Our Lady of the Rosary (), also known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, is a

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The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, formerly known as Feast of Our Lady of Victory and Feast of the Holy Rosary is celebrated on 7 October in the

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. 7 October is the anniversary of the decisive victory of the combined fleet of the Holy League of 1571 over the

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at the

Battle of Lepanto The Battle of Lepanto was a naval warfare, naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League (1571), Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of t ...

. In the Western Rite Vicariate of the

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, the feast is optionally celebrated on 7 October, under the title ''The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.''

Our Lady of the Rosary

According to Dominican tradition, in 1206,

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was at the

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, in

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, attempting to convert the

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back to the Catholic faith. The young priest had little success until one day he received a vision of the

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, who gave him the

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as a tool against heretics. The story of Dominic's vision was recorded by

Alanus de Rupe Alan de la Roche (Ecclesiastical Latin: ''Alanus de Rupe''; French language, French: ''Alain'' – 8 September 1475) was a Breton-born priest and Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest, Catholic myst ...

, a 15th-century Dominican friar who is credited with promoting the Rosary among the faithful in Europe. This traditional origin for the Rosary was generally accepted until the 15th century, when the Bollandists concluded that the account originated with the account recorded by Alanus, two hundred years after Dominic's death.

Our Lady of Victory

Mary had been honored in the West under the title "Our Lady of Victory" from at least the thirteenth century.

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built the first shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Victory in thanks for the Catholic victory over the Albigensians at the

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on September 12, 1213.Thurston, Herbert. "Feast of the Holy Rosary." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 2 May 2013
/ref> In thanksgiving for victory at the

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in July 1214,

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of France founded the Abbey of Notre Dame de la Victoire, between Senlis and Mont l'Evêque.Auguste Morel
"abbaye+de+la+Victoire"&pg=PA280 ''De Paris à Cologne, à Bruxelles, à Senlis, à Laon... itinéraire descriptif et historique''
Libr. de L. Hachette et Cie., 1864, p. 280 In the East, the title "Our Lady of Victory" is even older. The feast of Our Lady of Victory, on February 25, commemorates the deliverance of the city of Constantinople "from the siege of the Saracens by the aid of the Blessed Virgin, A.D. 621."

Feast day

Background

In 1571,

Pope Pius V Pope Pius V, OP (; 17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (and from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 January 1566 to his death, in May 1572. He was an ...

organized a coalition of forces from Spain and smaller Christian kingdoms, republics and military orders, to rescue Christian outposts in

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, particularly the Venetian outpost at

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which, however, surrendered after a long siege on 1 August before the Christian forces set sail. On 7 October 1571, the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, sailed from

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, and met a powerful Ottoman fleet in the

. Knowing that the Christian forces were at a distinct material disadvantage, Pope Pius V called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory,''Butler's Lives Of The Saints'' (April) by Alban Butler (1999) page 222 and led a rosary procession in Rome. Pius V instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory in order to commemorate the victory at Lepanto, which he attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary. After about five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece, the combined navies of the Papal States,

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and Spain managed to stop the Ottoman navy, slowing the Ottoman advance to the west and denying them access to the Atlantic Ocean and the Americas. If the Ottomans had won, there was a real possibility that an invasion of Italy could have followed so that the Ottoman sultan, already claiming to be emperor of the Romans, would have been in possession of both New and Old Rome. Combined with the

Great Siege of Malta The Great Siege of Malta (Maltese language, Maltese: ''L-Assedju l-Kbir'') occurred in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the Knights Hospitaller. The siege lasted nearly four months, from 18 May t ...

(1565) and the unfolding events in Morocco where the Sa'adids successfully spurned the Ottoman advances, it confined Turkish naval power to the eastern Mediterranean. Although the Ottoman Empire was able to build more ships, it never fully recovered from the loss of trained sailors and marines, and was never again the Mediterranean naval power it had become the century before when Constantinople fell.Ahmed Nazeer. "Lepanto, the Battle of", ''History of Islam''
/ref> In 1572, Pope Pius V formalized the number and content of the

Mysteries of the Rosary The Rosary (; , in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), formally known as the Psalter of Jesus and Mary (Latin: Psalterium Jesu et Mariae), also known as the Dominican Rosary (as distinct from other forms of rosary such as the ...

and actively promoted its recitation. In 1573,

Pope Gregory XIII Pope Gregory XIII (, , born Ugo Boncompagni; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake ...

changed the name of the feast into ''Feast of the Most Holy Rosary of the Bl. Virgin Mary'', to be celebrated on the first Sunday of October. The Dominican friar, Juan Lopez, in his 1584 book on the Rosary, states that the feast of the Rosary was offered "in memory and in perpetual gratitude of the miraculous victory that the Lord gave to his Christian people that day against the Turkish armada". In 1671, the observance of this festival was extended by

Clement X Pope Clement X (; ; 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death on 22 July 1676. Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, born in Rome in ...

to the whole of Spain, and somewhat later

Clement XI Pope Clement XI (; ; ; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721. Clement XI was a patron of the arts an ...

, after the victory over the Turks gained by Prince Eugene in the

Battle of Petrovaradin The Battle of Petrovaradin also known as the Battle of Peterwardein, took place on 5 August 1716 during the Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718), Austro-Turkish War when the Ottoman army besieged the Habsburg-controlled fortress of Petrovaradin on ...

on 5 August 1716 (the feast of Our Lady of the Snows), commanded the feast of the Rosary to be celebrated by the universal church.Leonard Foley, OFM ''Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons, and Feast''
Franciscan Media,

Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the A ...

raised the feast to the rank of a double of the second class and added to the

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the invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary". On this feast, in every church in which the Rosary confraternity has been duly erected, a plenary

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''toties quoties'' is granted upon certain conditions to all who visit therein the Rosary chapel or statue of Our Lady. This has been called the "Portiuncula" of the Rosary. During his pontificate, Leo XIII issued eleven

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about Our Lady of the Rosary and its feast.

Pius X Pope Pius X (; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing Modernism in the Catholic Church, modern ...

, in 1913, changed the date to 7 October, as part of his effort to restore celebration of the liturgy of the Sundays. In 1960, under

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963. He is the most recent pope to take ...

, it is listed under the title ''Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary''; and under the 1969 liturgical reforms of

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...

, ''Our Lady of the Rosary'' is mentioned as a mandatory memorial. File:Van Dyck - Madonna del Rosario - Palermo.jpg, ''Our Lady of the Rosary'' by

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, between 1623 and 1624 File:Bernardo Cavallino - La Visione di San Domenico (anni 1640).jpg, ''The Vision of Saint Dominic'' by

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, 1640 File:Cathedral Fribourg vitrail Unsere Liebe Frau 01.jpg, Our Lady of Victory by

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, 1896–1897,

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window in

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Patronage

Our Lady of the Rosary is the patron saint of several places around the world. The Diocese of Malaga, Spain (which, however celebrates her patronage on September 8), and the Spanish cities of

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and Trujillo celebrate Our Lady of Victory as their patroness. ''María del Rosario'' is a common female Spanish name (colloquially abbreviated to ''Rosario'' or ''Charo''). ''Rosario'' can also be used as a male first name, particularly in Italian and Rosaria as the female version.

Churches dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary

* Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in

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* The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in

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– part of the

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* The Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei * The Chapel of the Virgin of the Rosary in

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, Mexico – built between 1531 and 1690 * The cathedral for the Diocese of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio * The cathedral of Duluth, Minnesota * The cathedral of the Diocese of San Bernardino, California * The church of Our Lady of the Rosary in New York City – began in 1883 as the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the protection of Irish immigrant girls * A sanctuary in Buenos Aires – * Our Lady of the Rosary church in Jashpur, India – the second largest church in Asia, accommodating 10,000 worshippers * Basilica of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Karumathampatti

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. * The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Vancouver, British Columbia * Our Lady of the Rosary church in New Orleans – first mass held was held on Christmas of 1907 * The

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's Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary – in

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in north London * Our Lady of the Rosary church in Greenville, South Carolina * Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral in Mangalore, India * Shuangshu Church in Tianjin, China * Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in

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* Most Holy Rosary Parish in

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, Philippines * Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in

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, Philippines * Church of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Guardian Angels,

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, Ireland

Churches named for Our Lady of Victory

Although the title Our Lady of Victory has been superseded to some extent by that of Our Lady of the Rosary, the former is still in popular use at a number of parishes and schools. *

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is an historic Marian shrine and place of pilgrimage. Augustinian friars built it between 1629 and 1740 with financial assistance from Louis XIII, who named the church Notre-Dame des Victoires in gratitude for the victory of French forces over the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle (1627–28). * The Church of Our Lady of Victory (''Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné'') in

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houses the 16th-century

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. *

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was founded in 1856 to serve French Catholic immigrants to California. In 1887,

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signed the decree putting l'Eglise Notre Dame des Victoires in charge of the Marists, and making it a French National Church. The church was rebuilt in 1915 after the earthquake and fire of 1906, and was declared an historical landmark in 1984. * Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica is located in Lackawanna, New York. *Our Lady of Victory is the cathedral church for the Diocese of Victoria, Texas. * The church of Our Lady of Victory, also known as the War Memorial Church, in the financial district of Manhattan, New York City, was dedicated to Our Lady of Victory by Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York and apostolic vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces on June 23, 1947 " ... in Thanksgiving for Victory won by our valiant dead, our soldiers' blood, our country’s tears, shed to defend men’s rights and win back men’s hearts to God." * The chapel at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, is named for Our Lady of Victory, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. * St. Mary of Victories Hungarian Catholic Church is located in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Mary's was built in 1843, and is the second oldest Catholic Church within the city limits. Originally home to German immigrants, the parish became home to the Hungarian Community in 1957 and is the official Hungarian Church for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. * Our Lady of Victories,

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is located in London. The Church was at one point the Pro-Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Westminster, and was heavily bombed in World War II. *The Chapel of Our Lady of Victory, an abandoned 18th-century chapel located in

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, Brazil * Our Lady of Victory Parish, is located in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines"Our Lady of Victory Parish - Victorias City, Negros Occidental"
/ref> * Our Lady of Victory Church, a 19th-century church in

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, China. It is one of the oldest churches in the city. * , a 20th-century cathedral in Xiashan District,

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, China.

References

External links

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