This memory of Marian devotional source is connected with the victory of Lepanto (1571), which arrested the great expansion of the Ottoman Empire . St. Pius V attributed to the historical event perghiera that the Christian people had sent in the form of the Virgin of the Rosary. (Aug. Roma)
The Rosary is, born from the love of Christians for Mary in medieval times, perhaps at the time of the Crusades in the Holy Land. The object used to recite this prayer, that the crown is of very ancient origin. The Eastern hermits used stones to count the number of vocal prayers. In medieval monasteries lay brothers, exempt from the recitation of the Psalter for the lack of familiarity with Latin, by integrating their practices of piety with the recitation of "Our Fathers," which count for S. Bede had suggested the adoption of a series of beads strung on a string. Then, it tells a legend, the Madonna herself, appearing in S. Dominic, showed him in reciting the rosary a powerful weapon to defeat the Albigensian heresy.
Thus was born the devotion to the rosary, that the meaning of a wreath of roses offered to Mary. Promoters of this devotion was in fact the Dominicans, who is also the father of the confraternity of the Rosary. It was a Dominican pope, St. Pius V, the first to officially recommend and encourage the recitation of the Rosary, which quickly became a popular devotion to excellence, a kind of compendium of the people "to be recited in the evening, at home, since it lends itself well to give a spiritual orientation to the familiar liturgy. Those
"Hail Mary" recited in the family are animated by a genuine spirit of prayer: "And as it propagates the sweet and monotonous cadence of" Ave Maria ", the father or mother of a family feel to the concerns family or the child waiting to problems that already put the older children. This set of aspects of family life suffers, then the lighting of the saving mystery of Christ, and it is natural to entrust it with ease to the mother of the miracle of Cana and the whole of redemption "(Schillebeeckx).
The celebration of the festival today, created by St. Pius V to commemorate the victory in 1571 against the Turkish fleet at Lepanto (initially it was said "S. Maria della Vittoria), on 7 October that year fell on a Sunday, was extended in 1716 to the Church universal, and fixed permanently to the October 7 from St. Pius X in 1913. The "feast of the Most Holy Rosary", as it was called before the calendar reform of 1960, summed up in a certain sense, all the feasts of Our Lady and all the mysteries of Jesus, whom Mary was associated with meditation than fifteen times the life of Mary and Jesus
Author: Piero Bargellini
From: www.santiebeati.it
The Rosary is, born from the love of Christians for Mary in medieval times, perhaps at the time of the Crusades in the Holy Land. The object used to recite this prayer, that the crown is of very ancient origin. The Eastern hermits used stones to count the number of vocal prayers. In medieval monasteries lay brothers, exempt from the recitation of the Psalter for the lack of familiarity with Latin, by integrating their practices of piety with the recitation of "Our Fathers," which count for S. Bede had suggested the adoption of a series of beads strung on a string. Then, it tells a legend, the Madonna herself, appearing in S. Dominic, showed him in reciting the rosary a powerful weapon to defeat the Albigensian heresy.
Thus was born the devotion to the rosary, that the meaning of a wreath of roses offered to Mary. Promoters of this devotion was in fact the Dominicans, who is also the father of the confraternity of the Rosary. It was a Dominican pope, St. Pius V, the first to officially recommend and encourage the recitation of the Rosary, which quickly became a popular devotion to excellence, a kind of compendium of the people "to be recited in the evening, at home, since it lends itself well to give a spiritual orientation to the familiar liturgy. Those
"Hail Mary" recited in the family are animated by a genuine spirit of prayer: "And as it propagates the sweet and monotonous cadence of" Ave Maria ", the father or mother of a family feel to the concerns family or the child waiting to problems that already put the older children. This set of aspects of family life suffers, then the lighting of the saving mystery of Christ, and it is natural to entrust it with ease to the mother of the miracle of Cana and the whole of redemption "(Schillebeeckx).
The celebration of the festival today, created by St. Pius V to commemorate the victory in 1571 against the Turkish fleet at Lepanto (initially it was said "S. Maria della Vittoria), on 7 October that year fell on a Sunday, was extended in 1716 to the Church universal, and fixed permanently to the October 7 from St. Pius X in 1913. The "feast of the Most Holy Rosary", as it was called before the calendar reform of 1960, summed up in a certain sense, all the feasts of Our Lady and all the mysteries of Jesus, whom Mary was associated with meditation than fifteen times the life of Mary and Jesus
Author: Piero Bargellini
From: www.santiebeati.it
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