So the Vicar can say with equanimity, with no doubt, in an encyclical letter sent last week to all patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops for the instruction of their flocks: “The heads ...

The rosary was the subject for twelve encyclicals and five apostolic letters. Beginning in 1883 and concluding in 1898, an encyclical on the rosary appeared almost every year, usually in preparation ...