Our Lady of the Rosary Feast Remembers How Mary Helped Defeat an Army at the Battle of Lepanto! Feast Day October 7

October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary:

Our Lady of the Rosary's True Story. October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. The rosary is a prayer that remembers on key moments from the life of Jesus from the bible with 20 separate mysteries.  Prayers are repeated on beads while a person meditates on Christ's life. 
 They recall the Joyful moments of his Incarnation, Birth, and childhood, the luminous of his life of preaching, the sorrowful of his sufferings and death, and the glorious, his resurrection, pentecost, and Mary's glories. This powerful prayer calls for the help of the mother of Jesus in life.  According to a Dominican tradition, in 1208 the rosary was given to Saint Dominic in an apparition by the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of Prouille. There was a miraculous defeat of the Albigensian heretics at the battle of Muret in 1213 which legend has attributed to the recitation of the Rosary by Saint Dominic. It is believed that miracles have occurred on many occasions through the faith of those who prayed the rosary in times of special danger. 
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More particularly, the naval victory of Lepanto gained by Don John of Austria over the Turkish fleet on the first Sunday of October in 1571 responded wonderfully to the processions made at Rome on that same day by the members of the Rosary confraternity. St. Pius V thereupon ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary should be made upon that day, and at the request of the Dominican Order Gregory XIII in 1573 allowed this feast to be kept in all churches which possessed an altar dedicated to the Holy Rosary. In 1671 the observance of this festival was extended by Clement X to the whole of Spain, and somewhat later Clement XI after the important victory over the Turks gained by Prince Eugene on 6 August, 1716 (the feast of our Lady of the Snows), at Peterwardein in Hungary, commanded the feast of the Rosary to be celebrated by the universal Church.
A set of "proper" lessons in the second nocturn were conceded by Benedict XIII. Leo XIII has since raised the feast to the rank of a double of the second class and has added to the Litany of Loreto the invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary".

The feast day of October 7th, is in memory of the naval victory of Lepanto gained by Don John of Austria over the Turkish fleet on the first Sunday of October in 1571. This was seen as a miracle due to the prayerful processions made in Rome on that same day by the members of the Rosary confraternity. Pope Saint Pius the fifth thereupon ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary should be made upon that day. Clement XI after the important victory over the Turks gained by Prince Eugene on August 6th, 1716 (the feast of our Lady of the Snows), at Peterwardein in Hungary, commanded the feast of the Rosary to be celebrated by the universal Church.
Pope Leo XIII, added to the Litany of Loreto, of Our Lady, the invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary."
 On this feast, in every church in which the Rosary confraternity has been installed, a plenary indulgence is granted upon certain conditions to all who visit therein the Rosary chapel or statue of Our Lady. This has been called the "Portiuncula" of the Rosary.Text shared from the Catholic Encyclopedia

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