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For the holiday Holy Rosary in the church of San Domenico in Varazze

The Holy Rosary is a prayer to Mary that Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation in Marialis cultus defines as "a compendium of the whole Gospel." This teaching is also offered by Catechism of the Catholic Church, from now on CCC, n. 971. Also the CCC, n. 1674, calls on the catechesis is not restricted to the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals, but also to other forms of religious popular, among them the Rosary. Still teaches the CCC, 2678: "The medieval piety the West developed the prayer of the Rosary, popular substitute for the Prayer of the Hours ...". Finally, CCC, 2708 points to the importance of meditation that puts into action the whole person, being-as-Christian prayer careful to ponder the mysteries of Christ, as is the case ... in the Rosary.

The litany is ancient in the Church, and was otherwise practiced by medieval monks and lay brothers who, not knowing the Latin did not participate in the great liturgical prayer. According to a pious

assignment was at St. Dominic "invented" the rosary .. In reality only in 1470 established in France the first Confraternity of the Rosary, and only a century later, in 1569 a Dominican pope, St. Pius V, sets the architectural lines of the Rosary in separate joyful, sorrowful and glorious. For each group of five decades of mysteries Ave Maria , preceded by an Our Father , and followed by a Gloria , and sometimes by a Eternal rest. Paul VI in the already quoted Apostolic Exhortation Marialis cultus recognized the merit of the Dominican Friars have played a sustained effort to spread of this prayer is eminently Christological, albeit through Mary. "For Iesum to Mariam."