THE ROSARY

PRAYER OF THE POPES

INNOCENT  XI

 1676-1689        

  ALEXANDER VII  

  1655-1667        

       URBAN VIII            

          1623-1644            

             PAUL V          

    1605-1621           

   GREGORY XIV    

     1590-1591                 

       SIXTUS V         

     1585-1590                 

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“We feel we can experience Her presence and Her special protection and the Mercy of the LORD that She is able to obtain for us. We can say that calling on Mary by praying Her ROSARY is the major way to Her.”

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The story that the ROSARY was given to St Dominic through revelation of the Blessed Virgin and was employed during the crusade against the Albigenses, was later accepted by Leo X., Pius V., Gregory XIII.,Sixtus V.,Alexander VII.,Innocent XI. Clement XI.

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"The ROSARY, the multiplier of Christians.”

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"The ROSARY is a treasure of Graces"

*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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“…the destruction of sin and the procurer of the Grace and Glory of GOD.”         

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“Remembering how fruitfully to our religion was instituted by the Blessed Dominic, founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, inspired by the Holy Ghost, as it is believed, the devotion of the most holy ‘Psalter’ called ‘of the Rosary of the glorious and ever Virgin Mary,’ the tender Mother of God; and what gifts were conferred,…”

* Dum ineffabilia  (Bull of Jan.30 1586)                                 

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