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Tu es area compluta, 

 Coclesti rore imbuta, 

 Sicco tamen vellere. 

 Tu iios in hoc carcere 

 Solare propitia, 

 Dei plena gratia. 

 O Sponsa Dei electa, 

 Esto nobis via recta 

 Ad aeterna gaiidia, 

 U bi pax est, & gloria. 

 Tu nns semper aure pia 

 Dulcis exauili Maria, 



15. FESTIVAL OF THE ROSARY, or Festum 

 Rosarii. 



Obs. The Festival of the Rosary occurs on the first Sunday of 

 October. It is to be distinguished from the Salutation said on the 

 Beads, also called the Rosary. The festival of today is to be found 

 in the Roman Breviary. 



Hymnus Antiquus in Officio Rosarii. 



O qloriosa Virginuin, 

 Subliiiiis inter sidera : 

 Qui te trearit, parvulum 

 Lactente iiulris ubere 

 Quod Heva tristis abstulit, 

 Tu reddis almo geruiine : 

 Intrent ut aetra flebiles, 

 Coeli recludis cardines. 

 Tu Keffis alti Janua, 

 Et Aula lucis fulgida : 

 Vitani datam per Virginem, 

 Gentes reileuiptae plaudite. 

 lesu, tibi sit gloria, 

 Qui natus es ile Virgine, 

 Cum Patie, & almo Spiiitu, 

 In^sempiterna saecula. 



The Salutation of the Rosary as said on the beads is quite diffe- 

 rent, and runs thus: +^" "'"nine Patris et Filii et Spiritus 

 Sancti. Amen. 



The Puter Nosier being said once, the Ave Maria is said ten 

 times, that is, once on each bead, till the person comes to the large 

 bead, and then the Pater Nuster is said again, and then the ten 

 Ave Marias ; and so on till the whole number of tens be finished, 

 which on the short or common Chaplet is five, but in certain long 

 Rosaries it amounts to fifteen ; at the end it is customary to say the 

 Belief in Latin. 



And then the whole finishes with the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, 

 Gloria Patri, and In nomine Patris, &C.+ Sometimes, however, 

 short prayers on the fifteen mysteries are introduced. 



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