Prayer to Our Lady of a Happy Life and Our Lady of a happy

Death
Our Lady of a happy Death, Mother of Jesus and our Mother, with the simplicity of little children we come to
you to entrust to you in our last moments and our death. With Jesus, you have comfortes Saint Joseph, your
spouse at his death. At the foot of the Cross, you have received the last breath of our Savior, your divine Son.
Henceforth we are assured that you are with each of your children with the solicitude of your maternal Heart, to
make him cross the verge of death and to introduce him into eternity.
But, to help us to face in peace this ultimate trial, so rough for our nature, be also for us, Our Lady of a happy
life. Help us, we beseech you, to remain faithful, day after day, to the commitments of our baptism, to the
teachings of the Faith, to the practice of charity. In order to achieve this, we base ourselves, with the certainty of
the hope that does not disappoint, on your all-powerful intercession.
Ooiur lady of a happy Death, receive already our thanksgiving, that we shall repeat forever, and deign continue
to « pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death ». Amen.
This prayer to the Virgin Mary is related to a twelfth century statue venerated in the abbey church of
Fontgombault. We ask Her, to receive the grace of a good Christian death, and we pray for the
conversion of sinners and the healing of the sick.
We use this prayer À prier dans ces temps de tourments et difficultés en tous genres …