Saint Teresa of Avila: what she said about the Holy Rosary

THE PRAYER OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY IN SANTA TERESA D'AVILA

Saint Teresa of Avila, from her own experience, called the Rosary: ​​“An all Divine devotion, a source of graces, a remedy for a thousand evils, a chain that unites the earth with the sky, a rainbow of peace which, the Lord, in his Mercy, he traced in the firmament of his Church, and an anchor of salvation for all of us Christians ".
Among his devotions to the Madonna, he gave preference to the Holy Rosary, which is one of the first memories that emerge from Teresa's memory when the story of her life begins. Learn to recite it from the mother. Donna Beatrice, who was very devoted to the Holy Rosary, as the Saint points out.
Teresa will never abandon this particular devotion to Rosario. It is his daily homage to the Madonna.
In the canonization processes of the Saint we find a precious testimony in this regard.
One granddaughter declares: "As much as the disease affected her, she never neglected to recite it, to find time to do it, even at twelve or one in the morning".
Once, starting to recite the Rosary, she was rapt in ecstasy and saw the Purgatory which, had the shape of a large enclosure, in which the souls, suffered in the purifying flames.
At the first Ave Maria which she recited, she immediately saw a jet of fresh water fall on the souls and cool them; so it also happened at the second Ave Maria, so at the third, at the fourth ... he understood then how much relief, the recitation of the Rosary, was to the purging souls, and he would have never wanted to interrupt it.