'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. 



                                                                           

American Robin 

ROAR STANDS FOR ROBIN:  My new series of posts is inspired by my name: Roberta.

Robin's new borns
This is what I mean by roar. So sweet!

       

American Robin's eggs 

                          

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Deruta traditons: The Confraternity of the Rosary

The Virgin of the Rosary

In Deruta in the past Century there was a Confraternity of the Rosary to which the "Derutesi" were very devoted. The only Chapel of the Church of Saint Francis in Deruta is dedicated to the original prayer of the Rosary.

I am showing here the most popular image of this Virgin, which is most familiar to us.
From the iconographic point of view, we may notice the same structure of the Siena pattern: here we have two Saints adoring the Virgin and Child, in the Siena pattern two deer on each side of the fount.

It is interesting to know that this Confraternity was first established in the Renaissance, exactly in 1470 and approved by  Pope Sixtus IV in 1479.

The Virgin of the Rosary is originally from Pompei. The Feast of the "Madonna del Rosario" is on October 7th.

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Along with the rebirth of the Ceramics Art at the end of the 19th Century, the Derutesi brought back  religious traditions originally from the Renaissance, the age of refungence of their artistry.