Praying the Rosary Mary's Fifteen Promises to Christians who recite the Rosary
Why the Daily Rosary? Instructions for Praying the Rosary
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Why pray the daily Rosary?
1. Our Lady has 117 titles. She selected this title at Fatima: "I am the Lady of the Rosary."

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2. St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying is- Pray the Rosary!
3. St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome Italy on just the Hail Mary.
4. St. John Vianney, patron of priest, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.
5. "The rosary is the scourge of the devil" -- Pope Adrian VI
6. "The rosary is a treasure of graces" -- Pope Paul V
7. Padre Pio the stigmatic priest said: "The Rosary is THE WEAPON"
8. Pope Leo XIII (The Pope of the Rosary) wrote 11 encyclicals on the rosary between 1883-1898.
   1883- Supremi Apostolatus Officio
    1884- Superiore Anno
    1887- Vi E Ben Noto
    1891- Octobri Mense
    1892- Magnae Dei Matris
    1893- Laetitiae Sanctae
    1894- Incunda Semper Expectatione
    1895- Adiutricem Populi
    1896- Fidentem Piumque Animum
    1897- Augustissimae Virginis Mariae
    1898- Diuturni Temporis
9. St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote: "The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."
10. The "Age of Mary" started in the mid-19th century, starting in 1830 with the approved visions given to St. Catherine of Laboure about the Miraculous Medal and ended with the Marian year in 1954. Within the span of 125 years, there occurred 8 major Marian apparitions and the official declaration of 2 new Marian Dogmas that expressed the beliefs of Catholics since Apostolic Times. This time period consistently had Our Lady warning the faithful of the disasters to come to the Catholic Church and the world.

   1830- St. Catherine Laboure (Miraculous Medal/Our Lady of Grace Medal)
    1846- Our Lady of La Salette- "Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist."
    1854- Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
    1858- Our Lady of Lourdes- Our Lady implores the faithful for acts of penance, particularly with the Rosary.
    1871- Our Lady of Pontmain
    1879- Our Lady of Knock
    1917- Our Lady of Fatima- Warnings for the world and the Church with prophecies that all came true
    1932- Our Lady of Beauraing
    1933- Our Lady of Banneux
    1950- Dogma of the Assumption of Mary
    1954- Marian Year declared by Pope Pius XII