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Rosary

LC control no.sh 85115404
LC classificationBX2310.R7 Sacramentals
BX2163 Prayers
Topical headingRosary
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Variant(s)Dominican Rosary
See alsoBeads--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
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Prayer--Catholic Church
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Rosaries (Prayer books)
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Scope noteHere 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 tracingNote under Rosaries (Prayer books)
Found inConcise 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")