Between February 11th and July 16th in 1858 Our Lady appeared 18 times to St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in France. In every apparition she was seen holding a Rosary in her hands. She had come to teach us how to say the Rosary and meditate on its mysteries, and so help her to save souls. Lourdes now has become a place of pilgrimage, a place of grace and prayer.

In 1917, the Blessed Virgin appeared to three little shepherds at Fatima, a Portuguese village. She asked for penance and prayer, and for the Rosary to be said. She asked the three children to recite the Rosary daily with great devotion for the peace of the world. She taught them to say this ejaculation after the Gloria of each decade: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fire of Hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, help especially those who are in most need of your mercy." Our Lady also urged upon the children the practice of mortification, saying: "Pray much and make sacrifices for sinners; very many souls go to Hell because there is no one who sacrifices himself and prays for them."

At the last apparition on the 13th October 1917, she said that she wanted to be called Our Lady of the Rosary. She said, "I am the LADY OF THE ROSARY, and I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins; they must not continue to offend Our Lord who has been so deeply offended. They must say the Rosary." Our Lady also promised to assist at the Hour of their death those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months 1. Go to Confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Say 5 decades of the Rosary; 4. Keep her company for a quarter of an hour by meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary in order to make her reparation.