The power of praying the rosary was not only very visible and demonstrable during the battles against the Turks, but can also be concretely experienced today.
"Regarding his praying in special situations, we would like to present some examples based on Reverend Albert JM Shamon's
The II. At the end of World War II, Catholic Austria came under Soviet rule. The Austrians wanted the Soviets to withdraw from Austria. But what can Austria do, 7 million people against 220 million? Then a priest, Franciscan Father Petrus, remembered Austria's "Don John". Don John led the Christian fleet at Lepanto against a numerical superiority of 31 and overcame the overwhelming force with the power of the rosary. So Father Petrus called the people of Austria to a rosary campaign against the Soviets. He asked one-tenth, one-tenth of the population of Austria, 700,000 people, to promise to pray the rosary daily for the intention that the Soviet troops would leave their country. The Austrians had been praying the rosary for seven years. And after seven years, on May 13, 1955, the anniversary of the Fatima apparition, the Russian troops left Austria.
Military analysts and historians alike cannot explain this event. Therese Neumann stated with clear conviction that this freedom was a gift from God in response to the prayer of the Austrian people and the daily rosary! (A year and a half later, the blood sacrifice of 25,000 people in Hungary was not enough to force the Soviet troops to leave.)
In 1962, in Brazil Dona Amelia Bastos founded the "Women's Campaign for Democracy" organization, which wanted to achieve people's peace and freedom through prayer. In Belo Horizonte, 20,000 women recited the rosary aloud at the scene of a left-wing meeting that brought it to an early end. In 1964, in Sao Paulo, 600,000 women prayed the rosary in one of the largest demonstrations in Brazil's history, ringing the bell over the communist revolution!
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