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40 - FOURTH DECADE - The surpassing
merit of the holy Rosary as seen in the wonders God has worked through
it.
Thirty-sixth Rose In 1578, a woman of Antwerp had given herself to the devil and signed a contract with her own blood. Shortly afterwards she was stricken with remorse and had an intense desire to make amends for this terrible deed. So she sought out a kind and wise confessor to find out how she could be set free from the power of the devil. She found a wise and holy
priest, who advised her to go to Fr. Henry, director of the Confraternity
of the Holy Rosary, at the Dominican Friary, to be enroled there and to
make her confession. Accordingly, she asked to see him but met, not Fr.
Henry, but the devil disguised as a friar. He reproved her severely and
said she could never hope to receive God's grace, and there was no way
of revoking what she had signed. This grieved her greatly but she did not
lose hope in God's mercy and sought out Fr. Henry once more, only to find
the devil a second time, and to meet with a second rebuff. She came back
a third time and then at last, by divine providence, she found Fr. Henry
in person, the priest whom she had been looking for, and he treated her
with great kindness, urging her to throw herself on the mercy of God and
to make a good confession. He then received her into the Confraternity
and told her to say the Rosary
One day, while Fr. Henry was celebrating Mass for her, our Lady forced the devil to give her back the contract she had signed. In this way she was delivered from the devil by the authority of Mary and by devotion to the holy Rosary. A nobleman who had several daughters placed one of them in a lax monastery where the nuns were concerned only with vanity and pleasures. Their confessor, on the other hand, was a zealous priest with a great devotion to the holy Rosary. Wishing to guide this nun into a better way of life, he ordered her to say the Rosary every day in honour of the Blessed Virgin, while meditating on the life, passion and glory of Jesus Christ. She joyously undertook this devotion, and little by little she grew to have a repugnance for the wayward habits of her sisters in religion. She developed a love of silence and prayer, in spite of the fact that the others despised and ridiculed her and called her a fanatic. It was at this time that a holy priest, who was making the visitation of the convent, had a strange vision during his meditation: he saw a nun in her room, rapt in prayer, kneeling in front of a Lady of great beauty who was surrounded by angels. The latter had flaming spears with which they repelled a crowd of devils who wanted to come in. These evil spirits then fled to the other nuns' rooms under the guise of vile animals. By this vision the priest became aware of the lamentable state of that monastery and was so upset that he thought he might die of grief. He sent for the young religious and exhorted her to persevere. As he pondered on the value of the Rosary, he decided to try and reform the Sisters by means of it. He bought a supply of beautiful rosaries and gave one to each nun, imploring them to say it every day and promising them that, if they would only say it faithfully, he would not try to force them to alter their lives. Wonderful and strange though it may seem, the nuns willingly accepted the rosaries and promised to say the prayer on that condition. Little by little they began to give up their empty and worldly pursuits, letting silence and recollection come into their lives. In less than a year they all asked that the monastery be reformed. The Rosary worked more changes in their hearts than the priest could have done by exhorting and commanding them. Pages:
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