The Rosary · Our Lady of the Rosary

Our Lady of the Rosary

7 October · Memorial · White

The feast began with a victory. Don John of Austria defeated the Turkish fleet at Lepanto on the first Sunday of October in 1571, the same day the members of the Rosary confraternity walked in procession at Rome, and St Pius V ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary be made on that day. Gregory XIII in 1573 allowed the feast in every church with an altar of the Holy Rosary. After Prince Eugene's victory over the Turks at Peterwardein, in Hungary, on 6 August 1716, Clement XI commanded the whole Church to keep it. Leo XIII raised its rank and added to the Litany of Loreto the invocation Queen of the Most Holy Rosary.

Herbert Thurston, “Feast of the Holy Rosary”, The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 13 (1912).

The mysteries of the Rosary for each day.

The Virgin of the Rosary in painting

The Feast of the Rose Garlands by Albrecht Dürer, 1506, Národní galerie Praha (National Gallery Prague) — *The Feast of the Rose Garlands*
Albrecht Dürer
1506, Národní galerie Praha (National Gallery Prague)
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The Madonna of the Rosary by Caravaggio, c. 1603, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna — *The Madonna of the Rosary*
Caravaggio
c. 1603, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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The Virgin of the Rosary by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1675–1680, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London — *The Virgin of the Rosary*
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
c. 1675–1680, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
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The Virgin of the Rosary by Domingo Martínez, c. 1745, Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville — *The Virgin of the Rosary*
Domingo Martínez
c. 1745, Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville
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Virgin of the Rosary of Pomata by Unknown artist, 18th century, Museo Colonial, Bogotá — *Virgin of the Rosary of Pomata*
Unknown artist
18th century, Museo Colonial, Bogotá
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How the Rosary is prayed, and the twenty mysteries in sacred art