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The Secret of the Rosary
by
Saint Louis de Montfort
MONTFORT PUBLICATIONS, New York
Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, 1954
THIRTY-FOURTH
ROSE:
SIMON DE
MONTFORT,
ALAN DE LANVALLAY AND OTHÈRE
IT IS ALMOST impossible to do real credit to
the victories that Count
Simon de Montfort won against the Albigensians under the patronage of
Our Lady of the Rosary. These victories are so famous that the world
has never seen anything to match them. One day he defeated ten thousand
heretics with a force of five hundred men and on another occasion he
overcame three thousand with only thirty men. Finally, with eight
hundred horsemen and one thousand infantrymen he completely put to rout
the army of the King of Aragon which was a hundred thousand strong, and
this with the loss on his side of only one horseman and eight soldiers!
Our Lady also protected Alan de Lanvallay, a Breton Knight, from great
perils. He too was fighting for the Faith against the Albigensians. One
day when he found himself surrounded by enemies on all sides Our Lady
let fall one hundred and fifty rocks upon his enemies and he was
delivered from their hands. Another day when his ship foundered and was
about to sink, the Blessed Mother caused one hundred and fifty small
hills to appear miraculously above the water and by means of them they
reached Brittany in safety.
He built a monastery at Dinan for the religious of St. Dominic, in
thanksgiving to Our Lady for all the miracles that she had worked on
his behalf in answer to his daily Rosary. Having become a religious
himself he died a holy death at Orleans.
Othère was also a Breton soldier, from
Vaucouleurs, and he often put whole companies of heretics or robbers to
flight unaided, wearing his Rosary on his arm or carrying it on the
hilt of his sword. Once when he had beaten them his enemies admitted
that they had seen his sword gleam and that another time they had
noticed a shield on his arm which had pictures of Our Lord and Our Lady
and the Saints upon it. This shield made him invisible and gave him the
strength to attack well.
Another time he defeated twenty thousand heretics with only ten
companies and without losing a single man. This so impressed the
general of the heretics' army that he came to see Othère
afterwards, abjured his heresy and declared publicly that he had seen
him surrounded by flaming swords during the battle.
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