The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-25
PUTTING ON GODS ARMoR.
Some Examples of the Powerful Eff
fects of the Rosary.
CRandall in Catholic Columbian)

Randall in Catholic Columbian)
Inciting his hearers to frequent II not
dailv recital of the Rosary, one OF our
fathers. in a very edifying sermon,
likened it to putting on the armor OF
Cod for spiritual combat He Drlefly
told how this devotion was practcaiIy
introduced by st. Dominic, and Wnat
wnnders he performed with it in crush
ing heresy. And through all the ages
since it has been the marvellous means
not merely of individual blessing puI
world wide prodigy in great events.
Every Catholic should keep his or her
beads in his pocket, never fail to use
them daily, and have resort to them IN
difficulties. There are many persons
who wear foolish superstitious charms
and have faith in them; but we nave
the arnor of God and should never
neglect it. for we are always beset not
only with temporal and worldly trou-
bles, but have to fight against the IN
sidious and powerful demon and MS
spirits of darkness. "One day, sald
the priest, "a gentleman went through
the streets of Rouen, in France, and
on the pavement picked UP a rosary.
His first impulse was to carry it to a
neighboring church. He did so, and
as he knelt there, the thought occurred
to him to use it. Sc he said his BEADS,
and. meditating on the mysteries, be-
fore the blessed sacrament, grace
that he had resisted came surglng into
his soul, and he promised to struggle
no longer, but obey the voice that
called him to the sacred ministry. In
due course he became priest and was
appointed to pastoral charge, one OF
his duties being attendance on hos
pital. One day he stopped at the bed
side of a man whose days were draw
ing rapidly to a close. He was
Catholic, but had refused to prepare
for death. He said that his mother had
been a very devout woman and had
reared him piously. She had, on her
death bed, given him her beads, and
that, for a time, he had recited them
every day Gradually, however, hav-
ing become dissipated, he grew indif-
ferent to religion, even scornful of it,
and on one occasion he threw away
his rosary I'm what town did you
live?" said the priest. I'm Rouen,'' he
replied would you recognize the
beads you cast aside if you saw them?'
said the father. Yes, indeed" said
the invalid. Are these your beads?"
the priest said, displaying them. With
a cry of joy the sick man exclaimed:
They are my mothers beadsl Where
did you get them?" The priest in
formed him and how they had at once
determined him to give his life to the
holy ministry. The man took the
rosary and his heart was softened.
From that moment he became penitent
and soon afterward. snatched like
brand from the burning, he died in
peace and took the road to heaven"
While the father was narrating this
anecdote, | recalled how one of the
English martyrs, a priest, just before
his execution, flung his rosary into the
crowd before him. There was a mighty
struggle on the part of his co-religion-
lists to possess the relic, but the beads
struck a distinguished Protestant on
the breast and he grasped and retained
them. Subsequently, he became con-
verted and declared that when the
rosary struck him a strange sensation
thrilled his whole frame, and undoubt-
edly impelled him to the examination
of the Catholic church eventuating in
his conversion to it. In one of my