Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

Fr. Victor Brown’s Catholic Daily Message In 1571, Pope Saint Pius V, one of our Dominican brothers who had been elected Pope, asked the people of Rome to pray the Rosary, to which he was very devoted, for a Christian naval victory over a Muslim fleet that was gathering off the coast of Greece with the intention of invading Italy and destroying the Church there. As soon as the battle had been fought, and before word could be sent by normal means to Rome, Saint Pius learned by supernatural means that the Christian fleet had been totally victorious and the Muslim threat to Europe had ended. As a result of that, the Pope decreed that October 7 would be celebrated as the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.