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26 PAPAL DOCUMENTS ON THE ROSARY

Here are twenty–six documents given to us by the Popes through the centuries. There were others written also but we do not have copies available for this page. Should we get them they will be added. The number of these encyclical or circular letters is an indication of the importance the Popes hold for the “Most Holy Rosary”, as it is called. With the exception of Pope St. Pius V, all the other Popes are modern, being pontiffs during the past one hundred and twenty–five years. The Rosary is a prayer for our modern times.

Pius V (a Dominican Pope)

CONSUEVERUNT ROMANI, 17 September 1569

Popes Leo X (1521), Gregory XIII (1585), Sixtus V (1590), Clement VIII (1605), Alexander VII (1667), Bl. Innocent XI (1689), Clement XI (1721), Innocent XIII (1724), Benedict XIV (1740-58),and others wrote on the rosary

Leo XIII

Together with Pope St. Pius V, Pope Leo XIII truly merits the title, “the Pope of the Rosary.” Twenty–two of his documents are devoted to the holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

SUPREMI APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO, September 1, 1883

SUPERIORE ANNO, August 30, 1884.

QUOD AUCTORITATE, December 22, 1885

VI E BEN NOTO, September 20, 1887.

QUAMQUAM PLURIES, 15 August 1889

OCTOBRI MENSE, September 22, 1891.

MAGNAE DEI MATRIS, September 8, 1892.

LAETITIAE SANCTAE, September 8, 1893.

IUCUNDA SEMPER EXPECTATIONE, September 8, 1894.

ADIUTRICEM, September 5, 1895

FIDENTEM PIUMQUE ANIMUM, September 20, 1896

AUGUSTISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE, September 12, 1897

DIUTURNI TEMPORIS, September 5, 1898

Pius XI

INGRAVESCENTIBUS MALIS, September 29, 1937

Pius XII

DEIPARAE VIRGINIS MARIAE, 1 May 1946

INGRUENTIUM MALORUM, September 15, 1951

AD CAELI REGINAM, 11 October 1954

John XXIII

GRATA RECORDATIO, 26 September 1959

IL RELIGIOSO CONVEGNO, 29 September 1961 [Portuguese only available]

Paul VI

MENSE MAIO, April 30, 1965

CHRISTI MATRI, 15 September 1966

SIGNUM MAGNUM, May 13, 1967

MARIALIS CULTUS, February 2, 1974

John Paul II

REDEMPTORIS MATER, 25 May 1987

ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE, 16 October 2002