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 Jesus and  His  holy  Mother,  the future victims  of  their  love  and  our sins. I ask  it  through  that  sorrow and anguish  which  filled  thy  soul when the  angel  declared  to  thee that the  life  of  the  Child  Jesus  was sought by  His  enemies,  from  whose impious designs  thou  wert  obliged to fly  with  Him  and  His  blessed Mother into  Egypt. I ask  it  by ill  the  pains,  fatigues  and  toils  of that  long  and  perilous  pilgrimage. I ask  it  by  all  the  sorrows  thou didst endure,  when  in  Egypt  thou wert not  able  even  by  the  sweat  of thy  brow,  to  procure  poor  food  and clothing for  thy  most  poor  family. I ask  it  by  all  the  grief  thou  didst feel each  time  the  Divine  Child asked for  a  morsel  of  bread,  and thou hadst  it  not  to  give  Him. I ask it  by  all  the  solicitude  to  preserve the  Sacred  Child  and  the  Immaculate Mary  during  thy  second journey when  thou  wert  ordered  to