What was the point in adding them?
SEE the mystery in your minds eye
What was the point in adding them?
There is some inconsistency: instead of adding something, the New Rosary should have the redundant repetitions cut away, like reducing the decades to a maximum of three 'Hail Mary' per mystery!It completes the Vat2 Trifecta: New Mass, New Office, New Rosary.
the oldest known manuscript about the "Marian psalter", copied by Cistercian nuns in Germany in 1300, gave 98 clauses to be said with the Ave Marias, to recall aspects of the life of Jesus.
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