The Origin of the holy Rosary

THis holy Company was begun by S. Do­minick, founder of the renowned Reli­gious order of the Friar Prea­chers, about the year 1216. to extirpate the Heresie of the Al­bigenses, as it did; and after­wards, brought such fruit to the Church of God, that Popes, the more to recommend and make it famous, have endowed it with many priviledges and indulgen­ces, as you shall here see.

At their first entrance or admittance.

Entring into this noble Con­fraternity, [Page 2]they gaine a plena­ry Indulgence, granted by the Popes, Pius V. & Clement VIII.

The first Sundayes of the month.

Every first Sunday of the Month, (principally of October-having confessed & communi­cated, thy gain a plenary Indul­gence. Also visiting the Church or being present at the Processi­ons of the Rosary, a plenary in­dulgence. Greg. XIII Paul V.

Ʋpon the seaven feasts of our Lady.

On the Purification, Annun­ciation, Visitation, Assumption, Nativity, Presentation, and Conception of the Blessed Vir­gin, being confessed and com­municated, or having a will to do it in due time, a plenary in­dulgence. Also, visiting the Church, or being present at the Processions of the Rosary, a [Page 3]plenary indulgence. Pius IV.

To every Mystery of the holy Rosary.

They are fifteen, devided in­to three parts. Five, are c [...]lled joyful, whereon they are to me­ditate in saying the first Chapler (or Beads of five Decads of our Lady, the Annunciation, Visi­tation of S. Elizabeth, Nativity of our Saviour, his Presentati­on, and the Finding of him in the Temple; Five, called dolo­rous, in saying the second Chap­let, the sweat of Bloud, Whip­ping at the pillar, crowning with thornes, larrying of his Crosse and Crucifixion; and, Five glorious, in saying the third Chaplet, the Resurrection, Ascension, coming of the Holy Ghost, Assumption of our bles­sed Lady, and her Coronation: Upon all, and every the feasts of which Mysteries, as also on the [Page 4]celebrity of the crown of our Saviour, the Invention and Ex­altation of the holy Crosse, and the day of all Saints, visiting the Alter of the Rosary, may be gained, a plenary Indulgence. Greg. 9.

Of the Masse of the holy Rosary.

Every time that one sayeth it, causeth it to be sayd, or is pre­sent at it, a plenary Indulgence. Alex. VI. Paul. III.

For saying and carrying the Rosary about one.

Saying the whole Rosary, they gain three hundred sixty thousand and fifteen yeares, five quarantaines, and a hun­dred fourty dayes pardon. In­noc. 8. Alex. 8. Clem. 5. Adri­an. 6. Sixt. 4. Clem. 8. Alex. and Raimond Legats. And, [Page 5]which is more, a plenary indul­gence. Paul. 3.

Carrying publikely, and for to give good example, the Rosa­ry or Chaplet blessed by a Do­minican Friar, they gain every day two hundred quarantaines of indulgence. Inno. 8. Alex. 6.

Indulgences of the Stations of Rome, which every day are ple­nary, in one part or other of the Citty, with delivery also of soules out of Purgatory.

THey are gained by visiting five Altars, and saying be­fore every one of them five Pa­ter nosters, and five Ave Mari­as, or else, five and twenty Pa­ters and Ave, before one only Altar, if there be no more. Paul 3. Clement 8. Yea, it suffiseth to say only five Paters and A­ves, but before an Altar of the Rosary. Pius. 5.

At the discretion of the Bro­thers of the Confraternity.

Twice in their life, on the dayes they please to make choice of, being confessed and com­municated, they may gain a plenary indulgence. Innoc. 8. Clement 8.

The Salve Regina.

Hearing the Salve Regina after Complet in the Churches of S. Dominick, a hundred yeares and fourty dayes of In­dulgence. Paul. 5. Alex. Legat.

Doing of good workes.

Every time they visit the Chap­pell of the holy Rosary, or goe to see the sick exhorting them to receive the Sacraments, a hundred and sixty dayes of In­dulgence. Greg. 13. Clement 8.

Being present at the divine Offices, publike or private as­semblies of the Rosary, making peace between those who are at discord, and, whatsoever o­ther good work, sixty dayes of pardon. Clement 8.

For those who are sick or hindred.

The sick, or such as for other lawful impediments, cannot be present at the meeting of the Confraternity, communicating, and saying the Rosary, or sea­ven Psalmes, before some devout picture, gain all the same indul­gences, which they get who are assistant. Pius 5. Greg. 13. Sixt. 5.

At the hour of death.

At the hour of death, being confessed and communicated, a [Page 8]plenary Indulgence. Having the blessed candle of the Con­fraternity, a plenary Indul­gence. Saying with mouth or heart JESUS MARIA, a plenary Indulgence; and, such an absolution as one is thereby restored, to the purity and inno­cency which he had by ba­ptisme. Innoc. 8. Adrian 6. Greg. 13. Pius 5.

For the Dead.

Accompaning the Dead to their buriall, a hundred sixty dayes of Indulgence. Greg. 13. Clement 8. Being present at the Masses and Offices of the Dead, they gain five thousand four hundred yeares, and a hundred and fourty dayes par­don. Sixt. 4. Alex. 6. Greg. 13. Clem. 8, Every time they say the whole Rosary, they gain [Page 9]the delivery of a soul out of Purgatory. Paul 3. Whosoever of the forenamed on fraterni­ty, sayeth, causeth to be said, or is present when one saith Masse of the Rosary, to that intention, delivereth a soul out of Purga­tory. Paul 5. All the pardons granted to the living, may be applyed to the Dead, by com­municating, saying the Rosary, Masse, or making the stations for them. Leo 10.

For all Faithful people.

At the sound of the Ave Ma­ria at night, saying:

Angelus Domini nunciavit Ma­riae, & concepit de Spiritu Sancto: Ave Maria. Ecce ancilla Domini: fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum, Ave Maria. Et verbum caro fa­ctum est, & habitavit in nobis: Deo gratias, Ave Maria; They [Page 10]gain a plenary Indulgence. Paul 3. When the hour stri­keth, by saying an Ave Maria, a thousand dayes pardon. Leo 10. Saying the Office of our blessed Lady, at every Cano­nicall hour, they gain fourty dayes of Indulgence. John. 22. and other fifty granted by Pius 5. Invoking the holy names of JESUS and MARIA, ninety five dayes of pardon. Urban. 4. John 22. Pius 5. Bending reverently at the hea­ring or pronouncing of the said holy names of JESUS and MARIA, two hundred yeares, In the Ave maria, af­ter Jesus adding Christus, six­ty dayes pardon, saying withall the rest of the same, Sancta Maria, and the Salve Regina. As also standing up at Mag­nificat, fourty dayes of par­don. [Page 11]John 22. Reciting the prayer Ave Sanctissima Ma­ria, eleven thousand yeares of Indulgences, granted by Sixtus 4. Saying: Blessed and praised be the most holy Virgin Marie, a hundred yeares of Indulgen­ces. Paul 3.

Triviledges of the Confraters.

THey are as Religious of the holy Order S. Domi­nick, and (besides their own) are partakers of all the good works of that renowned Re­ligion, the whole world through both before and after Death. A rare priviledge. Innoc. 8. At Easter, Nativity, Annunciati­on, Visitation, Purification, and Assumption of our Lady, and three dayes before, the Do­minican Fathers may absolve [Page 12]them from all cases reserved, even to the Pope, (so they be not comprehended In Bulla Coenae) and release them of all oathes, and change their vowes, except the five ordinary. Leo 10. Being Dead, they have at least four Masses a year said for them in the Convents of S. Dominick, and places where there is a Confraternity; And who shall be there present the dayes after the Purification, Annunciation, Assumption, and Nativity of our Lady, shall gain a thousand nine hun­dred dayes of pardon. Granted by nineteen Cardinals of the said Confraternity, in the year 1479.

Conditions requisite for Admittance.

They must make their names be writ in a book kept for that end, confesse and commu­nicate, and say at least a Chap­let or pair of Beads of five de­cads. Pius 5. If one should cause Children to be admitted, of such as were absent, or dead, (a thing very frequent) he were not at all obliged, either for them, or for himself, under pain of sin, nor bound to pay ought, without he freely of h [...] own accord should please to be­stow it. They are to say three pair of Beads the week of five Decads, or their Chaplet, at one or more times. Paul 3. And that in such a place, and posture of body, as they themselves please, and when they omit to [Page 14]say them, though there be no of­fence, yet gain they not the par­dons for that time. Yet, in case, they have said, or shall say them double, (that is, twice so many Chaplets, or Beades of five Decads,) the week be­fore, or after, or should cause any other of the Confraternity to say them for them, they should not loose the pardons. An easy matter to do.

All the aforesaid matters are gathered out of authentick bookes and buls confirmed by Paulus V. 1608. bulla cumo­lim foelic. record.

A prayer against the plague taken out of the chronicle of the Sera­phical order of the fryers Minors written by the Reverend Father Francis Genzaga of the same Order.

THe whole City of Conimbris, being visited with a most grievous plague this place also (that is to say the Monastery of those sisters of S. Clare who are termed the urbanist nuns) be­gan to be infected; and whilst the Abbesse stood very solicitous at the grace. for the disposall of the sisters subjected un to her, to some place, for the safety of their lives; then suddenly appeared a begger, demanding the cause of her so great sorrow and so­licitude? and being thereof cer­tified, he delivered, her a small scroul of parchment, saying, If you will cause, the Anthemne [Page 16]and the prayer contained in that small scroul, to be often and daily repeated; this place shall not be touched with any plague at all, and having thus spoken, he vanished away; the nuns took this begger to be S. Bartholomew; but whosoever that was; without all doubt it is; that the monastery from that time, stood free from any pesti­ferous contagion; when the Ci­ty of Conimbris it self stood infected.