The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin is a popular Marian devotion in Roman Catholicism, involving prayers recited with the aid of a chaplet, or rosary, and centered on the Hail Mary. It is associated with St. Dominic in the 13th century and reached its definitive form in the 15th century. It was approved by Pope Leo X in 1520.
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