Fuesteis can que con desvelo
a la Iglesia defendida * * *" (p. 35).

The can is referred to here because while the mother was pregnant it
(the foetus, el feto) was manifested to her in the form of a dream
and in the figure of a dog with a lighted ax in his mouth (p. 6).

Promises of the Virgin

The Novena to the Virgin of the Rosary begins with an enumeration of
the Fifteen Promises of the Virgin to the devotees of the Rosary. In
the first she promises to grant whatever special grace is asked of
her. He who prays the rosary will be converted if he is a sinner,
and in any event will be admitted to life eternal. "All that is asked
of her will be secured quickly" (p. 4).

The list of miracles performed by the image of the Virgin of the
Rosary is endless and occupies all the pages from 37 to 90 of the
Novena. Not only does the image perform miracles but her skirt as
well as the oil that burns in her lamp, and the water where her hands
are washed, or any rosary or object touched by her skirt or her image
also accomplish miracles (p. 9).

In the Novena of Saint Joseph (Manila, 1910), after reminding
him of his relation with God, it is affirmed that "there is no
protection more efficacious for securing all that is asked than his"
(p. 7). "Necessitating everything from the divine favor it is sure that
none shall fail who confident will seek the protection of Saint Joseph"
(p. 29). "Saint Joseph assists the needy, gives health to the sick,
consoles the afflicted, sends rains, freezes ice, multiplies fruits,
favors in storms, on the roads, and among the drowning * * *. Finally
there shall be none who trusting in the same will not receive that
which is asked."

To the Holy Child of Cebu, an image which was left in that city by
the companions of Magellan, went the Cebuanos before their conversion
to Catholicism to ask rain "carrying him in a procession to the
seashore and submerging it in the water and thus secure the rain that
they needed so much." (Novena al Santisimo Nombre, Malabon, 1895,
p. 5). Nevertheless, the immersion in the sea water is a recourse
which may be said to be resorted to only in extreme cases because a
verse in that novena says:

Si acaso no conseguian
las aguas porque os rogaban,
al mar, Oh Nino, os llevaban,
y en las aguas os metian;
y asi el agua que pedian,
otorgaba vuestro amor" (p. 29).

If they failed to ge