Question about the history of the rosary

[sidetrack]

Is it true that in the middle ages you would have to say ten rosaries a day?.

 

[puzzleannie]

no
do you have some reliable source for this claim?
the rosary is not now and never has been required prayer for any Catholic

 

[diggerdomer]

Is it true that in the middle ages you would have to say ten rosaries a day?.

No

 

[callmeChris]

I have enver heard of such a thing. There was a man of royalty who lived long ago that used to genuflect everytime he said the Hail Mary while praying the rosary. I read that somewhere in “The dictionary of Mary” a great book of Marian devotion and spirituality which I came to love.

 

[At_Trent]

Is it true that in the middle ages you would have to say ten rosaries a day?.

There are indulgenced prayers that require certain # of this or that prayer be prayed, but indulgences are not required. Indulgences are however, granted for the good of our soul if we choose to embrace them.

An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.(1983 Catechism : 1471)

 

[laszlo]

Is it true that in the middle ages you would have to say ten rosaries a day?.

One could have get a penance such measure; but that is temporary and exception. People had to work harder than now, they had to time for 10 rosaries in regular circumstances, and neither God nor the Church never wanted impossible things.

 

[Joannm]

The Rosary in the Middle Ages was not like it is today. First, the Hail Mary ended at the words, “blessed is the fruit of your womb.” The name “Jesus” was added I believe in the 12th Century and the second half of the prayer in the 16th Century. Also the mysteries were added later and not set until the 16th Century as well. It was originally just 150 Ave’s, with no Lord’s Prayer or Glory Be.