DID YOU KNOW
"In almost all countries, then, we meet with something in the nature of prayer counters or rosary-beads"[?] (Catholic Encyc., 13: 185).
DID YOU KNOW
""For centuries among the Mohammedans, a bead-string consisting of 33, 66, or 99 beads has been used for counting the names of Allah. [?] Marco Polo, in the thirteenth century, was surprised to find the king of Malabar using a rosary of precious stones to count his prayers. St. Francis Xavier and his companions were equally astonished to see that rosaries were universally familiar to the Buddhists of Japan" (Babylon Mystery Religion, Woodrow, 21).
DID YOU KNOW
"Among the Phoenicians a circle of beads resembling a rosary was used in the worship of Astarte, the mother goddess, about 800 B.C. [?]...[also] The Brahmans have from early times used rosaries with tens and hundreds of beads. The worshippers of Vishnu give their children rosaries of 108 beads. A similar rosary is used by millions of Buddhists in India and Tibet. The worshipper of Siva uses a rosary upon which he repeats, if possible, all the 1,008 names of his god" (Babylon Mystery Religion, Woodrow, 21-22).
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"The monasticism and the religious services of Lamaism also present so striking a similarity with Catholic institutions that non-Catholic investigators have unhesitatingly spoken of a 'Buddhist Catholicism' in Tibet.[?] Pope and Dalilama, Rome and the city of Lhasa are counterparts; Lamaism has its monasteries, bells, processions, litanies, relics, images of saints, holy water, rosary-beads, bishops mitre, crosier, vestments, capes, baptism, confession, mass, sacrifice for the dead" (Cath. Ency., XII., 409).
DID YOU KNOW that S. E. Anderson, in the booklet Is Rome the True Church?, on page 20, he says:
"Roman priests call Mary the 'mother of God,' a name impossible, illogical, and unscriptural.[?] It is impossible, for God can have no mother; He is eternal and without beginning while Mary was born and died within a few short years. It is illogical, for God does not require a mother for His existence. Jesus said, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' (John 8:58). It is unscriptural, for the bible gives Mary no such contradictory name. Mary was the honored mother of the human body of Jesus - no more - as every Catholic must admit if he wishes to be reasonable and Scriptural. The divine nature of Christ existed from eternity past, long before Mary was born. Jesus never called her 'mother'; He called her 'woman.' "
DID YOU KNOW that Marcus Heyer, in his pamphlet, No Mother says:
"God has no mother. God has always existed. God Himself is the Creator of all things. Since a mother must exist before her child, if you speak of a 'mother of God' you are thereby putting someone before God. And you are therefore making that person God....Mary would weep to hear anyone so pervert the truth as to call her the mother of her Creator. True, Jesus was God; but He was also man. And it was only as man that He could have a mother. Can you imagine Mary introducing Jesus to others with the words: "This is God, my Son?' "
DID YOU KNOW
"In her sixth and last apparition at Fatima, October 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin insisted on the recitation of the rosary as a powerful means for the conversion of Russia and for peace in the world.[?] When Lucy asked, 'Who are you and what do you want?' Our Lady replied: 'I am the Lady of the Rosary...." (Favorite Novenas to MARY, A St. Joseph Prayerbook, 41).
DID YOU KNOW
"There is a tradition in the Church, often endorsed by Popes since the sixteenth century, that Our Lady appeared in vision to St. Dominic and bade him recite and propagate the Rosary in the form in which we know it now. It is neither reasonable nor desirable to accept this as a literal statement of historic fact. From very early days the Order has had zeal for the chronicling of such legends...." (The Dominicans, John-Baptist Reeves, 86-87) (With the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur)
DID YOU KNOW that the Rosary guides the bead-teller through a series of meditations on scenes from the Gospels, during which the Hail Mary is to be recited ten to one over the Our Father? At the end of the Glorious Mysteries (numbers four and five), which are to meditated on, we find the unbiblical doctrines of the “Assumption of Mary" (the bodily resurrection of Mary into heaven) and the "Coronation" of Mary as the "Queen of Heaven".
DID YOU KNOW that in the book of Revelation 4:2-4 there is no mention of a throne in heaven with Mary seated on it?
“And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne...And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.”
DID YOU KNOW that the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the story of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from Mary is a forgery, yet the RCC continues to produce millions of publications retelling the lie as though it were true? One such publication, The Rosary, Roses of Prayer for The Queen of Heaven, by Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S. J. says:
"Mary loved her son, Dominic. So she gave him a string of beads like a necklace. She taught him how to use it. She asked him to give it to the world. And from that day on, men and women have used the Rosary when they pray to God's Mother."
DID YOU KNOW that I Tim.1:4 says, “Neither give heed to fables...”and yet several Catholic writers, including St. Bellarmine, not giving heed to the Word, promoted this myth unashamedly. They tell of one priest advised three sisters to pray the Rosary every day without fail for a whole year.
“So the three sisters said the Rosary faithfully for a year and on the Feast of the Purification the Blessed Virgin appeared to them at night when they had retired. Saint Catherine and Saint Agnes were with her and she was wearing beautiful robes that shone and all over them ‘Hail Mary, full of grace’ was blazoned in letters of gold. The Blessed Mother came to the eldest sister and said ‘I salute you, my daughter, because you have saluted me so often and beautifully. I want to thank you for the beautiful robes that you have made me.’ The two virgin saints who were with Our Lady thanked her too and then all three of them vanished. An hour later Our Lady and the same two saints appeared to them again, but this time she was wearing green which had no gold lettering and did not gleam. She went up to the second sister and thanked her for the robes she had made Her by saying her Rosary. Since this sister had seen Our Lady appear to the eldest much more magnificently dressed she asked Her the reason for the change. The Blessed Mother answered: ‘Your sister made Me more beautiful clothes because she has been saying her Rosary better than you.’ About an hour after this she appeared to the youngest of the sisters wearing tattered and dirty rags. ‘My daughter’ she said ‘I want to thank you for these clothes that you have made Me. The young girl was covered with shame and she called out: ‘Oh, my Queen, how could I have dressed you so badly! I beg you to forgive me. Please grant me a little more time to make you beautiful robes by saying my Rosary better.” Our Lady and the two saints vanished, leaving the girl heartbroken. She told her confessor everthing that had happened and he urged her to say her Rosary for another year and to say it more devoutly than ever. At the end of the second year on the very same day of the Purification, Our Lady, clothed in magnificent robe and attended by St.Catherine and St. Agnes, wearing crowns, appeared to them again in the evening. She said to them” ‘My daughters, I have come to tell you that you have earned heaven at last - and you will all have the great joy of going there tomorrow.’”