All ye holy Angels and Archangels keep us and defend us. Amen.
O good and tender Mother! Thou shalt ever be our love and our hope.
A Prayer in time of Temptation.
O Divine Mother! Send thy Angels to defend me, and drive the cruel enemy from me.
These prayers were approved by the Archbishop of Tours, and the Bishops of Bayonne and Nantes in the year 1863.
ORIGIN OF THE MIRACULOUS PRAYER.
A pious priest of the Diocese of Bayonne, the Abbé Cestac, is the founder of two Religious Congregations in the aforesaid city, viz., the Servants of Mary, who devote themselves to the work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, though not cloistered: and the Bernardines, who are contemplatives. To one of these devout Religious the Blessed Virgin deigned to make the following communication, which is contained in a letter from the Abbé Cestac to M. Dupont of Tours.