The famous President of the Republic of Ecuador, García Moreno, who was assassinated by Freemasons in 1875, was deeply devoted to Our Lady.
One day, while among Irish workers whom he had brought from the United States to set up a mechanical sawmill, he asked them about the religious customs of their country and whether they knew any hymn in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The good Irishmen immediately began to sing. García Moreno listened to them deeply moved. When the hymn ended, he asked:
— You Irishmen, do you love Our Lady very much?
— Yes, sir, with all our hearts — they replied.
— Then, my children — added the President — let us kneel and pray the Rosary, so that you may persevere in the love and service of God.
And all of them, kneeling around the President, prayed the Marian Rosary with great fervor and with eyes filled with tears.
It was in devotion to Our Lady that García Moreno found the strength of that living faith which, before his murderers, placed upon his lips, as a cry of defiance, these memorable words:
“God does not die!”
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