Pope praying the Rosary

THE ROSARY

             PRAYER OF THE POPES                 

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Pope Gregory XIII

      GREGORY XIII 

 1566-1572        

Pope St Pius V

   St PIUS V  

 1566-1572        

Pope Julius III

         JULIUS III       

    1550-1555          

Pope Adrian VI

      ADRIAN VI      

     1522-1523                 

Pope Alexander 6

 ALEXANDER VI  

     1492-1503               

Pope Innocent VIII

 INNOCENT VIII  

     1484-1492                

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

Gregory XIII changed the name of the Feast of  Our Lady of Victory instituted by St Pius V on October 7 to the Feast of “Our Lady of the ROSARY” and transferred it to the first Sunday of October in 1573.

*MONET APOSTOLUS (April 1, 1573). Bull instituting the solemnity of the  Feast of the Hoy Rosary in memory of the victory at the battle of LEPANTO.                                    

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“…that simple way of praying and beseeching GOD, accessible to all and wholly pious, which is called the ROSARY, or Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary...”

*CONSUEVERUNT ROMANI, Encyclical on the Rosary (Sept. 17 1569)                                   

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The Rosary is

“ the Glory of the Church”

…“the Tree of Life.”

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"The ROSARY is  the scourge  of the  devil."

…”It was through the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the zealous preaching of this devotion (the holy ROSARY) by Saint Dominic that the whole order of the world was preserved.”

* ILLIUS QUI PERFECTA CARITAS EST, June 13 1495.

* SPLENDOR PATERNÆ GLORIÆ, Bull  of Feb. 26, 1491.                                

*(second Bull on the ROSARY…)

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"We grant to one and all the enrolled brothers and sisters, truly penitent, who carry the ROSARY with them now and throughout life, an indulgence of one hundred years and one hundred quarantines; and for those enrolled in this same confraternity (of the Most Holy ROSARY, we grant, mercifully in the LORD, an indulgence of five years and five quarantines for pronouncing the Name of JESUS at the end of each Hail Mary."