St. Dominic and the Rosary or Was He Its Founder?

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This little pamphlet reprints a series of correspondence that arose out of a minor allusion in a sermon preached in Holy Rosary Church, Portland, Oregon, U. S. A. by the Rev. A. M. Skelly, O.P.

On Rosary Sunday it is usual in Dominican churches to commemorate the monumental victory won by the Christian armies over the Turks at Lepanto by a solemn procession in honor of the Queen of the Rosary, to whose prayers and influence with God the victory is attributed. The point in question is whether or not the origin of the Rosary is Dominican in nature.

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was only in 1198 (i. e., in St. Dominic's time) that it was for the first time in the Church recommended as a prayer for the people, and this, in a synodal order by Eude de Suly, Bishop of Paris.

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St. Vincent Fe1·rer's paternoster gifted by him at his death, 1419, to the Duchess of Brittany, and still to be

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seen preserved with veneration by the Carmelite Sisters of Nantes.

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there are not eight or nine, but fifteen, early ''lives'' of St. Dominic.

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Bernard Gui put in record for the first time the fact of the Saint's presence at the battle of Muret.

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Not one of the fifteen "lives" says a single word concerning the Third Order. Was, then, St. Dominic its It is only 160 years after his death that Blessed Raymond of Capua, in his life of St. Catherine of Siena, lets us know for the first time that St. Dominic was its founder.