As response to these trying times, Leo XIII followed the example of previous popes by proposing the rosary as a "weapon" which St. Dominic, eight centuries earlier, had confided to the Church. It was ...

We are referring to the end of the 19th century which was marked by the Rosary encyclicals of Leo XIII, and on a popular level—by the great influence of Our Lady of Pompeii, by her apparition and the ...

The Popes and the Rosary 2. Numerous predecessors of mine attributed great importance to this prayer. Worthy of special note in this regard is Pope Leo XIII who on 1 September 1883 promulgated the ...

Lastly Gregory XIII in his turn pronounced that "the Rosary had been instituted by St. Dominic to appease the anger of God and to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary." 6.