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Roman Catholic answer: The reason that I was told, years ago in the seminary, as that they were a replacement for the 150 psalms from The Book of Psalms in The Bible that the monks, for centuries would recite each week. Most people back then could not read and so they would recite 150 Our Fathers or Hail Marys to make up for the 150 psalms that they did not know. It may just be a pious legend, I really don't know, but it is the only explanation I have ever heard.
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Why is the hail Mary repeated 150 times?
The Rosary was created as a shortened way of saying the Psalms...and there are 150 Psalms...thus the 150 Hail Mary's
Is it true that the Rosary in the olde'n days that the Rosary had 150 beads?
Yes.
Why are there fifty nine rosary beads?
Rosary beads were originally a loop of 150 beads although smaller more compact rosaries of 50 beads were created that were repeated thrice to thus pray the entire Rosary devotion. These 150 beads were to parallel the 150 Psalms of the Old Testament, thus, the Rosary is the Psalter of the New Testament for Catholics. "Our Fathers" and "Glory Be's" were said between the decades and were eventually marked by a bead of their own, thus adding four more beads on the 50 bead Rosary. In addition to this, an introductory string of prayers was made which added four more beads again for the "Glory Be" and three "Hail Mary's" said after the initial opening with the Creed. Thus the 59 beads now on a standard Rosary.
Where did the rosary start?
There are differing views on the history of the rosary. According to tradition, the rosary was given to Saint Dominic in an apparition by the Blessed Virgin Mary in the year 1214 in the church of Prouille. This Marian apparition received the title of Our Lady of the Rosary. However, most scholarly research suggests a more gradual and organic development of the rosary. Prayers with beads like the rosary may have begun as a practice by the laity to imitate the monastic Liturgy of the Hours, during the course of which the monks prayed the 150 Psalms daily. As many of the laity and even lay monastics could not read, they substituted 150 repetitions of the Our Father (Pater noster in Latin) for the Psalms, sometimes using a cord with knots on it to keep an accurate count. During the middle ages, evidence suggests that both the Our Father and the Hail Mary were recited with prayer beads. In the 7th century, Saint Eligius wrote of using a counting device to keep track of the 150 Hail Marys of the Psalter of Mary. In 13th century Paris, four trade guilds existed of prayer bead makers, who were referred to as paternosterers, and the beads were referred to as paternosters, suggesting a continued link between the Our Father (Pater noster in Latin) and the prayer beads. In the 12th century, the rule of the English anchorites, the Ancrene Wisse, specified how groups of 50 Hail Marys were to be broken into five decades of ten Hail Marys each. Gradually, the Hail Mary came to replace the Our Father as the prayer most associated with beads. Eventually, each decade came to be preceded by an Our Father, which further mirrored the structure of the monastic Liturgy of the Hours. The practice of meditation during the praying of the Hail Marys is attributed to Dominic of Prussia (1382-1460), a Carthusian monk, who called it "Life of Jesus Rosary" The German monk from Trier added a sentence to each of the 50 Hail Marys already popular at his time, using quotes from scriptures. Promoted by his superior Adolf von Essen and others, his practice became popular among Benedictines and Carthusians from Trier to adjoining Belgium and France, where it was greatly promoted by the preaching of the Dominican priest Alan de Rupe, who helped to spread the devotion in France, Flanders, and the Netherlands between 1460 and his death in 1475. From the 16th to the early 20th century, the structure of the rosary remained essentially unchanged. There were 15 mysteries, one for each of the 15 decades. In the 20th century the addition of the Fatima Prayer to the end of each decade became popular. There were no other changes until 2002 when John Paul II instituted five optional new Luminous Mysteries. Since the 17th century, the Rosary began to appear as an element in key pieces of Roman Catholic Marian art, often in art that depicts the Virgin Mary. Key examples include Murrillo's Madonna with the Rosary at the Museo del Prado in Spain, and the statute of Madonna with Rosary at the church of San Nazaro Maggiore in Milan. Several Roman Catholic Marian churches around the world have also been named after the rosary, e.g. Our Lady of the Rosary Basilica, in Rosario Argentina, the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes and Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
How did the rosary began?
The rosary is said whenever you want to say it! It is a form of contemplative prayer which means that if you are new to the practice you should try and pray it in an area where you can quiet and focus your mind. Some people who recite the rosary say it for a special intention. For an example, whenever I pray the rosary I add at the end "I dedicate this rosary to all those struggling with addictions". You can dedicate it to whatever cause but in the end, one does not need a clear cut time and place to pray the rosary!
Where did the Rosary beads originate from?
The Rosary was create back in history when people couldn't read and therefor didn't read the bible. Most bibles were hand written so copies were very rare. So, the Rosary and it's Beads were created as a form of early prayer, each representing a psalm from the bible. 150 psalms, 150 beads.
Where does the word rosery not rosary come from?
Originally, monks used to say all the 150 psalms using strings of beads to help them remember. Then later that turned into saying 150 Our Fathers for quicker. St Dominic invented the Hail Mary version to convert heretics, possibly because she told him to in a vision.
How much do rosary tattoos cost?
i got a rosary on my wrist all the way to my middle finger and it cost $50
In a paragraph describe some ways that the early Christians preserved the Psalms?
they recited or sang all 150 of them , then later the people got used to singing or reciting the our father 150 times , then it evolved into the first half of the hail mary as in luke 1:28 ff. and finally the church added the second half to make what we have today , the rosary
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Who influenced the Rosary?
No one really invented the rosary- it was given to St. Dominic by the Virgin Mary. . The rosary is very old, we do not really know how old, but we do know that the traditional Dominican rosary that is most commonly said nowadays has been associated with the Dominican Order for over four hundred years. Pious legend has it that it was given to St. Dominic by Our Lady, as mentioned above, but this has never been proven.
