SACRED PRAYER O! ADORABLE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST DYING ON THE GALLOWS TRUE FOR OUR SINS. / O! HOLY CROSS OF JESUS SEE ME IN MY THOUGHTS / O! HOLY CROSS OF CHRIST WARD OFF FROM ME ALL WEAPONS OF DANGER. / O! HOLY CROSS OF CHRIST WARD OFF FROM ME ALL THINGS THAT ARE EVIL. / O! HOLY CROSS OF CHRIST PROTECT ME FROM MY ENEMIES. / O! HOLY CROSS / WARD OFF FROM ME ALL DANGEROUS DEATH / GIVE ME ALWAYS LIFE. / O! CRUCIFIED JESUS OF NAZARETH. / HAVE MERCY ON ME / NOW AND FOREVER / IN THE HONOUR OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST / AND IN THE HONOUR OF HIS SACRED PASSION / AND IN THE HONOUR OF HIS HOLY RESURRECTION / AND HIS GOD-LIKE ASCENSION / WHICH / HE LIKES TO BRING ME RIGHT INTO HEAVEN / TRUE AS JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY / AND THE THREE WISE KINGS BROUGHT THEIR OFFERINGS ON THE 13 TH DAY / TRUE AS JESUS CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED ON MOUNT CALVARY ON GOOD FRIDAY / TRUE THAT NICODEMUS AND JOSEPH WHO TOOK OUR LORD DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND BURIED HIM. / AND TRUE AS HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN! SO THE HONOUR OF JESUS WILL KEEP ME FROM MY ENEMIES / VISIBLE / AND INVISIBLE NOW / AND FOREVER. / O! LORD JESUS CHRIST HAVE MERCY ON ME / MARY AND JOSEPH, PRAY FOR ME / O! LORD JESUS CHRIST, / THROUGH THY OWN SUFFERING FOR TRULY THY SOUL WAS PARTING OUT FROM THIS SINFUL WORLD, / GIVE GRACE THAT I MAY CARRY MY CROSS PATIENTLY / WITHOUT DREAD AND FEAR / WHEN I SUFFER / AND WITHOUT COMPLAINING / AND THAT THROUGH THY SUFFERINGS / I MAY ESCAPE ALL DANGERS NOW AND FOREVERMORE / AMEN. NOTE: THIS PRAYER WAS FOUND IN THE TOMB OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE YEAR 803 AND WAS SENT BY THE POPE TO EMPEROR CHARLES ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE TO BATTLE AND HE SENT IT TO ST. MICHAEL IN FRANCE WHOEVER READS OR WEARS THIS PRAYERS SHALL NEVER DIE A SUDDEN DEATH. BE BURNED, DROWNED NOR ANY POISON HAVE EFFECT ON HIM. HE WILL NEVER BE A PRISONER OF WAR; NOR BE VANQUISHED. WHEN A WOMAN LABOURS, LET HER WEAR IT ON HER RIGHT SIDE AND SHE WILL DELIVER SAFELY AND WHEN THE CHILD IS BORN, PIN THIS PRAYER ON HIS RIGHT SIDE HE SHALL NOT BE TROUBLED WITH ANY MISFORTUNE, AND BE SAFELY PRESERVED OF 82 ACCIDENTS.