rosary confraternity

1) An indulgence of 100 days for every Our Father and Hail Mary, which makes 5,500 days in all (100 x 55 = 5,500)*

2) Besides for pronouncing devoutly the holy name of Jesus in each Hail Mary, the Rosarian gains 5 years and 5 quarantines, that is to say, 1,825 +200, or 2,025 days of indulgence (1,825 + 200 = 2,025), which, multiplied again by the number of Hail Marys, viz., 50, makes 101,250 days of indulgence (2,025 x 50 = 101,250), (Pius IX., Decr. S.C. Indulgence April 14, 1856); so that he gains in each pair of beads 5,500 days for reciting it ; 101,250 for pronouncing devoutly the holy name, in all 106,750 days.

3) There is another indulgence of 5 years and 5 quarantines, common also to all the faithful, that is, 2,025 days (1,825 + 200 = 2,025), each time for saying a third part of the Rosary (see Raccolta, 194 Edit. 1898), which added to the above of 106,750, makes 108, 775 (2,025 + 106,750 = 108,775).*

(* The indulgence marked with an asterisk are common to all the faithful)

4) Again, an indulgence of 300 days for saying a third part of the Rosary granted by Pope Leo XIII., April 29, 1899, makes in all the sum of 109,075 (300+ 108,775 = 109,075). All these indulgences are gained by saying a single pair of beads.

5) Moreover a person enrolled in the Rosary Confraternity, and carrying with him, even without saying them, a pair of beads blessed by a Dominican, or by an authorized priest gains 100 years and 100 quarantines of indulgence daily (Pope Pius X., July 31, 1906), which makes 36,500 + 4,000 = 40,500) which added to the above quantity, makes the total of 149,575 = 4409 years and 310 days of indulgence, which every one may gain in ten or fifteen minutes.

CONDITIONS

The only condition for a Rosarian is to say every week the whole Rosary of fifteen decades which can be said in three days; so that, by saying a third part of the rosary every day, one complies with this condition

6) Pope Pius X, June 12, 1907, granted the following privilege, namely, that one and the same recitation the Crozier and the Dominican indulgence can be gained, provided the rosary has received both blessings.

SUMMARY OF INDULGENCES OF DOMINICAN BEADS

According to this concession a Rosarian may gain by saying a single pair of beads the sum of 177,075, that is, 149,575, the Dominican indulgence, +27,500 of the Crozier (149,575 + 27,500 = 177,075 = 485 years, 50 days of indulgence).

For Saying the beads (Rosary) 5,500 days
For pronouncing devoutly the holy name of Jesus 101,250 days
For saying a third part of the Rosary each time 2,025 days
Again for a third part of the Rosary 300 days
For carrying the Rosary beads 40,500 days
Sub-Total (409 years and 310 days of indulgence) 149,575 days
Plus Crozier indulgence 27,500
Total (485 years and 50 days of indulgence) 177,075 days