Who invented the rosary?

Answer 1

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The origin of the Rosary is most interesting. From its early days the Catholic Church urged its faithful to recite the 150 Psalms of David from the Bible. This custom still prevails today. Priests and consecrated religious are obliged to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) each day which consists in a large measure of the Psalms of David.

In former days, before the printing press, it was not easy for anyone to memorize the 150 Psalms and hand inscribed scrolls of Scripture were a rarity. The people who could not learn the 150 Psalms by heart, wanted to do something to make up for it. So they substituted 150 Hail Marys. They broke up these 150 Hail Marys into 15 decades, or series of ten. Each 10 Hail Marys were said while meditating on different aspects of the life of Our divine Lord. We call them the mysteries.
To keep each decade separate, each series of 10 began with the Our Father and ended with the doxology or the Glory Be in praise to the Blessed Trinity. They would meditate on some mystery of Jesus Christ for the length of time it took to say 10 Hail Marys, transporting little stones or beads from one pocket or hand to the other.

St. Dominic, who died in 1221, received from Our Blessed Mother the command to preach and to popularize the Rosary for the good of souls, conquest over evil, and the prosperity of Holy Mother Church. Thus as early as the 13th century, the Rosary was given its present classical form, bound together by string or wire. But the roots of the Rosary is traced to the Bible and practices of the early Christians. Popes have called it a Gospel prayer. It has been referred to as an illustrated prayer book one can read in the dark. It is called, a pocket edition of the New Testament.

At Fatima the Mother of God insisted that the Rosary be prayed properly. That means - meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary, the principle events of the life of Jesus Christ, the chief events of our redemption while praying the Hail Marys. The Rosary properly prayed is centered on Jesus Christ.

In praying the Holy Rosary, the whole man is employed. The Rosary invites our fingers, our lips, our heart. The body as well as the soul is employed. Pope Benedict XV said that when we have meditated on the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary - we have meditated on all the chief events of our salvation.

Answer 2

The actual origin of the “crowns of roses” was established as a practice of the simple medieval people, who were not able to read and therefore could not pray the Hours of the Divine Office, also called the Psaltery, as was the habit among educated Catholics. Thus, instead of reciting the 150 Psalms, they started to pray 150 Hail Marys in honor of Our Lady as a substitute for the Holy Office. According to this school, from the very beginning, the Rosary included not only joyful meditations on the life of Our Lady and her Son, but also, inspired by the Psalms, sorrowful and glorious meditations.

Answer 3

The rosary was invented by Peter the Hermit in 1090AD and brought fully into the Catholic Church by St. Dominic in the year 1214AD and approved by Pope Innocent III.

Answer 4

This picture is a Buddhist rosary : http://www.photovaco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/free-photo-buddhist-malarosary-522-m.jpg
AND this picture is a catholic rosary : http://trendsupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/rosary-beads.jpg ...i am sorry Buddhism is hundreds of years older than Christianity ...that means Buddhists first invented rosary ...and don't say rosary is universal in all religions ...so high similarity is only because of copying ...when there was no rosary before Buddhism , that means Buddhists invented it !

Answer 5

"Pious tradition has it that the mother of Jesus, Mary herself, gave the rosary to St. Dominic Guzman and told him to preach this prayer. More likely, the rosary developed out of the 12th-century chaplets of Pater's or Ave's recited by the Catholics of that time.

"These chaplets were a kind of poor person's Breviary made up of 150 Our Fathers (Pater Noster's) or Hail Marys (Ave's) corresponding to the 150 psalms of the Psalter. Like the Psalter, they were sometimes divided into sets of three 50's and counted on strings of beads called 'paternosters.' Each of the prayers was associated with a mystery in the lives of Jesus and Mary pronounced and meditated on at each bead or prayer of the chaplet.

Answer 6

I believe God's Child has it right. I use the rosary as my form of meditation.Other religions also have their own form of "meditation beads". I know that Buddhists do.

Answer 7

GOD'S CHILD said it best

MAN

And it has no Spiritual value at all.
I'm not being mean just making a point
and hope you got your answer!
"You can't follow traditons of man or man
to gain entrance to heaven. The rosary is
man made therefore not of God.

Rm 1:25
these things should not even be touched
because they are offered to idols
1Cor8:1
... to worship demons ...idols of gold ...brass..wood
REV 9:20,21

Answer 8

The rosary makers.

Answer 9

Invented by the Vatican. like the Pope,.It is a wrong prayer by some other religions because it is repeatedly said which is prohibited on the bible.According to the Bible repeated prayers are coming from the false religion.
jtm

Answer 10

Who Invented The Rosary