"When people say the Rosary together, it is far more formidable to the devil, than one said privately, because in this public prayer, it is an army that is attacking. It is very easy to break a single ...

Jacob Sprenger's German rosary manual of 1476 also used the word rosary. A good, simple, secular man had the custom of making ... given so many tasks to perform that he no longer had time to make Mary ...