24/05/2026
St. John Bosco highlights the power of the Rosary over the devil
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐บ๐ด.
St. John Bosco was a holy priest whose deep spiritual life led to frequent visions or "dreams," as he would call them. He wrote about one of them in a letter to his students.
The dream occurred on the eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in it a stranger came up to him and asked him to look at something on the ground:
๐๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ถ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐บ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. "๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ," ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ.
"๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต?" ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ. "๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ
๐จ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ?"
"๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ! ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ. ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
The stranger went to get a rope and asked St. John Bosco to slap the snake with the rope:
๐๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ, ๐ช๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ.
The power of the Rosary
The snake began to struggle and quickly died. Then the stranger picked up the rope and put it in a box. What happened next was astonishing, and then the stranger explained the spiritual symbolism behind what happened:
๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐น. ๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ข.
"๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ?" ๐ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ.
"๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ," ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ, "๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐บ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ญ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ข ๐ฐ๐ณ, ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐บ, ๐ข ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐บ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ'๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด."
St. John Bosco took the lesson to heart and wrote to his students, "Let us devoutly say a Hail Mary whenever we are tempted, and we'll be sure to win."
The experience confirms what many exorcists have said about the power of the Virgin Mary over the devil. Satan is greatly humiliated by the purity and simplicity of the Blessed Mother and flies as fast as he can whenever he hears her name. It's a powerful reminder, one that urges us to pray the Rosary devoutly whenever we feel threatened by the Evil One.
