At the end of World War II, the allies turned Catholic Austria over to the Russians. The Austrians wanted the Soviets out of their country. But what could Austria do: seven million against 220 million?
Fr. Pater Petrus, remembered Don John of Austria. Outnumbered three to one, Don John led the Papal, Venetian, and Spanish ships against the Turks at Lepanto, and through the power of the rosary miraculously defeated them. So Fr. Petrus called for a rosary crusade against the Soviets. He asked for a tithe: that ten percent of the Austrians, 700,000, would pledge to say the rosary daily for the Soviets to leave their country. 700,000 pledged.
For seven years the Austrians prayed the rosary. Then, on May 13 1955, the anniversary of the apparition at Fatima, the Soviets mysteriously just packed up and peacefully left. Military strategists and historians were baffled. Why would the Communists pull out? Austria is a strategically located country, a door to the West, rich in mineral deposits and oil reserves?
Our Lady's rosary did what the Hungarian Freedom Fighters could not do with a bloodbath of 25,000 people. John Cortes, brilliant writer and diplomat of the 19th century wrote: "Those who pray do more for the world than those who fight. If the world is going from bad to worse, it is because there are more battles than prayers."
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