"Let the reader now couple with the reference to the reformation under Wycliffe and Huss, the following which appeared in the Tablet of October 1, 1887.
It was published beneath the Papal arms, and was entitled, “a letter
of our Holy Father Pope Leo XIII the Bishops of Italy, on the Rosary:
--Since God has called us to govern His church on earth,
--we have sought to use every possible means that we deemed suitable,
--for the sanctification of souls, and the extension of the reign of Jesus Christ.
None, however, can be surprised that we showed special care for the Italian people, for our Divine Master Jesus Christ chose, from out all the world,
--Italy to be the seat of His Vicar on earth, and in His providential designs appointed Rome to be the capital of the Catholic world.
Above all,
--in this city of Rome, where Christ’s Vicar has his See,......we feel a still greater desire to call upon the Mother of God, and to ask her
help. And our most lively and sure hope is placed in the Queen of the Rosary, who has shown herself, since she has been invoked by that title, so ready to help the church and Christian peoples in their necessities.
Why in this hour of need should we not behold again such marvels of the power and goodness of the August Virgin, for the good of the church and its Head, and of the whole Christian world, if the faithful only revive on their part the magnificent examples of piety given by their forefathers under similar circumstances." E.J. Waggoner
