Biber - Rosary Sonata I - The Annunciation.wmv

used chaplets of beads to keep count, and these became known also as Paternosters. The term rosary came eventually to mean both the devotion itself and the chaplet used to count the Paternosters, and later on, the recitations of the other two prayers integrated into the devotion, the Ave Maria and the Gloria Patri. Between the introductory prayers and the concluding prayer is the heart of the rosary: the decades. Each decade, there are fifteen in a full rosary, is composed of ten Hail Marys ...
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