The best way to celebrate the month is, of course, to pray the Rosary.
Check out this beautiful site for Praying the Rosary
There also is another good website on the Holy Rosary
There also is an article in our web archives on How to pray the Rosary
Pope Leo XIII in an 1883 encyclical admonished the faithful to dedicate the month of October to the Queen of the Holy Rosary. He published 13 encyclicals on Mary.
Current scholarship traces the development of the Rosary to the High Middle Ages where it came into being in medieval monasteries as a substitute for the Divine Office for the lay monks and devout lay persons who did not know how to read. Instead of the 150 psalms, they would pray 150 "Our Fathers" counting them on a ring of beads known as the crown or "corona". With the growth of popularity of Marian devotion in the twelfth century, the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary" developed now substituting 150 "Hail Marys" in place of the "Our Fathers."
The 150 "Hail Marys" were subsequently subdivided into 15 decades with each decade referring to an event in the life of Jesus and Mary. These later were frther divided into the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries.
The origin of the Rosary also is attributed to to St. Dominic. Legend tells us that the Rosary as a form of prayer was given to St. Dominic (1170- 1221) by Mary
Read an article on Catholic.net
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