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Superiore Anno Encyclical Letter Pope Leo XIII on the Recitation of the Rosary August 30, 1884 To All Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops of the Catholic World in the Grace and Communion of the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. Last year, as each of you is aware, We decreed by an Encyclical Letter that, to...

Magnae Dei Matris Encyclical Letter Pope Leo XIII on the Rosary September 8, 1892 To Our Venerable Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. As often as the occasion arises to stimulate and intensify the love and veneration of the Christian people for Mary, the great Mother of God, We are filled with...

Laetitiae Sanctae Encyclical Letter Pope Leo XIII Commending Devotion to the Rosary September 8, 1893 To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops,and other Ordinaries, having Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction. The sacred joy which it has been given to Us to feel in attaining the fiftieth anniversary of Our Episcopal Consecration has...

Octobri Mense Encyclical of Pope Leo XIIIon the Rosary Promulgated on September 22, 1891 To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries having Grace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction. At the coming of the month of October, dedicated and consecrated as it is to the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, we...

Ingravescentibus Malis Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on the Rosary September 29, 1937 To the Venerable Brethren, Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Holy See. More than once have We asserted—and We recently repeated this in the Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris (Acta Ap. Sedis, 1937, Vol. XXIX, p. 65)—that there is no remedy for the...

Diuturni Temporis Encyclical Letter Pope Leo XIII on the Rosary September 5, 1898 To Our Venerable Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries having Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. 1. Looking back over the long space of time, which by God's Will We have passed in the Supreme Pontificate, We cannot...