The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-12
TRACES ROSARY
 ID ITS ORIGIN
PAuLisT FATHERS FINDING iN- TEREsTiNG SUBJECTS IN THEIR "ouEsTioN BOX"
Much Interest Being Manifested in the Mission Now Being Conducted
 at St. Mary's Every Meeting.

The mission being given by the Parlist Fathers at St. Mary's Catho- lic church continues to attract large crowds. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the mission is the "Ques- tion Box" During the week hundreds of questions concerning the doctrines of the church of Rome and her mum erous pious practices were asked through the box placed at the door for that purpose and answered by the missionaries from the platform Among the questions answered last night was. Please explain the origin and the use of the rosary?"
 Tracing the oriign of the rosary back to times and places far remote Father Duffy pointed out that it would be a great mlstake to suppose that the use of beads for counting prayers was peculiar to the Catholic |church, or was of comparatively mod ern date. To determine at what time the name rosary trosenloranz) was introduced Is extremely difficult.
 The speaker explained that history traces the origin of practice of count ing prayers or strings of chips and beads back to the first days of Chris |tianity. This practice had natural development down the centuries, and the rosary as we have it today, is at- tributed to St. Dominic.
 In the Lincoln municipal records of the thirteenth century we not infre-
 q,rently find citizens described as paternosterers, and there can be no doubt that their trade primarily con sisted in the turning, polishing, per forating and mounting of beads for devotional purposes Their calling evidently gave to Paternoster row it's name, for, as Father Duffy pointed out. in the record of an inquest held in 1278, three of the witnesses were described as paternostererss They resided in Paternoster lane, as it was even then called, which lay just under the shadow of the great cathedral and in the devotional center of London. The craftsmen themselves lived there, but the lecturer was inclined to think that their wares were very largely re- tailed by the persons called station ers,' so styled from the fact that they were allowed to occupy certain sta tiops' round St. Paul's Cross and the Cheap. Rosary makers in England do not seem to have been quite so spe- cialized as in France where the mak- CTS of rosaries were divided into four different guilds and companies, ac- cording to the material in which they wrought-4whetler in coral, mother If pearl, bone and horn, amber and je.. or belonging to the more miscellane- ous association engaged largely in metal work and the manufacture of buttons, buckles and rings.
 "Speal0ieng specially of the rosary as used Tn the Roman Catholic church Father Duffy disagreed with the view that the devotional exercise was sim ply initiated from the Mohammedans and introduced into western Europe by the crusaders. Of Lady Godiva, of Coventry the wife of Earl Leofric, who lived long before the days of the crusaders, 1t is recorded that she be- queathed to the monastery which she founded a circlet of gems, which she threaded on string in order that 'by lingering them one by enc, as she successively recited her prayers, she might not fall short of her exact num- Der. The first week of the mission will close tomorrow at the 10: 30 o'clock mass. The services will con sist of low mass followed by the mission sermon after which the religi- ous articles will be blessed and the final benediction imparted. The serv- ices will close vita benedlction of the Blessed Sacrament.
 The second week of the mission, which Is to be given to doctrinal ser mons will begin at the evening serv- ices fifteen minutes before o'clock
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