PRAYER TO MARY, QUEEN OF THE ANGELS [ August Queen of Heaven Prayer ] An Indulgence of 500 days. (S. C. Ind., July 8, 1908; S. P. Ap., Mar. 28, 1935) August Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the Angels, thou who hast received from God the power and the mission to crush the head of Satan: we humbly ask thee to send to us thy heavenly legions so that, under thy command, they may pursue the demons let loose upon the earth, fight them everywhere, vanquish their audacity, and drive them back into the abyss. “Who is like unto God?” O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our love and our hope. O divine Mother, send the Holy Angels to defend us [me] and repel far from us [me] the cruel enemy. Holy Angels and Archangels, defend and keep us. Amen. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PRAYER [Please Read] The faithful are asked to say this prayer frequently and fervently. It is of great importance given the following remarkable background: [1] The prayer was dictated by the Blessed Mother herself to the holy and venerable priest, Fr. Louis-Édouard Cestac, on January 13, 1863 as a means to combat the powers of Hell. [2] An exorcism prayer in itself, this is a formidable prayer for “spiritual battle” especially needed for our times when the ravages caused by the fallen angels are everywhere conspicuous and unrelenting. [3] It is a prayer approved by the Church: It was recommended to the faithful by Pope Pius IX, and later indulgenced by both Popes Leo XIII and Pius X. Note on this Translation O Mother of Love, Charity and Mercy, O Mother of Prayer and Stigma, O Mother of Immaculate Conception and Graceful and The Lord is with you and Immanuel, Mary, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we, the Church and France and Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Malta, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Macedonia Croatia and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania and Hungary and Romania and Moldova and Bulgaria and Greece and UK and United States and Canada and Bahamas and Cuba and Haiti and Dominican Republic and Costa Rica and Mexico and Belize and Honduras and Antigua and Antigua and Barbuda and Brazil and El Salvador and Colombia and Chile and Ecuador and Peru and Venezuela and Argentina and Paraguay and Uruguay and Australia and New Zealand and Nauru and Micronesia and Tuvalu and Fiji and Vanuatu and Kiribati and Samoa and India, Maldives, Bhutan, Indonesia, Brunei, Palau, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Korea, Nigeria, Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bahrain, Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Central Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Burundi, Namibia, Lesotho, South Sudan, Madagascar, Tanzania, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Niger, Chad, Tunisia, Senegal, Djibouti, Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Comoros, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Let Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Armenia, Liechtenstein, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, San Marino, Malta, the countries of the European Union, the Vatican City State, and other countries be consecrated.