Our Lady to St. Dominic, instituting the rosary: “Wonder not that until now you have obtained so little fruit by your labours [in converting the Albigenses]; you have spent them on a barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of Divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, He began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore preach my Psalter, composed of 150 Angelic Salutations and 15 Our Fathers, and you will obtain an abundant harvest.” (Quoted by Blessed Alan de la Roche, Sermon on the Confraternity of the Rosary; see “The History of St. Dominic, Founder of the Friars Preachers” by Augusta Theodosia Drane, pub. 1891, pg. 122; the whole of Ch. X demonstrates the strong authorities confirming the tradition that Our Lady established the rosary to St. Dominic, including citing Popes Leo X., Pius V., Gregory XIII., Sixtus V., Clement VIII., Alexander VII., Innocent XI., of Clement XI., of Innocent XIII. , of Benedict XIII., Pius IX. and Leo XIII.)