After the prayer, he saw the Virgin Mary by his side, surrounded by a multitude of angels, who struck the devil with a golden staff and said: “Answer my servant Dominic as he requests”. No one heard or saw Our Lady, except Saint Dominic. To this command, the demons began to cry out:
Our enemy, our ruin, and our confusion! Why do you descend from heaven with the purpose of making us suffer so? O advocate of sinners who saves them from hell, or from the surer path to heaven, we are indeed obliged, though we do not want to, to confess all the truth? Must we really acknowledge before everyone what will shame us and cause our fall? Woe to us! Eternal curse on our principles of darkness!
Well, listen, Christians: this Mother of Christ is omnipotent and can prevent her servants from falling into hell. It is she who, like a sun, disperses the darkness of our intrigues and schemes. It is she who frustrates our afflictions, unravels our traps, and renders all our temptations useless and ineffective.
We are obliged to confess to you that none of those who persevere in your service are condemned with us. Only one of her sighs offered to the Holy Trinity is worth more than all the prayers, vows, and desires of the saints. We fear her more than all the blessed together, and we can do nothing against her faithful servants.
Indeed, it happens that many Christians who, according to ordinary laws, would be condemned, invoke her at the point of death, manage to save themselves through her intercession. Oh, if this little Mary, as they called her out of rage, had not opposed our plans and efforts, we would have already destroyed and fallen the Church, and led all its hierarchies, members of every order and rank, into error and infidelity!
Compelled by the violence we have become accustomed to, we also proclaim that none of those who persevere in reciting the Rosary, be condemned, as she obtains sincere repentance for their sins from her faithful servants, and they receive forgiveness and indulgence.
After obtaining this confession, Saint Dominic had the present company pray the Rosary slowly and devotedly. And here is the surprising part! With each Ave Maria prayed by the Saint and the people, a crowd of demons in the form of embers left the body of that man. When he was completely free, Saint Mary, always invisible, blessed the people, and everyone felt a vivid and sensitive joy. This miracle was the cause of conversion for many Albigensian heretics, who even joined the Rosary Confraternity.
To deepen your reflection on the Rosary as a spiritual weapon of Mary, consult the Apostolic Exhortation Marialis Cultus by Paul VI, which reaffirms the Rosary as an evangelical prayer and a privileged instrument of Marian devotion.
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