The Rosary of the Virgin Mary ... remains … a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness,’ ...

Twenty years ago, St. John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, adding five Luminous Mysteries to the traditional 15 meditated on in the rosary. The Luminous Mysteries ...

For Catholics, the rosary consists of reciting one “Our ... many were reminded of the somber vigils held when St. John Paul II was hospitalized at the end of his papacy in 2005.