It was this beautiful prayer that Our Lady wanted to teach again to the four girls from a poor Spanish village, Garabandal. Why is it that almost 700 years later, there was a need to teach this prayer again? Why, when the same prayer had been given to Saint Dominic in such detail? Why did Our Lady choose four children, with little training, to teach how to pray this prayer? Our Lady certainly knew of the approach of the Second Vatican Council. For the first time, John XXIII proposed holding a Council for a group of cardinals, on January 24, 1959, in a Benedictine monastery. This occurred two and a half years before the events of Garabandal. Why, then, did Our Lady not choose some Cardinals, Bishops or Pope John XIII himself for this mission?

In fact, over the course of several centuries, Our Lady has always wanted to convey the message of the Rosary to several children and relatively young people, and usually with little schooling. In Lourdes, through Bernardete, in Fátima through Jacinta, Francisco and Lúcia, and now in Garabandal through Mari Cruz, Jacinta, Mari Loli and Conchita Gonzalez. In Lourdes, Bernardete always said the rosary before the apparition of Our Lady and later Our Lady helped Bernardete in reciting the rosary, passing the beads of the rosary with her fingers, without reciting in a voice, and when she reached the part of the "Glória" prayer , Our Lady bowed her head in sign of praise and respect for Almighty God, thus participating in the total recitation of the rosary.

In Fátima, the Mother of God recommended and used the recitation of the Rosary in each of the apparitions, asking that a new phrase be added to the rosary: ​​"O my Jesus, forgive me and deliver me from the fire of hell, take souls to heaven especially those that need it most. " Apparently the world did not understand the importance of these messages. Our Lady felt the need to come again to make known the importance of reciting the Rosary. Could it be that Garabandal's purpose was to give enough emphasis and reflection on the Rosary before the wonderful Second Vatican Council was held? Regarding the records that took place in Garabandal, there is no precise data on the days when Our Lady prayed the Rosary with the seer girls of Garabandal. What we do know is that this happened regularly and that it was normally before the apparition occurred. We know for example that on the 2nd of July, the first apparition of Our Lady in Garabandal, the girls recited the Rosary, but there are not many details about how everything was done. On the 4th of July, the girls recited the Rosary in the Parish Church, shortly before the apparition of Our Lady. On the 29th of July, we know that Our Lady asked the visionary girls for the crowd, present there that day, to participate in the recitation of the Rosary. On a certain day, Mari Loli and Jacinta were reciting the Rosary, they were going at the end of the first decade, when they were ecstatic, and after being ecstatic they continued their recitation. On July 31, it is known that Our Lady also participated in the recitation of the Rosary. After the ecstasy was over, Mari-Loli informed those present that Our Lady taught them to say prayers at the right time, and it was often Our Lady herself who recited the "Avé Maria" prayer together with them, just to correct them and teach them to pray properly. This was the first observation that there was actually a verbal teaching regarding the recitation of the Rosary.

On August 3rd, 1961, one of the girls started Rosário before going into ecstasy. In the middle of the first decade, Loli and Jacinta were also ecstatic. In this ecstasy, Our Lady appeared with the Child Jesus on her lap, the girls all full of joy wanted to place him in her arms and for that reason the Rosary had not been prayed in its entirety. After taking the Baby Jesus and having all the parties that normally take place with babies and young children, the sighted girls went down to the parish church where they later finished the recitation of the Rosary which had meanwhile been interrupted for the reasons given previously. On August 5, Conchita was leading one of the recitations of the Rosary in ecstasy, asking Our Lady why Mari Cruz, her companion, was not present at that moment. We know that that night, Mari Cruz was not present, because she was forced by her parents to go to bed earlier. Our Lady always respected the parents' decision. It seems strange to us adults, all these successive interruptions that the visionary girls had with their prayers: the sudden entrance in ecstasy during the recitation, conversation with Our Lady on the most diverse subjects, new redirection to the prayers that had meanwhile been interrupted, attention to the Child Jesus, etc. For us adults, all of this would be a distraction. But for the young girls participating, the change of context, from our world to the supernatural world, was done in a natural and simple way, as if it were an extension of their prayers. Taking into account the intense attention that the girls had in the apparitions, their participation in these ecstasies, they were beyond doubt, a form of prayer and no one was indifferent to all this spiritual experience, which was characterized by a relaxed communication with this special visit from Heaven. 

An interesting point occurred on the 6th of August, when at night the visionary girls recited the Rosary. Their voices become angelic, modulated to the rhythm of the recitation, slowly and precisely and with the utmost attention always present That day and after having completed their ecstatic prayers, they left that state shortly afterwards and went to the parish church to pray a "season [1]". When the visionary girls said a prayer, without being in a state of ecstasy, it was possible to verify that their voices were no longer so modulated, they no longer had that special tone and the same rhythm.