Question: What is the history of the rosary? Answer: [The following is from “A Brief History of the Rosary,” This Rock magazine, Dec. 2002. Used with permission] The Catholic Encyclopedia (vol. 13, p. 184–189) recounts that in the early centuries of the Church monks would recite the Psalms as part of their rule of life. Since learning the Psalms was necessarily restricted to those who … Continue reading