The Rosary, is a certain form of prayer wherein we say fifteen tens or decades of Hail Marys and an Our Father between each ten. While at each of the fifteen tens we recall successively in meditation one of the mysteries of our Redemption. That same lesson for the Feast of the Holy Rosary instructs us that when the Albigensian heresy was ravishing the country of Toulouse, St. Dominic besought the aid of Our Lady and was instructed by her, so tradition tells us, to preach the Rosary among the people as a cure to heresy and sin. From that time forward this kind of prayer was "most wonderfully published abroad and developed by St. Dominic whom different Supreme Pontiffs have in past ages of their apostolic letters declared to be the institutor and author of the very same devotion." That many popes have so said is undoubtedly true, and amongst the rest we have a series of encyclicals, beginning in 1883, issued by Pope Leo XIII, which, while commending this devotion to the faithful in the most earnest terms, assumes that the institution of the Rosary by St. Dominic is a fact that is historically established. Of the remarkable fruits of this devotion and of the extraordinary favours which have been granted to the world, as is piously believed, through this means, something will undoubtedly be said with regards to the FEAST OF THE ROSARY and CONFRATERNITIES OF THE ROSARY.

We will confine ourselves here to the question of its history, a matter which is both in the middle of the eighteenth century and again in recent years has attracted so very much attention.

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