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votion to the august Virgin should
live and flourish.
May the Christian people, excited by
Our exhortations and inf1amed by
your appeals, now seek the protection
of Mary, with an ardor growing
greater day by day. Let them betake
themselves more and more to the
protection of Mary, and trust in her.
Let them cling more and more to the
practice of the Rosary to which our
ancestors had recourse as an ever
ready refuge in misfortune, and as a
glorious pledge and proof of Christian
faith and devotion.
The heavenly PatroneSS of the
human race will receive with JOY
these prayers and supplications, and
will easily obtain that the good grow
in goodness, and that the erring re-
pent and be brought back to salvation;
that God, who is the avenger of crime,
moved to compassion and mercy,
shall deliver Christendom and civil
society from their present dangers,
and restore to them that peace which
is so much desired.
The Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII,
issued other Encyclicals and DEGREES
in favor of the Rosary. The following
list comprises the principal of these
documents:
On the 10th November of the same
year, the Holy Father addressed Let
tiers Apostolic to the Father General
of the Dominican Order, praising the
effect of his Encyclical Letter on the
Rosary devotions during October, and
declaring that the petition of the
title, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary
pray for us, inserted in the Litany,
should be considered.
On the 10th December, Decree
was issued ordering the insertion of
the above-named title in the Litany
of Loreto.
On the 14th December, Brief was
published, carrying out the same Or
der, and expressing the desire of His
Holiness that the Rosary should be
recited daily in cathedral churches
throughout the world, and in parish
churches on Sundays and Feast days.
On the 30th August, 1884, the Holy
Father issued an Encyclical Superb
ore ammo, in which, after expressing
his great joy at the celebration of the
preceding Rosary Month, he COM
manded the same for the ensuing
month of October.
In the year 1885, the Holy Father
established the Rosary Month, to be
continued until the peace and liberty
of the Church be restored.
On the 18th September, 1887, the
Festival of the Most Holy Rosary
was raised to double of the second
class.
On the 9Th August, 1888, proper
Office was assigned for Rosary Sun
day.
Among the numerous praises of the
Rosary scattered through these Pom
tifical documents, the following may
be quoted:
1--WE desire nothing more ardently,
that that the fervour OF the Faithful
in performing the devotion of the
Rosary should not languish, but
should remain firm and perfect, the
Holy Father desiring to increase the
devotion towards the Mother of God,
especially by this form of prayer most
pleasing to her."
Amongst the various forms of
prayer used in the Church, piously
and profitably, the Rosary has many
titles of praise especially this, that
it was instituted to implore the help
of the Mother of God against the
enemies of the Faith: and, as all
know, it has frequently helped the
Church in trial. Not only, therefore,
is it proper for private prayer, but
also for public occasions, that this
kind of prayer should be restored to
the honor it long held, when every
Christian family marked each day
with it's recital Hence we exhort
and beseech all to say the Rosary
every day with constancy."
care must be taken that in these
sad times for the Church the holy
custom of saying the Rosary is care
fully observed, especially as this form
of prayer is excellently suited to
nourish the spirit of devotion"