Happy Feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary and the month of the Rosary

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Happy feast day of the Holy Rosary! This beautiful prayer is a compendium of the gospel and a history of our salvation.
 
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Thanks Christine, for beginning this thread.

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Since it is a Sunday, however, the liturgy at Mass is of the Sunday, but yesterday it was nice that the priest offering Mass had the option and chose to offer a votive Mass in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary – especially fitting for it was the First Saturday in the month of the Rosary.

There is a strong parallel, it seems to me, in the story of this feast and today’s challenges:
The feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary became official by Pope Pius V in remembrance of the battle of Lepanto. It is here where a vicious battle was fought and won by the Christians against the invading forces of the Islamic empire!
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During the sixteenth centuries the Turks had made great inroads into European territory when they won battle after battle almost to the door of Rome itself! But under the guidance of Pope Pius V their victory would now be short-lived. This particular Pope was of the Dominican Order so he had gained a great love for the Rosary and it is the Rosary that this devout Pope turned to in order to turn back the Muslim invaders!
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Pope Pius V was also able to join forces with the Spanish, Venetian and Genoese fleet under the leadership of Don John of Austria to overcome the Turks who also had amassed a huge fleet in which they hoped to gain control of the whole of ‘Christiandom’.
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The battle took place in the year 1571, and it was the Muslims who seemed to have the greater ability when in times of war and also a superior fleet. But things did not turn out well for the Muslim marauders, as the battle commenced and the Muslims lost 15 ships while 177 taken by the victorious Armada and hundreds of thousands of Muslim soldiers lay dying or wounded. Even though the Christian fleet lost more ships the victory of the Christians over the Muslim invaders has been attributed to the intervention of our Lady of the Rosary. It was as the battle raged that Pope Pius V and several other devout souls prayed the Rosary for the embattled soldiers to win the victory for all of Europe. And it was upon praying the Rosary that this devout Pope looked up and exclaimed to the Cardinals present, “Our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Catholic army.” This was said before anyone knew of the victorious battle and many were stunned to learn later that the battle was won at that precise moment.
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Through the intervention of our Lady of the Rosary victory won the day at the battle of Lepanto! This would be one of many defeats suffered by the Muslim invaders before they finally were driven back to their own lands.
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How very powerful is Our Lady of the Rosary.
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