Our Lady appeared to Saint Dominic and invited him to preach the Holy Rosary, as a means for eradicating heresy and sin and the Blessed Mother pledged victory over the Cathari if he were to follow her instructions.
“Preach my Psalter,” she said, “if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God.”
Saint Dominic received the Rosary from Our Lady in 1214 to defeat heresy.
The Rosary — as spiritual weapon against evil — has a very long and precious history. In twelfth and thirteenth century France, a group of heretics known as the Albigensians was destroying the minds of the Catholic laity with its erroneous ideas. The Albigensians’ teachings encouraged suicide, many times by self-induced starvation, because they believed that the body was an intrinsic evil and that the soul must be liberated from matter at all costs. However, as history often shows, Providence raises up great Saints in times of dire crises. This time it was no different. Saint Dominic, born of noble lineage, received the Rosary from Our Lady in the year 1214.
Saint Louis de Montfort Tells How Our Lady Intervened
in Combating the Albigensians—From The Secret of the Rosary
Our Lady gave Saint Dominic the Rosary as a weapon to combat the awful Albigensian heresy. The Rosary as we know it today took some time to develop. After Saint Dominic died in the year 1221, the Rosary was almost immediately forgotten. However, in 1464 Our Lord, Our Lady, and Saint Dominic appeared to Blessed Alan de la Roche, a Dominican friar, after which he preached the Rosary until his death in 1475. This tremendous apostolate by Blessed Alan de la Roche, through the direct intercession of Our Lady, made the Rosary a widespread devotion.
The Rosary by St. Alphonsus de Liguori
The Rosary by St. Alphonsus de Liguori
It is well known, that the devotion of the most holy rosary was revealed to Saint Dominic, by the Divine Mother herself, at a time when the Saint was in affliction, and bewailing, with his Sovereign Lady, over the Albigensian heretics, who were at that time doing great mischief to the Church. The Blessed Virgin said to him: "This land will always be sterile until rain falls on it." Saint Dominic was then given to understand, that this rain was the devotion of the rosary, which he was to propagate.
71 – ‘Your Holiness, we offer you this spiritual treasure: 3,525 rosaries’ – Bergoglio: there are certain restorationist groups, they go back to practices that I lived through, but not now…
Let us Pray devoutly the Holy Rosary to defeat the Bergoglian heresy
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