Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

Today we are back with another bonus episode because we are beginning a new phase.

This is phase five, which is called Building Up the Decades.

And I'm very, very grateful that we are joined today by Dr. Edward Sri.

Oh, thanks so much for having me, Father.

I think I've maybe mentioned this to you in one of our previous conversations,

particularly early on in some of the initial episodes.

I was pulling from a number of your books that you've written on the Rosary or Mysteries of the Rosary.

You're obviously somebody who has

spent time studying it and its biblical roots and marrying devotion. And so just before we kind of get

into maybe the main body of our episode as part of an introduction to your own background with the

rosary, do you have any maybe favorite stories or kind of about the rosary in general for

saints or out there or from your own personal life that you can give a bit of a testimony about?

Oh, I mean, there's, of course, the famous battle, you know, of Lepanto where the rosary

feast day came from. Maybe a fun story that's not as well known. I'll share and then I can give a story from my own life.

But story from JP2.

You know, JP2 was in the underground seminary and they were looking, you know, for people.

And the Nazis came in and invaded his house.

And, you know, he hid in one closet and he was praying.

And it was the one closet where that was the only thing that they didn't search.

And they would have found him.

I mean, the world would be such a different place.

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