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The Rose Garland. The popularity of the rosary is growing in the modern world, along with increased devotion to the Virgin Mary. The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of ...

This included priests dancing in the streets, communal rosaries at the break between parades, little kids on tall stands ready to catch beads, and lots of laughter ... For example, our Catholic ...

My dear sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus: We have come to this month of October, which in the life of the Church is referred to as the Month of the Most Holy Rosary ... How many beads have been ...

Catholics are invited to contemplate the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a special way on ... Lady of Sorrows through the seven sorrows rosary, or chaplet. OSMM provides general ...

CATHOLICS are invited to contemplate the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a special way on September 15 ... the intercession of Our Lady of Sorrows through the seven sorrows rosary, or ...

On October 7, 1571 at the naval battle of Lepanto near Greece, the powerful Turkish army was vanquished by the Christian forces that were backed by the unceasing Rosary crusades ... extended the feast ...

A local Catholic woman told her priest that visions had begun with rosary prayer beads ... endured in her earthly life. Mary’s earthly sorrows are depicted by seven swords piercing her flaming ...