OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY AT POMPEII, by Elisabetta Valgiusti for EWTN

The programme explains the development of the devotion to the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary from Middle Age to our days.
The history of the Rosary is bound to a very special event that takes us back to the victory of the Christians in the naval battle of Lepanto against the muslims on October 7th 1571 . Pope st. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Virgin Mary invoked through the prayer of the Rosary.
The following year, in 1572, Pius V commemorated with the title of Blessed Virgin of the Victory the memory of the presence of the Virgin Mary at the side of the Christians, estabilishing the feast on October the 7 th .

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