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• Confraternity of the Rosary — The Confraternity of the Holy Rosary is a Roman Catholic Archconfraternity or spiritual association, under the care and guidance of the Dominicans, the members of which strive to pray the entire Holy Rosary weekly.[1] Roman Catholic Mariology A… …   Wikipedia

• Confraternity of the Holy Rosary —     Confraternity of the Holy Rosary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Confraternity of the Holy Rosary     In accordance with the conclusion of the article ROSARY no sufficient evidence is forthcoming to establish the existence of any Rosary… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Rosary —     The Rosary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Rosary     I. IN THE WESTERN CHURCH      The Rosary , says the Roman Breviary, is a certain form of prayer wherein we say fifteen decades or tens of Hail Marys with an Our Father between each ten,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Carmelite Order —     The Carmelite Order     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order     One of the mendicant orders.     Origin     The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Fivefold Scapular — is a sacramental made up of the five most popular scapulars in the Catholic Church: the Brown Scapular, the Blue Scapular, the Black Scapular, the Red Scapular, and the White Scapular. The Brown Scapular The Brown Scapular (also known as the… …   Wikipedia

• Rosary — This article is about the Catholic Marian devotion. For other forms of the Christian rosary, see Rosary based prayers. For prayer beads in other religions, see Prayer beads. Roman Catholic Mariology A series of articles on Rosary Blesse …   Wikipedia

• Confraternity — A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy. An archconfraternity is a franchise of… …   Wikipedia

• Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary — The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany originally approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. It is also known as the Litany of Loreto, for its first known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto (Italy), where its usage was… …   Wikipedia

• Scapular of the Seven Sorrows of Mary — Christian Sacramentals A series of articles on Scapular General articles St. Simon Stock Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Rosary Scapular Sabbatine Privilege Specific Scapulars Mount Carmel (Brown) Fivefold Scapular Passion (Red) Passion (Black) 7 Sorrows… …   Wikipedia

• Feast of the Holy Rosary —     Feast of the Holy Rosary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Feast of the Holy Rosary     Apart from the signal defeat of the Albigensian heretics at the battle of Muret in 1213 which legend has attributed to the recitation of the Rosary by St.… …   Catholic encyclopedia