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"It [the Rosary] was the delight and comfort of the great and saintly Pope Pius IX., of happy memory. 'The Rosary,' he said, 'is the most efficacious prayer for the increase in the hearts of the faithful of the devotion towards the Mother of God.' Once while blessing beads for some visitors at the Vatican, he said, pulling out of his pocket a tiny chaplet, 'I too have my beads. They are the most precious treasure I preserve in the Vatican. ...
Ah! give me an army of men, saying their beads, and with them I shall overcome all the enemies of the Holy See."

Source: 1895 A.D. Periodical, "The Pilgrim Of Our Lady Of Martyrs, Vol. XI, p. 294

Jun. 24, 2015