Confraternity of the Rosary

The Confraternity of the Holy Rosary is a Roman Catholic Archconfraternity or spiritual association, under the care and guidance of the Dominican Order.

There is insufficient evidence to establish the existence of any Rosary Confraternity before the last quarter of the fifteenth century.

[1] The Confraternity was last reorganized by Pope Leo XIII in 1898 with the Apostolic Constitution, Ubi Primum.

In addition, enrolled members also participate in all the prayers and good works performed by the friars, nuns, sisters, and laity of the Dominican Order.

[3] Since Pope John Paul II, in his 2002 Apostolic Letter, added the five luminous mysteries,[7] members of the Confraternity are encouraged to include that extra weekly Rosary.

It consists in a number of circles of fifteen members who each agree to recite a single decade every day and who thus complete the whole Rosary between them.

In the year 1877, the pope Pius IX subjected all Associations of the Living Rosary to the general of the Dominican Order.