Each October 7 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary. The official rosary of the Christian Brothers consists of six decades of beads, not the usual five, because the Brothers were greatly influenced in the early days by the Society of the Priests of St. Sulpice. The Sulpicians honored six “aspects” (not “mysteries” as such) of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with a decade representing each aspect.
Brother Jeffrey Calligan (FSC), presenter at Buttimer II (Buttimer Institute of Lasallian Studies), Summer 1996, at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, CA). The particular class was on July 3, 1996, and the notes were taken by Brother Joseph Grabenstein.
