The weekly intelligencer., 1900-03-03
ORIGIN OF THE ROSARY.
Its Use by Christians, Mohammrdan..
buddhists, Jews, and Others
In Early Times.

The invention Of the rosary has beer
yariously attributed to 81. Albert A,
Orespin, Peter the Hermit, St. Dominic
and Others. OF the latter, the Roman
oreviary Office states that he was ad.
monished by the Blessed Virgin Mary ia
preach the rosary ns special remedy
against heresy and sin" OF the three,
the most probable 10 Peter the Hermit
who, toward the end OF the eleventh
century, travelled through Europe. ex.
horting all Christian princes and peo-
pie to take up the cross in A crusade
against the Saracens, who had closed
the holy sepulcher against them
Peter, who Is credited with introducing
ihe fashion with the hours Of Our
Lady among the crusaders, had nm
doubtedly seen the instrument Of the
rosary in the hands Of the Moham-
medans.
The Mohammedan counts his repeti-
uons-e, g., The absolute glory OF
God" (sS timesl; "The absolute elorv
oil God, the great, with his praise for
ever (once); Praise be to God" Isa
times Extolled be his dignity Ther.
Is no Deity, but him" (once); God IL
most great" (33 times); God Is mos,
great in greatness, and praise be to Goa
IN abundance" (onee) with a string OF
beads called seb'hhsb or soob'bbab
lhe beads are 90 in number, and have a
marx between 80, made Of aloe or other
oaoriierous or precious woods. or of
coral, or Of certain fruit stones. ss.ds
ele. At the death of Moos.lim fickee
uakir), as many as 50 say the seb'bbab
OF rosary, upon rosary Of 900 beads
each about the size Of pigeon's-ego
'hrlce repeating 1000 times: "There h
no Deity but Cod" and other eiacnI.-
uons 50 or 100 times. The Mobam.
medan probably derived the use Of This
appliance from the Hindoo Reman.
uJas and other sectaries. who carr
rosaries Of seeds of the tulasi fbo,y
oasll), or Of lotus; or the Buddhist
as those Of Thibet, who tell the bssSs
OF their large rosarles, as they repest
'ne words; "Om name padme boum"
- oh' the Jewel Of the lotus"-a phrase
whieh thousands OF men repeat ali their
ilves without understandino II, meon
ing but believing that they are insnr
ing lor themselves happy future.
or yet again, perhaps from tho leu.
VINO have chaDlgt oaIlod n, -
cot. ''1n nera-
Inc use Of such strings OF bead, n.
ah aid to devotion was an ancient usara
y. n The east Bonomi, In his "Palaceso,
NlheVeh," shows a divinity boldins H.
ms extended left hand chaplet com
pS4 pysed OF large and small beads plaeed
alternately. Large numbers Of lone
swlhgs OF carnelian beads, all exac,is
', alike IN form, have been found with
,U IUoiS aud pottery during excayation,.,
,ianun' ,,i In a Babylonlan PRAYER oc.
'ur ' the words; 20, my God ,svsn
lmeS seven are my transvressIons mr
are before me-" whIcs
we're we're TO be repeated ten times Ana
'gaini May thy heart, like the hsas,
y tne mother of the setting day M i,s
=, race return" to be repeated five times
u me use Of the rosary by the ortbodor
Of the east differs wIdelv
T., rom that Of western Cbris,enSom
ne Greek priests are required 10 "a
gay ~ hyrie eleisons thrice every dav
n mo 'nese they count of on their head,
ne oopts use a string of Al beads
aying' 20, my Lord, have mercvI"
! umesi Others count by their fnrer,
ne separated Copis and Armenisns
cry oi'en use rosaries exactly ,hs
ame as the Mohammedans, witSou,
ross but most Of those of the GrssLs
nd the Russians have crosses a.
lched TO them, All the separated east.
rus iold an Anglican clergyman thai
iey only used the rosary TO count thsIr
roa'rauons and kyrles, or else to bsys
'meihing In their hands while tallino
thinking.- Reliquary.