"For We are convinced that the Rosary, if devoutly used, is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large...Here, if the joyful mysteries be but clearly brought home to the minds of the people, an object lesson of the chief virtues is placed before their eyes. Each one will thus be able to see for himself how easy, how abundant, how sweetly attractive are the lessons to be found therein for the leading of an honest life." (On Commending the Devotion to the Rosary, 1893)
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