Be, then, exalted in heaven and on earth, glorious Virgin and dear Mother Mary, and, for the honour and glory of your Divine Son Jesus, accept me for your son, without regard to my miseries and sins. Deliver me from all evil of soul and body, obtain for me every virtue, and first of all humility; and bestow upon me all the benefits and graces necessary to make me pleasing to the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. THE END. --- R. WASHBOURNE, PRINTER, 18 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. Miraculous Prayer. AUGUST Queen of Heaven! Sovereign Mistress of the Angels! Thou, who from the beginning hast received from God the power and mission to crush the head of Satan; we humbly beseech thee to send thy holy legions that, under thy command and by thy power, they may pursue the evil spirits; encounter them on every side: resist their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of everlasting woe. Amen. _'Who is like unto God!'_ An Indulgence of 40 days is attached to the devout recital of this prayer. ETIENNE, _Bishop of Lausanne_. --- All ye holy Angels and Archangels keep us and defend us. Amen. --- O good and tender Mother! Thou shalt ever be our love and our hope. --- A Prayer in time of Temptation. O Divine Mother! Send thy Angels to defend me, and drive the cruel enemy from me. _These prayers were approved by the Archbishop of Tours, and the Bishops of Bayonne and Nantes in the year 1863._ --- ORIGIN OF THE MIRACULOUS PRAYER. A pious priest of the Diocese of Bayonne, the Abbe Cestac, is the founder of two Religious Congregations in the aforesaid city, viz., the Servants of Mary, who devote themselves to the work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, though not cloistered: and the Bernardines, who are contemplatives. To one of these devout Religious the Blessed Virgin deigned to make the following communication, which is contained in a letter from the Abbe Cestac to M. Dupont of Tours. '_Anglet, near Bayonne._ 'SIR, 'It is not exactly correct to say that the Blessed Virgin appeared to a good, simple saint of the Community, but rather, I should say, that this soul received a supernatural communication from this Divine Mother, or at any rate conceived she had received such communication from on high. She was at prayer, when a ray of divine light illumined her soul. She saw in spirit the vast desolation caused by the devil throughout the world, and at the same time she heard the Divine Mother telling her that it was true that hell had been let loose upon the earth; but that the time had come when we were to pray to her as Queen of Angels, and when we were to ask of her the assistance of the heavenly legions to fight against these deadly foes of God and of men. '"But, my Good Mother," answered this soul, "you who are so kind, could you not send them without our asking you?" '"No," she answered; "because prayer is one of the conditions required by God Himself for obtaining favours."