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Rosary (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 10

Preferred form: Rosary

Used for/see from:

Dominican Rosary

See also:

Broader heading: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Devotion to
Broader heading: Beads Religious aspects Catholic Church
Broader heading: Prayer Catholic Church
Rosaries (Prayer books)

Notes

Concise dict. theol. ("popular Western prayer said out of devotion to Our Lady")

Encyc. dict. rel. ("Rosary: known also as the Dominican Rosary, is a Marian prayer")

New Cath. encyc. ("usually refers to the so-called Dominican Rosary")

New Schaff-Herzog ("the complete, or Dominican, Rosary")

Here are entered works on the Catholic devotion to the Virgin Mary that consists of a system of prayers and meditations (called "mysteries") to be recited while holding a chain of beads that is used as a counter. Prayer books in which the mysteries of the rosary appear in conjunction with psalms or other scriptural passages, meditations, or illustrations are entered under Rosaries (Prayer books).

Note under Rosaries (Prayer books)