Santo Rosario

The Holy Rosary is a traditional Catholic prayer that seeks to honor the
Virgin. It is composed of two elements: mental prayer and verbal prayer.

In the Holy Rosary, mental prayer is nothing other than meditation on
the main Mysteries or facts of the life, Death and Glory of Jesus Christ and of
his Blessed Mother.

The verbal prayer consists of reciting fifteen decades (full Rosary) or five
dozens of Hail Marys, each decade headed by an Our Father,
while we meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary.

The word Rosario means “Crown of Roses”. Our Lady has revealed to
several people who every time they pray the Hail Mary are giving Ella a
beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes a crown of roses. The Rose
is the queen of flowers, and thus the Rosary is the rose of all devotions, and
therefore the most important of all.

The object made of beads that is used to
recite this prayer.

History of the Most Holy Rosary
The Prayer of the Holy Rosary has taken a long time to form as it is now
we know. It was not devised at a specific moment, but is the result of a
long evolution.

Its practice dates back to the ninth century, when Christians who could not read what
used to recite Hail Marys in honor of Mary, the Blessed Mother of God.
Its use was lost at the end of the Middle Ages, but during the fifteenth century it went away.
recovering.

The Holy Church received the Rosary in its present form in the year 1214 from a
miraculous way: when Our Lady appeared to Saint Dominic and told him
given as a powerful weapon for the conversion of heretics and other
sinners of those times. Since then his devotion spread
quickly around the world with incredible and miraculous results.

It is worth remembering that, among the various apparitions of the Blessed Virgin,
She has always insisted on the Prayer of the Rosary. This is how, for example, the
May 13, 1917, in a town in Portugal called Cova de Iría, the Most Holy
Our Lady vehemently insists on praying the Rosary to the three little shepherds, in a
of his many appearances.

The Prayer of the Rosary gained strength in Christianity after the Battle of Lepanto in
1571. On October 7, 1571 the Christian League, commanded by Don Juan de
Austria, faced the Muslim fleet in the Gulf of Corinth, near the
Greek city of Lepanto. Before the combat the Christian troops prayed
devoutly the Holy Rosary to defeat an enemy superior in number and
Warships.

In the year 2002 Pope Saint John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries. With
Therefore, there are currently 20 mysteries in the Holy Rosary.

The mysteries of the Rosary
Joyful Mysteries (Monday and Saturday)
The Incarnation of the Son of God.
The Visitation of Our Lady to her cousin Saint Elizabeth.
The Birth of the Son of God in the portal of Bethlehem.
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
The Child Jesus lost and found in the Temple.

Sorrowful Mysteries (Tuesday and Friday)
The Prayer in the Garden.
The scourging of Jesus tied to the column.
The Crowning with Thorns.
Jesus carrying the Cross on his way to Calvary.
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus.

Glorious Mysteries (Wednesday and Sunday)
The Resurrection of the Son of God.
The Ascension of the Lord to Heaven.
The coming of the Holy Spirit.
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
The Coronation of Mary as Queen and Lady of all creation.

Luminous Mysteries (Thursday)
Baptism in the Jordan.
The wedding at Cana.
The Announcement of the Kingdom of God.
The Transfiguration.
The establishment of the Eucharist.