Scripture excerpt
“How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”
Psalms · 77:3 (78:3 in many modern editions)Read the full passage
Montfort on practising what is preached
Book excerpt
“it will not be enough for us to preach this devotion to others; we must practice it ourselves”
The Secret of the Rosary · A White Rose, §2 · addressed to priestsRead the full passage
A historical argument
Historical reference excerpt
“Of the eight or nine early Lives of the saint, not one makes the faintest allusion to the Rosary.”
“The Rosary”, The Catholic Encyclopedia · Historical discussion of St. Dominic · volume 13Read the full passage
Source context AI-assisted summary
Source summary · AI-assisted · not a quotation
This 1912 article examines the evidence for associating the Rosary’s origins with St. Dominic. It traces the later tradition through Alan de la Roche and distinguishes older prayer-counting practices from the later arrangement of mysteries.
Read the tradition separately
Source context AI-assisted summary
Source summary · AI-assisted · not a quotation
Montfort’s Second Rose recounts a devotional account of Dominic and the Rosary. It is presented as devotional narrative, rather than contemporary documentary evidence. The two works have different purposes and should not be treated as interchangeable kinds of testimony.
