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Rosary victories.

[I can't find my own article about 9 rosary victories in the world. They say nothing is missing on the net – possibly individual will find it?Telegimelka, help! In the meantime, I remind you due to the fact that it's very crucial right now. MandRoslaw Dakowski]

Battle of Lepanto.

This was in 1571. A immense Turkish fleet set out to conquer Europe. No Christian nation had adequate ships to face its enemies. The Turkish forces were so large that it seemed that they were not ships, but that the full immense cities sailed out onto the open sea close Lepanto, in the Gulf of Corinth. The Sultan was certain of victory. He said he'd make stables out of St Peter's Basilica for his horses.

What was to be done in the face of specified a terrible danger, the threat of a full Christian Europe? Pope Pius V decided to order a large begging prayer of the rosary. Soldiers approached the sacraments and prepared for conflict for 3 days' fasting and prayer of the rosary. The slogan for the fight was the words “Queen of the Holy Rosary”. A immense rosary was suspended on the banner. Rosary trials have been organised throughout Europe.

It was especially celebrated in Rome. A image of Our woman of Snow was carried on the streets singing the rosary.

And then, contrary to military predictions, on 7 October, a tiny Spanish and Venetian fleet [there were besides Genueans and ships, soldiers of the Pope md] had a devastating triumph over the enemy. It became clear to everyone that it was the Queen of Heaven's intervention. Pope Pius V then decided that this fact should not be forgotten and so established on 7 October the feast of Our woman of Victory, which was later called the feast of Our woman of Rosary, since October is the period of the Holy Rosary.

It is known that a good commander can defeat a smaller army against a stronger enemy. Mary the Queen of the planet besides wants to make large victories present by choosing especially for her knights; children, humble, hidden, sick...

Battle of Chocim.

In the 17th century, Turkey was the most powerful military state that posed a immense threat to Christian Europe. In 1621 the young Sultan Osman II moved towards the east borders of Poland. He dreamed that "he would swallow up all Poland" and then conquer another Christian countries. Never before has specified a large military force stood at the threshold of Poland: 4 100 1000 soldiers, 1 100 50 larger guns, 2 100 sixty field guns, 10 1000 camels, and twice as many buffaloes. Hetman Karol Chodkiewicz, who managed to rise only thirty-five 1000 soldiers, was set up in front of this crowd. 30 1000 another Zaporosian Cossacks came to help.

On September 2, 1621, a camp outside Chocim was set up. Osman crowed that specified a thin fistful is taunting his immense troops and swearing that he would not take food into his mouth until these impudents were cut out. Meanwhile, Poles trusting in the aid of God's parents from the first fight came out victorious. However, on September 21 they were hit by a terrible blow; he died due to wounds by the hetman Chodkiewicz. After him, Stanisław Lubomirski took command. There was a confusion. There was no decisive battle. Poles only defended the trenches fiercely. But how did it happen that between 6 and 9 October there was peace on very favorable terms for us? What prompted the Sultan, a leading army so immense that he sought a truce erstwhile there were neither ammunition nor food in the Polish camp, and the plague decimated soldiers? The answer to this question can only be given if we find out what happened at that time in Krakow.

When tragic news of the death of the hetman reached the royal castle, the city's inhabitants were appalled. Where to look for help? Only at the 1 who is the parent of Divine Victory, our Leader and Shield for our Homeland. Bishop Marcin Szyszkowski ordered the rosary procession. A image of Our woman of the Rosary was taken to the streets from the Dominican Church. It was a copy of this image of Mary, which was carried procedurally during the triumph at Lepanto. There was a bang of cannons from the towers and gates of the city. The bells of all the churches rang, calling the surrounding population to this event. It was impossible to ask who was on it. You should have asked who wasn't there.

Three 100 candles burned around the painting, a 100 royal singers toned the rosary. Those who could pray for the salvation of religion and homeland! It was October 3rd. A fewer days later, successful treaties were signed for Poland. No 1 doubted that Our woman had won. It was stated by the captain Lubomirski himself. ...

“For six days we had already spoken for peace with the Turks, but they could not be accepted, for little than the failure that the Republic of Poland would suffer, but this peace would be shameful. That night from 3 to 4 October, erstwhile I was awake, for misfortune The Fatherland's dream took distant from me, and even while awake, Our woman appeared to me, for who could not admit her by the light around her from all the colors from which the night shone me with the brightness even in my life not seen in the day and heard from her this 1 word: "ENDURANCE".

She disappeared, and I was in delight to kneel, but then I only regained the cognition of what to do to me: erstwhile I lifted up my eyes, my hands and my heart to heaven, I thanked God for giving me an unworthy admonition. And thanks to the Holy Mary...

Oh! This appearance of specified assurance and assurance inspired me, that on the next day I gave the Sultan the answer, that only a assurance on his part about keeping the old agreements with Poland would halt me from continuing the war, to which we had, as God dear to me, only 1 barrel of powder in the camp. And with this answer I impressed him so much that now the large vizier Dylawer sent us a milder condition, but I did not accept them by sticking to the first which I gave; and thus after 3 days of negotiations, bearing in head the sacred word: ‘ENDURANCE’ I brought the Gentiles to the fact that I made the peace I wanted.”

– Under Chocim Our Lady she utilized a tiny fistful of knights to save Poland and Europe from the flood of paganism – (...) Today, too, our Queen wants to show power. So he prepares his army and separates his weapons. Anyone, including children, may be a knight in this victorious army, as long as he chooses Mary as Leader and wishes to obey her orders. [...]

The battles of King John III Sobieski.

... Memoir of the battles of King John III Sobieski, the large Turk slayer. He was a superb leader, but he never attributed success to himself, but to God and the Blessed Virgin. This is evident not only by his statements, but besides by the many vots he made in the Marian sanctuaries, and the churches he founded as a sign of gratitude for his victories.

From early years, John’s parents have implanted deep religion and conviction in their sons that nothing can be done in their own strength, but that God’s almighty power must be trusted. By their lives and deeds they taught children to love Mary – Queen of Heaven and Earth, with her to search aid in all hard matters. The great-grandfather of King John, Hetman Żółkiewski, the hero from Cecora, left behind a large evidence of love for Our Lady.

He was wearing a ringing with an inscription on it. ‘Mariae Mancipium“ – that is, “The Slave of Mary” in order to express his full trust and devotion.

No wonder Jan Sobieski was an highly spiritual man. He belonged to the Rosary fraternity, fasted on Saturdays about bread and water, started no more crucial work without prayer. erstwhile he embarked on a war expedition, he always preceded it by a procession. Godly devotion taught him to be selfless and to value God and the welfare of his homeland more than his own. As a captain, he repeatedly supported and financed war expeditions against the Turks and Tatars.

In 1675 Sobieski was elected king. The coronation parliament was now in progress, erstwhile a serious danger arose over Lviv. About 3 100 1000 Turkish-Tatar army under Nuradin was approaching the city. The king immediately interrupted the celebration to go to his rescue. His wife Marysieńka followed him to pray for her husband. She showed large courage, due to the fact that erstwhile the people of Lviv fled the city in a panic, she organized a large rosary prayer in churches.

Sobieski managed to rise only six 1000 soldiers. The situation seemed hopeless, but it was trusted that Our woman would come to the rescue. On August 25, Polish ramps let us know the enemy was approaching. The bells were filled with churches. The crowds prayed on their knees before the image of Our woman of triumph in the Jesuit church. Soon, the fight started. The left Polish wing retreated under enemy pressure. Then the clouds gathering from the very morning gathered over the city and Sobieski's army into a single, huge, dark, dense cloud. The thundered Polish guns. He replaced them with the first thunderstorm. At the same time, the king threw the remainder of his strength into the attack.

With the cry: “Jesus lives, Mary lives!” the husarias and armoured banners began, and along with a crowd of people and horses a terrible storm rushed through the hurricane. The invader's army was flooded, hailing. The unsilent lightnings stunned with a bang, blinded with lightning, and the wind's strength overthrown the riders. The fight was short. The Turkish army was in awe of fleeing. That evening the bells rang over Lviv and triumphant shouts sounded: “Jesus lives, Mary lives!” Shortly thereafter, the Turks were taken from almost the full Ukraine of Kiev.

(...) King Władysław IV inactive in the reign of his father Sigismund III came to Jasna Góra with thanks for his triumph at Chocim in 1621. Before the miraculous image he ordered to sacrifice the banner of Polish Hussaria. He besides established the “Order of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary” with a call to Mary: “You have won – win”. It was the first Polish order. He was to be given to a peculiarly well - deserved one. The decorated were to make a kind of knighthood order, fighting for the reign of Our woman in our nation.

Then in 1656 another king, the brother of Władysław IV, Jan Kazimierz solemnly, in the presence of the papal nuncio and representatives of all states, made the offering of the Polish crown of woman Heaven and Earth. Similarly, his successor Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, almost after his choice, went to Jasna Góra and there he made a sincere heart. Inside, he placed, written on parchment, an act of complete devotion to himself, as well as his royal authority in the sacred bondage of the parent of God.

The queens besides frequently expressed their dedication to Mary. I have already mentioned to you Stanislaw Żółkiewski, who wore a ringing with the inscription “The Slave of Mary”. You may find it interesting that erstwhile Grand Chancellor Jerzy Ossolinski in 1650 founded the altar on Jasna Góra in a chapel of a wonderful image (until present existing), he ordered the chain to be placed upstairs as a symbol of Mary's devotion and to compose in Latin: “The large parent of the Virgin Her most mediocre slave, George, master on Ossolina.” Hetman Karol Chodkiewicz, who defended Poland against Turks and Tatars, and hetman Stefan Czarniecki, who was celebrated in fighting the Swedes, wanted to quit even more to the parent of God. They took a vow of purity, not of their own families, but, while remaining in the service of the Immaculate One, dedicated their full lives to defending their homeland and Christianity. ...

An crucial order from the Queen of Heaven. Sobieski close Vienna.

... In 1683 the Turkish plague threatened Europe again. The Mahometian troops went all the way to Vienna. It seemed that neither the besieged city nor the full of Christendom was saved. In this hard situation Pope Innocent XI sent an MP to John III Sobieski to ask that the king hurry to rescue him. An MP besides came from the Austrian emperor to beg for help. However, the Polish parliament, bearing in head the empty treasure and the war- exhausted country, hesitated ...

Then the balance was crossed by the holy father Stanislaw Papczyński, confessor of the king. In prayer he begged Mary for advice. Our woman appeared to her worshiper and secured victory. She told me to go to Vienna and fight. Father Papczyński spoke to the king, the senate, the papal legate, and spoke with these words: “I assure you, King, with the name of the Virgin Mary, that you will conquer and cover yourself, the knighthood of Poland and your homeland with immortal glory.” When Sobieski heard that the Queen herself had expressed her will, he went to Vienna's rescue, taking any twenty-seven 1000 troops with him. Before that he stopped at Jasna Góra.

All day long he prayed and served for Holy Mass. He besides entered another Marian sanctuaries on his way to beg the Blessed Virgin for help. In Krakow, the king made a pilgrimage to 7 churches, and on 15 August, on the feast of the presumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, left the city to join the army, which came earlier under the command of the Hetmans of Sieniawski and Jabłonowski. Queen Marysieńka escorted her husband to Będzin and then returned to the royal castle. Here, as the descriptions from this period testify, the inhabitants of the city continued to pray incessantly, thus accompanying the military. Even at night, the bells awakened them to kneel and sing songs of our Father and of the Holy God according to the bishop's instructions.

The Queen of Mary herself was an example to all. all morning she went to another Kraków sanctuary for a peculiar service. At midnight, along with the full court, she went to the chapel of the Kazimier Palace in Łobzów to beg for victory. On 10 September (just during the night prayer) the courier arrived at the Queen with the news that Polish troops crossed the Austrian border. This fresh flight of lightning ran around Kraków. Houses were left, fires were extinguished, churches were filled. People fasting for bread and water prayed all day long.

During this time Sobieski stood on the top of the kalember mountain, other Vienna. At the sight of over a 100 1000 enemy armies weary and hungry Polish knights trembled. The king, however, saw the incorrect decrees of the leader of his enemies and saw this as the first sign of God’s help.

The next day Sobieski attended 3 Holy Masses on September 12. He joined Holy Communion and lying on the cross, with the full army he trusted the Holy Mother. In wanting everything to happen under her sign, he gave the knighthood the slogan: In the name of the Virgin Mary – Lord God help!

At 2 p.m. They were moved to attack, singing Godmother. Sobieski stood on a hill, blessed those fighting with the tree of the Holy Cross and the relics of the saints, and at a decisive minute he commanded Husaria himself.

And what happened? A Muslim power was scattered into the dust. Twenty-five 1000 Turks died that day, and only 1 1000 Poles died that day.

As the Lord Jesus of St. Margaret had previously foretold, our humble ruler did not credit himself with this victory, but with God and his mother, saying memorable words: "I have come, I have seen, and God has conquered." He besides sent a letter to the Pope asking him to set the day on September 12 with the feast of Mary’s Name. It was to be a sign of gratitude and a witness to all generations that specified a large triumph was achieved by this name. This vacation is celebrated throughout the Church until today.

One more interesting fact is worth knowing. While our knights were fighting at Vienna, In Kraków, he set out from Wawel Cathedral towards the Mariatsky Church, a processional “spiritual war” march. With the singing of the rosary was carried the Blessed Sacrament and a wonderful image of Our woman of the Rosary Winner from the Dominican Fathers Church (the same with which the procession took place during the victorious conflict of Chocim).

On the way at specially arranged altars, sermons were preached. Innumerable crowds attended this event. The queen followed the Blessed Sacrament in a black penance dress, followed by a court of over a 1000 people. Then about six 100 monks carried relics of various saints, and 50 patricians with burning candles surrounded the image of Our Lady. On that day, all the inhabitants of Krakow mobilized for a warm rosary prayer. Trade ceased, no work was thought to be paid or even food preparation. Only 1 thing was to pray victory! We are not surprised, then, that the descriptions at the time say: “There is no dubium (i.e. doubtThat Krakow prayed this triumph ...!

There is much more to be said about the Viennese Victoria, the thanks the King gave in the Marian sanctuaries, the churches he founded. They are a evidence that God was victorious and His Mother. (...)

A miracle over the Vistula.

It was in 1920. Poland's independence, recovered after many years of captivity, was again threatened. There was terrible news coming from the east front. The Polish army was retreating under the force of the Bolshevik troops. More lines of defence were left. Lost Vilnius and Grodno. In Białystok, Marchlewski from Dzierżyński stopped, who were to regulation in truncated Poland (without Wielkopolska, Silesia and Pomerania). Fear and uncertainty took over the Polish people. Can we defend ourselves? Our army, composed mainly of recruits, was in a state of “full decay” (as Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki wrote in the memories of a war correspondent). There was a panic. The news from the country was bad. The government and the parliament disagree. Among the unemployed and farmers, the Bolsheviks were agitated. What about the global situation? It was no secret to anyone that the Germans were eagerly awaiting Warsaw. This was to become a slogan for the separation of Gdańsk and advanced Silesia. There was talk about the end of Polish statehood. The revolutionized German army was expecting Red victory. Whoever thought deeper knew it was a grand jury hearing.

Where to look for help? During this time, the young twenty-six-year-old catechist priest Ignacy Skorupka, like Korupka's second father Kordecki, aroused religion in Mary's help. On July 31, he cried:

Do not worry, God and parent of God Częstochowa, Queen of the Polish Crown, will not leave us... There will be a victory. The day is near! The day of August 15th, the day of Our woman of Herbs, and the enemy will be beaten.

These words were written by his biographer Stanisław Helsztyński. A akin prophecy by Father Skorupka was noted by Corporal Seweryn Dzik of the 236th Volunteer Army Infantry Regiment:

The Blessed Virgin Patron and Queen of the Polish people will not let the nation to perish, but with her prayer and request she will receive the grace of a miracle from God! On 15 August, on the festival of Assumption, Poles will cease to retreat and the days of Polish triumph will begin.

In July, in order to supply exhausted liner troops, the Volunteer Army was organized under the command of General Joseph Haller. A 100 and 5 1000 volunteers were accepted into her ranks. Young people, or children up to the age of eighteen, prevailed. Priest Ignacy was 1 of the first to volunteer for the army. He received approval to become a volatile chaplain of the capital garrison. At night and day, he served those who went to the front and wounded in hospitals. He encouraged youth, gymnasium students, and artisan school students to join the Volunteer Battalions, of which the Volunteer Division was to appear in the future. He was seen as at railway stations and squares convinced the hesitant that effort was essential and the aid of the Queen of Poland was provided. He prepared himself profoundly for a decisive battle. On 12 August he made a general confession from his full life to the Capuchin Fathers on Miodowa Street. He besides sacrificed his life through the hands of Mary for the Fatherland.

The same religion revived the large rosary apostle of Naples, Blessed Bartolo Longo, the builder of Our woman of the Rosary in Pompeii.

He wrote an open letter to Catholics all over the planet to pray for Poland. In the first days of August 1920 he said to Father Stanisław Mystkowski:

I am convinced that Our woman of Rosary, who is the Queen of the Polish Crown, will not let her beloved nation to groan again in Russian captivity .... Poland has a bright future ahead of...

Meanwhile, the enemy was approaching Warsaw. The inhabitants of the capital were appalled, filled the temple. A field altar was erected in Castle Square, where the relics of the saints were placed. About 30 1000 people prayed at this place hot on the rosary, lay a cross. General Weygand wrote that he had never seen people so praying as in Warsaw.

At the same time, the Polish Episcopate gathered at Jasna Góra donated the homeland of Mary the Queen.

Finally the Warsaw conflict began. The 16th army of Tuchaczewski, the chief russian leader, called the “demon of war” was coming to the Polish chic. On 14 August, Prague was to be occupied. The fight began at night from 13 to 14 August. Fr Ignacy Skorupka took part in it on an episode of the Ossians, in the 1st Battalion of the 236th Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The dark night, the many arches, the sounds of the fight, it all made a shocking impression on young boys. The priest Ignacy circulated between the platoons and encouraged. He assured of a close triumph due to Mary. He visited the field hospital, confessed the wounded.

On 14 August at 3:30 p.m., Ossian was within scope of the russian artillery. She hung a thick fog. The commanders were preparing the battalion for the attack. The priest Ignacy went distant before the soldiers and spoke the following words out loud:

Remember, boys, our triumph is due to the fact that with us is Our Lady, trust her!

He then blessed the soldiers with a cross. The commander asked him to stay among the wounded, but he went before the battalion with a cross erected high. By awakening faith, he set an example of courage and valor. He died, hit in the head with a bullet fragment. Battalion Commander Lt. Słowikowski stated:

He gave his life for the cost of Poland's victory. He offered them to Mary in Warsaw.

In a poem written shortly before the death of the poem, Fr Skorupka asked:

Lead my steps Christ to battle,

Let me fall,

But let Poland win

I'll run into the sky!

The triumph won on a hundred-kilometre front line was made on 15 August, twenty-four hours after the priest's death. However, August 14 was the tallness of the top tension for society. At this point, the sacrifice of a heroic chaplain became a supernatural impulse, which had a large influence on the spirit of the nation and troops. On the feast of the presumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary the power of the enemy broke and a fast retreat began.

Our Lady's words were fulfilled, said on 15 August 1873 to the Servant of God Wanda Malczewska.

Today will be my solemn vacation erstwhile Poland is free again... On that day my people will have a large triumph over the enemy. If Poland is to be given independence, the erstwhile oppressors will shortly emergence against it to strangle it, but my young army, in my name fighting, defeat them, drive them far distant and force them to make peace. I'll aid her.

(...)

There was a movement in Poland to get the Polish government to formally address the Pope, to establish the dogma of the presumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Polish women placed before the painting of Our woman of Czestochowa as a votum of golden scepter and apple. As of 1936, the celebration of the army began on 15 August (after a long break in 1992, the tradition was restored again). Pope Pius XI, who stayed in Warsaw in 1920 as a nuncio and witnessed this miracle, ordered 2 paintings representing this event. He recommended that an image of Our woman of Częstochowa be placed in the sanctuary in Loreto, on the left of him the figure of Father Skorupka, and on the right of Cardinals Kakowski, Dalbor and himself as nuncio. Similarly, a chapel was arranged at Castel Gandolfo, at the papal residence. Polish artist Jan Rosen, commissioned by Pius XI, made a large wall painting depicting the conflict of Ossow with the priest Skorupka as a central figure. Polish painters: Jerzy Kossak, Roman Bratkowski and others liked this scene as a symbol for the full Warsaw battle. It presents Mary, appearing above the Polish army and sending rays of grace.

The past of the teacher of life? – another proof that never, even in the most hard situations, should 1 break down, but trust and seize the most powerful weapon.

The Invisible Line of defence (Austria).

Austria was divided into 4 business zones in 1945. In 1947, Franciscan father Piotr Pawlicek founded the Crusade of the Rosary Expiation in Vienna (expiation means remuneration). The Crusade was intended to fulfill Our Lady's requests from Fatima. About 2 million people from 1 100 and 7 countries reported their willingness to pray for the full world. erstwhile a period a prayer vigil was gathered. In Vienna on September 12, there was always a procession begging. It was headed by Father Peter and the ultimate government. Father Pawlicek 1 day besides called on Austrians to refuse with him a rosary rewarding for their homeland. Then a remarkable thing happened. On 15 August 1955, a peace treaty was unexpectedly signed, following which all business troops, including russian troops, withdrew from the country. Austria has regained sovereignty and independence. The then Chancellor of the Republic Julius Raab, commenting on this event, said:

Mother of God helped us to get the peace treaty ... We are free, thank you, Mary.

Many years later, communist leaders in Moscow were amazed at how specified a political and strategical step could have taken, specified a "non-Marxist" decision.

Father Pawlicek called on the Austrians on the radio to join in prayer together.