LC control no. | sh 85115404 |
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LC classification | BX2310.R7 Sacramentals BX2163 Prayers |
Topical heading | Rosary |
Variant(s) | Dominican Rosary |
See also | Beads--Religious aspects--Catholic Church Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to Prayer--Catholic Church Rosaries (Prayer books) |
Scope note | Here are entered works on the Catholic devotion to the Virgin Mary that consists of a system of prayers and meditations (called "mysteries") to be recited while holding a chain of beads that is used as a counter. Prayer books in which the mysteries of the rosary appear in conjunction with psalms or other scriptural passages, meditations, or illustrations are entered under Rosaries (Prayer books). |
Subject example tracing | Note under Rosaries (Prayer books) |
Found in | Concise dict. theol. ("popular Western prayer said out of devotion to Our Lady") Encyc. dict. rel. ("Rosary: known also as the Dominican Rosary, is a Marian prayer") New Cath. encyc. ("usually refers to the so-called Dominican Rosary") New Schaff-Herzog ("the complete, or Dominican, Rosary") |