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3 unusual facts about rosary


Holy Rosary

Rosary, a set of prayer beads used in a traditional Roman Catholic devotion

Rosary-based prayers

The Franciscan Crown consists of seven decades of Hail Marys, each preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be, and completed by two more Hail Marys after the 7th decade to complete the number 72 which is thought to be the age of Mary at the time of her Assumption.

The rosary as prayed by the Bridgettine order comprises 7 Our Fathers (to honour the joys and sorrows of the Blessed Virgin), and 63 Hail Marys, one for each (presumed) year of her life before the Assumption.


Albertus Magnus High School

Albertus Magnus High School is administered by the Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary Sparkill, New York, which was founded on May 6, 1876 in New York City by Mother Catherine Mary Antoninus Thorpe.

Alfonso Rivarola

In 1638, he helped with the creation of a theatrical tableu, a mixed metaphor of pagan and Catholic themes, set up in a piazza near the Palazzo de' Marchesi Bevilaqua in Ferrara; the occasion was the celebration Coronation of Mary, as the Virgin of the Rosary and the arrival of the new cardinal Ciriaco Rocci.

Antonio Ermolao Paoletti

Among his many frescoes is the main altarpiece depicting the Madonna of the Rosary with St Anthony and St Materno (1863) for the parish church of Melara.

Banga, Aklan

Devotees practise the 14 Stations of the Cross, pray the rosary, and light candles at each stop while climbing towards the peak where a 40m cross, sometimes lighted, is visible from due north to Kalibo and the nearby sea.

Breviary Hymns of the Rosary

The Breviary Hymns of the Rosary were the four hymns that were sung during the Liturgy of the Hours for the Feast of the Rosary.

Carpoforo Tencalla

About 1675 he decorated the apse surrounding the main altar of the Dominican church in Vienna with two historic paintings of Christian victories, both attributed to power of the Rosary: 1) the Battle of Muret (1213) and 2) the Battle of Lepanto (1571).

Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence

The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary), often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, is a small chapel built for Dominican sisters in the town of Vence on the French Riviera.

Charles Owen Rice

During seven decades of priesthood, Rice was pastor of Pittsburgh congregations including St. Joseph's in Natrona, Pennsylvania, Immaculate Conception in Washington, Pennsylvania, Holy Rosary in Homewood, and St. Ann's in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania.

Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca

San Esteban is also the canonical seat of the Dominican Fraternity of Stmo Christ of the Good Death which makes its penitential procession in Salamanca at dawn on Good Friday, and the Royal and Pontifical Sacrament Confraternity of Mary, Mother of God of the Rosary and St. Pius V fraternity of glory, restarted recently after years of inactivity.

Cornelian Dende

Cornelian Dende OFM (Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1915-31 August 1996) also known as "Father Justin," was a Polish-American Franciscan priest, director of "The Rosary Hour," a Polish-language weekly radio program from Buffalo, New York.

Crinoid

Fossilised crinoid columnal segments extracted from limestone quarried on Lindisfarne, or found washed up along the foreshore, were threaded into necklaces or rosaries, and became known as St. Cuthbert's beads.

Eugene Buechel

After another year of formation (tertianship) in Brooklyn, Ohio, Father Büchel returned to the Lakota in August 1907, first as a teacher at Holy Rosary Mission School in Pine Ridge, and then in 1908 as its superior for eight years.

Feast of the Rosary

The Feast of the Rosary (German: Rosenkranzfest) is a 1506 oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, now in the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

Felipe Cardeña

Vittorio Sgarbi wrote that "Felipe Cardeña proposes the amateur technique of collage pursuing a repetitive and obsessive iconography as the daily rosary of a cloistered nun".

Foiano della Chiana

Inside the church of San Michele Arcangelo, on the second south altar, a Madonna of the Rosary by Lorenzo Lippi and on the third north altar, and enameled terracotta of the Ascension by della Robbia and son Giovanni around 1495-1500.

Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski

He was Catholic, despite the "Jewish-sounding" moniker (he carried a rosary and a bible).

Holy Rosary Cathedral

Holy Rosary Cathedral, Semarang (Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary), a Roman Catholic church in Semarang

Indulgentiarum Doctrina

# Recitation of the Rosary or the Akathist in a church or oratory, or in a family, a religious community, an association of the faithful and, in general, when several people come together for an honourable purpose.

Jozef Mazur

His paintings can also be found in St. Adalbert's Basilica, Blessed Trinity, the Polish National Cathedral Holy Mother of the Rosary, St. John Gualbert's, and Villa Maria Academy.

La Salette of Roxas

A giant rosary with beads made up of cement is situated here, and a shrine for Our Lady of La Salette in a center of a gazeebo.

Luis Concha Córdoba

He was named a monastery chaplain, the prefect of studies and a professor at the seminary of Bogotá, and a professor of religion at Gimnasio Moderno and again at Our Lady of the Rosary University in 1921.

Marian Cross

And in his Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae Pope John Paul II discussed the inspiration of the rosary and how his motto Totus Tuus was inspired by the Mariology in the writings of Saint Louis de Montfort.

Mariology of the popes

He promulgated Marian congregations and supported the rosary culture with 19 Papal bulls.

Methods of praying the rosary

Five methods of praying the rosary are presented within the works of Saint Louis de Montfort, a French Roman Catholic priest and writer of the early 18th century.

Montfort was an early proponent of Mariology, and much of his work is devoted to the subjects of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the rosary.

National Treasures of Japan

Located in the Sendai City Museum, the designated set of items consists of 47 objects: a Roman citizenship document dating from November 1615; a portrait of Pope Paul V; a portrait of Hasekura in prayer following his conversion in Madrid; 19 religious paintings; pictures of saints; ceremonial items such as rosaries; a cross and medals; 25 items of harnesses and clothing such as priests' garments; an Indonesian kris; and a Ceylonese dagger.

Our Lady of Lourdes College Mankon

The six houses are Immaculata, Rosary, Fatima, Bernadette, and the two high school houses Shanahan and Saint Paul for Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth students respectively.

Our Lady of the Cape

Deep Marian Devotion existed in Cap-de-la-Madeleine since 1694 with the institution of the Brotherhood of the Rosary under Father Paul Vachon.

Pietro Baratta

Pietro Baratta is also the probable author of five statues of St Roch, St Antony abbot, the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, St Mattew and St John Baptist on the facade of the Church of Santa Maria at Villa Vicentina (VI), built between 1660 and 1680 on the site of an older building.

Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg|Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary, 1490.

Roman Catholic devotions

The rosary is widely emphasized in Roman Catholic teachings, e.g. Saint Louis de Montfort's widely read book The Secret of the Rosary discusses the religious and mystical views on the rosary from multiple perspectives.

Common examples of Catholic devotions include the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Face of Jesus, the various scapulars, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Seven Sorrows of Mary, novenas to various saints, pilgrimages and devotions to the Blessed Sacrament, and the veneration of saintly images such as among Santeros, etc.

Rosary and scapular

Montfort's philosophy outlined in his book God Alone and his approach to the Rosary discussed in his book Secret of the Rosary have been considered key elements of Marian spirituality by several popes.

Although the Rosary and the Scapular are primarily viewed as devotional elements of Catholicism, traditions and beliefs on the power of Sacramentals have associated specific promises and indulgences with each one.

Rosary devotions and spirituality

Saint Bernadette Soubirous stated that in the first apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes in 1858, the Virgin Mary had a rosary with her and that Bernadette prayed the rosary in her presence.

Roseville College

Diane Purkiss – Author, Editor, Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford (also attended Our Lady of the Rosary Convent and Stuartholme School)

Secret of the Rosary

The book revolves around the views of the rosary and the power of the rosary and consists of a number of short sections called Roses each being about one or two pages long.

Special Duty

As a descendant of the British mare Rosary, Special Duty came from the same branch of Thoroughbred Family 23-b which produced Tim Tam, Winning Colors and Chief's Crown.

Stefano Celesti

For the church of Church of S. Antonio Abate in Sasso, in Gargnano, he painted a Madonna of the Rosary in 1658.

The Gambit

The Gambit's debut album, "Rosary", released in 2007 led him to open shows for international acts such as Delinquent Habits, Rick Ross and Three 6 Mafia.

Vicente Garcia

Last July 12, 1999 his remains were re-interred in the church of the Holy Rosary in the town proper of Padre Garcia (the old seat of the township of Rosario).


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