On October 7, 1571, Christian Europe faced the mighty Ottoman fleet at Lepanto. Pope St. Pius V asked the whole Church to pray the Most Holy Rosary, and the outnumbered Holy League won a decisive victory. In thanksgiving, the Holy Father established the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. Centuries later, the Blessed Lady rescued the soul of a young lawyer lost in the occult, Bartolo Longo. He returned to the faith, spent the rest of his life spreading devotion to the Most Holy Rosary, and built a great shrine at Pompeii. He was declared a Saint in 2025. Pope Saint John Paul II called it "my favorite prayer."
Our Lady of the Rosary,
pray for us.
“If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day
by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God’s grace, peaceful places.” Venerable Father Patrick Peyton