PRAYER OF THE POPES

THE ROSARY

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GREGORY XIII

1572-1585

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

*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.

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.

St PIUS V

1566-1572

“…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)

JULIUS III

The Rosary is

“ the Glory of the Church”

…“the Tree of Life.”

1550-1555

ADRIAN VI

"The ROSARY is the scourge of the devil."

1522-1523

ALEXANDER VI

…”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.”

1492-1503

* ILLIUS QUI PERFECTA CARITAS EST, June 13 1495.

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

*(second Bull on the ROSARY…)

INNOCENT VIII

1484-1492

"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."