Friends of CAMA's Blog : 'R' for 'ROSARY'

domenica 16 febbraio 2014

'R' for 'ROSARY'

I visited the Shrine of the Virgen of the Rosary of Pompeii
for the first time in 2005. My great-grandmother
Diamante was very devoted to the Rosary.

My great-grandmother Diamante was very devoted to the Rosary. Both my great-grandparents were part of the Confraternity of the Rosary in Deruta.

This confraternity must have been very influent in town as the only chapel in the Church of St. Francis in Deruta is dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii.

I am showing here the most popular image of the Virgin of the Rosary. From the iconographic point of view, we may notice the trees of life's structure: here we have two Saints adoring the Virgin and Child, on a lower level and facing each other.

Reconstruction of Pompeii. the city was buried under a
pyroplastic ash flow from Mount Vesuvius. A movie
coming in theaters next week!

A classical rosary chain. The rosary is a Marian prayer.
It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It goes back to
the Renaissance period in Italy.

The Virgin of the Rosary devotion is originally from Pompeii (Naples). The Feast day is October 7th. A movie celebrating Pompeii will be in theaters Thursday, February 20th. I can't miss it!

It is interesting to know that the Confraternity of the Rosary was first established in 1470 in the Renaissance period and approved by Pope Sixtus IV in 1479.

A litany was approved by Pope Sixtus V in 1587 as a later addition.

It is important to know that the prayer of the rosary was brought back as a tradition in the late 1800s. This tradition had been lost. It came back along with the interest in Renaissance arts & crafts. Research and passion for arts & crafts would eventually take the plunge in the 1920s also known as the second Renaissance period in Italy and Europe.