THE ROSARY

PRAYER OF THE POPES

BENEDICT XIV

    1740-1758       

BENEDICT XIII

  1724-1730        

   INNOCENT XIII     

1721-1724        

        CLEMENT  XI   

1720-1721        

   INNOCENT  XII  

    1691-1700              

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“… this admirable and truly heavenly  instrument, the ROSARY.”

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Mary recommended to St. Dominic the preaching of the ROSARY to the people, giving him to understand that this prayer would be an exceptionally efficacious succor against heresies and vices.

*PRETIOSUS,bull of May 26, 1727                                           

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"The ROSARY had been instituted by St. Dominic to appease the anger of GOD and to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Clement XI, has decreed that the Blessed Mother of GOD should every year be especially honored in her ROSARY by the whole Church.

*By a Bull of October 3, 1716, Clement XI has directed the observance of the feast of the ROS (October 7) by all Christendom and inscribed it on the universal calendar.                                      

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Acknowledged  by Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Letter “Adiutricem”, 28 to have spread the devotion of the Rosary throughout the countries of the East.

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