The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14
THE ROSARY

| iiie liFenIIoH OF the rosary has beer
variously attributed to Saint Albert de
| Crespin, Peter the Hermit, Saint Domi-
mic, and others. Of the latter the Ro-
man Breviary office states that he was
admonished by the Blessed Virgin Mary
TO preach the rosary as a special rene
| dy against heresy and sim" OF the
three, the most probable is Peter the
Hermit, who, towards the end of the
eleventh century travelled through Eu-
rope eXhorting all Christian princes
and people to take up the cross in a
crusade against the Saracens, who had
closed the Holy SepuIchre against
them. Peter. who is credited with in
PRODUCING the fashion with the hours of
Our Lady among the Crusaders, had
undoubtedly seen the instrument of the
rosary in the hands of the Mohamme-
dams.
The Mahammedan counts his repeti-
tions-e. g., 1.-THE absolute glory of
God, the great, with His praise for
ever!" (once); praise be to God!''
(thirty-three times) "Extolled be His
dignity! There is no Deity but Him"
(once); God is most great" thirty
three tines; God is most great in
greatness, and praise be to God in
abundance!" (once)-with string of
beads called seb'hhab or soob'hhab.
The beads are ninety-nine in number,
and have a mark between each thirty
three, made of aloe or other odoriferous
or precious woods, or coral or of GER
tain fruit-stones, seeds, etc At the
death Of Moos-lim f1ckee (fakir), as
many as fifty say the sch hhab, or ro-
sary, upon a rosary of thousand
beads, each about the size of pigeons
egg thrice repeating thousand times
"There is no Deity but God" and other
CALCULATIONS fifty and one hundred
times. The Mohammedan probably de-
rived the use of this appliance from the
Hindu Ramanujas and other secreta-
ries who carry rosares of seeds of the
tulasi (holy basiD or of lotus; or the
Buddhists, as those of Thibet, who tell
the beads of their large rosaries as they
repeat the words "Om name padme
houm''-'O the jewel of the lotus''-a
phrase which thousands of men repeat
all their lives without understanding
its meaning, but believing that they are
for themselves a happy future:
or yet again, perhaps, from the Jews,
who have a chaplet called Meah Bera-
cot.
The use of such strings of beads as
an aid to devotion was an ancient
usage in the east. Bonomi in his pal |
aces Of Nineveh," shows divinity hold
ing in his extended left hand chaplet,
composed of large beads, all exactly
alike in form, have been found with |
tools and pottery during excavations |
at Illahun. In a Babylonian prayer oc- |
eur the words, 20 my God, seven times |
seven are my transgressions, my trans
sressions are before me-" which were to
De repeated ten times. And again.
May thy heart like the heart of the |
mother of the setting day, to it's place
'eturn," to be repeated five times, The
Use of the rosary by the orthodox Chris
ans Of the east differs widely from
hat of western Christendom. The
Creek priests are required to repeat |
orty Kyrie eleisons thrice every day,
md these they count off on their beads.
The Copts use string of forty-one
,eads, saying. 30 my Lord, have mer-
W. fOrty-one times; others count by
helr fingers. The separated Copts and
Armenans very often use rosaries ex-
city the same as the Mohammedans,
Without a cross, but most of those of
he Greeks and the Russians have
ROSES attached to them. All the sepa-
ated easterns told an Anglican clergy
nan that they only used the rosary to
cunt their prostrations and kyries or
lse to have something in their hands
While talking or thinking .-Relquary.