spread the message of faith.
And don't just read aboutmiracles, live them.
Visit our website today andstart your journey with journeys
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