Pope praying the Rosary

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               THE ROSARY            

        PRAYER OF THE POPES  

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This presentation is based mainly on resources available through the Internet and contains, at this stage, 36 names of Popes who spoke about the ROSARY. The list starts with H.H. Pope Leo XIV and ends with Pope Urban IV in the 13th century.

Pope Leo 14 praying the Rosary

   LEO XIV       

    2025-                

Pope Leo XIV begins every day with the Rosary and ends it before an image of Mary he has carried since seminary.

Pope Francis praying the Rosary

 2013-2025         

FRANCIS       

 “Do you pray the Rosary every day?”

“The Holy Rosary sustains us in the battle against the evil one and his accomplices.”

Pope Benedict 16 praying the Rosary

     BENEDICT XVI      

 2005-2013         

“Dear young people, I invite you to value this traditional Marian prayer which helps us to understand better the central moments of Salvation realized by CHRIST.”

“The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice banished to the past. Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for JESUS and His Mother, Mary.” 

St John Paul II holding a red beaded rosary with a crucifix, and praying with his eyes closed.

ST JOHN PAUL II

     1978-2005      

“The  ROSARY  is my favorite prayer.”

“Pray, pray much. Say the ROSARY everyday.”

“I earnestly urge Pastors to pray the Rosary and to teach people in their Christian communities how to pray it.”

“How beautiful is the family that recites the ROSARY every evening.” 

*Apostolic Letter  ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE  (16 October 2002)                                              

Pope John Paul I dressed in traditional religious garments, wearing a red robe and an ornate gold vestment, seated on an elaborately carved golden throne, holding a cross necklace.

Aug.26-Sept.28 1978    

 JOHN PAUL I

“The ROSARY, a simple and easy prayer,  helps me to be a child again, and I am not  ashamed of it at all.”

“The crisis of the ROSARY doesn't come first. What  comes first is the crisis in prayer in general today.    People are all taken up in material interests; they think little about the soul...For the interior life, and for …the tender colloquy with GOD,…it is too tiring to find a few minutes of time. What a pity !”

*MY ROSARY By Albino Cardinal Luciani (Pope John Paul I