What Our Lady said about the devotion to the three Hail Marys

It was revealed to Saint Matilda of Hackeborn, a Benedictine nun who died in 1298, as a sure means of obtaining the grace of a good death. Our Lady said to her: “If you want to obtain this grace, recite Tre Ave Maria every day, to thank the SS. Trinity of the privileges with which he enriched me. With the first you will thank God the Father of the Power that he has given me, and by virtue of it you will ask that I assist you in the hour of death. With the second you will thank God the Son for having communicated his wisdom to me, so that I know the SS. Trinity more than all Saints. For it you will ask me that at the hour of death you lighten your soul with the lights of faith and remove from you any ignorance of error. With the third you will thank the Holy Spirit for having filled me so much with love and goodness that after God I am the most tender and merciful. For this incomparable goodness you will ask me that in the hour of your death I will fill your soul with the gentleness of divine love and thus change the pains of death for you in sweetness.

At the end of the last century and in the first two decades of the present day, the devotion of the Three Hail Marys spread rapidly in various countries of the world for the zeal of a French Capuchin, Fr Giovanni Battista di Blois, assisted by the missionaries.

It became a universal practice when Leo XIII granted indulgences and prescribed that the Celebrant recite the Three Hail Marys after the Holy Mass with the people. This prescription lasted until Vatican II.

Pope John XXIII and Paul VI gave a special blessing to those who propagate it. Numerous Cardinals and Bishops gave impetus to the spread.

Many Saints were propagators of it. St. Alfonso Maria de 'Liquori, as a preacher, confessor and writer, did not cease to inculcate the good practice. He wanted everyone to adopt it.

St. John Bosco highly recommended it to his young people. Blessed Pio of Pietrelcina was also a zealous propagator. St. John B. de Rossi, who spent up to ten, twelve hours every day in the ministry of confessions, attributed the conversion of obstinate sinners to the daily recitation of the Three Hail Marys.

Practice:

Pray prayerfully every day like this:

Mary, Mother of Jesus and my Mother, defend me from the Evil One in life and in the hour of death

by the Power that the Eternal Father granted you
Ave Maria…

by the Wisdom that the divine Son granted you.
Ave Maria…

for the Love that the Holy Spirit has granted you.

Holy Mary…