Rosary
Scope and Contents
Material culture and pamphlets that document the Liturgical Movement and changes in religious life in the American Catholic Church from the early twentieth century through the implementation of the Second Vatican Council's reforms in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection contains artifacts of many kinds, including badges, bookmarks, candles, chalices, chaplets, crosses, crucifixes, holy water containers, jewelry, key rings, medals, money clips, monstrances, pins, plaques, relics, rosaries, scapulars, sick call sets, statues, vestments, and altar textiles.
Dates
- Creation: undated
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1926 - 1968
Creator
- From the Collection: Leonard, William J. (1908-2000) (Compiler, Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is mostly in English, with some materials in French, German, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovenian, and Spanish.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Full Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (2 containers)
Digitized
Digitized at the Internet Archive (PicklistBC_LiturgyandLife_Rosary (11/8/2013)) 18 titles:
Say a decade of the beads / by Thomas H. Moore.
The Rosary, my treasure.
Twenty-four rosaries and chaplets / compiled by Patrick Shaughnessy.
Novena booklet to Our Lady / by a Daughter of St. Paul.
The Rosary, my treasure.
The story of the family rosary.
The Rosary devotions : a thought for every day in October, the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary of our Blessed Virgin Mother / by the Rev. Mark J. Smith.
Rosary novenas to Our Lady / by Charles V. Lacey ; with preface by Raymond P. Lawrence.
Pray the Rosary : for private recitation, family Rosary, five first Saturdays, Rosary Novenas / by J.M. Lelen.
Bead by bead : brief meditations arranged as a practical aid in saying the Rosary / by T. Marion Will.
How to say the rosary.
Jesus in the Rosary / by Father MonsabreĢ ; translated from the French.
How to say the rosary.
The rosary made easy for non-Catholics.
The Rosary roses of prayer for the queen of Heaven / by Rev. Daniel A. Lord.
Rosary novenas to Our Lady / by Charles V. Lacey ; with preface by Raymond P. Lawrence.
The Rosary Crusade, by a Dominican Father.
Links of love : short meditations on the rosary / by Francis Friedel.
Repository Details
Part of the John J. Burns Library Repository
John J. Burns Library
Boston College
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