Leo High School - Leo Lion Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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,KT V,-X .. .- In the early days of the Church, the hermits and desert fathers who could not recite the psalms of the Holy Office, instead said one Our Father and Hail Mary for each psalm. At first, seeds or pebbles, later pegs stuck in boards, were used as aids in counting the one hundred Fifty prayers. About the year 1200 someone conceived the idea of stringing the heads on a cord, and these are known as Patemostersf uOur Lady's Psalterf' uRosario,u uchapeletn and Corona, in the order mentioned. Of the medieval rosaries some had ten heads, others thirty or forty, still others, sixty-three, one hundred and four, and one hundred fifty heads. By the beginning of the seventeenth century the rosary was almost com- pletely stahiiized. Today, again, the rosary is heing used with as much fervor as it ever had been in medieval Europe. The Papal Encyclical released last Octoher was responsihie for a greater intensifying of our devotion to Mary. As the Holy Father said: H ..... the Rosary, recited in common, assembles hefore the image of the Virgin, in an admirable union of hearts, the parents and their children, who come hack from their daily worlc. It unites them piousiy with those ahsent and those dead. It links them more tightly in a sweet hond of love, with the most Holy Virgin, who, like a loving mother, will come among her children hestowing upon them an ahundance of the gifts of concord and family peacef,

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REV. BR. M. S. TOUHY ON ms args, Jygir T I OUR pt e to dedicate ttiis, the 1952 Lion, to Brother Michael S. Toutay as a t en of resp nd esteem on the part of the wtiote student body of treo. On Ju - 29, 19 Brottier Toutuy celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a memtner of ttie Ctiri an Bret of Ireland and thus completed Fifty years of zealous devotion tol the educati of y . Space a -' not attow a futt treatment ot Brother Tout1y's labors during att ttmose years. Cnty the Divine twaster Himself can fully catcutate the amount of good accom- ptistaed and its ricti store of merit laid up for eternity Ivy one who tias spent a lifetime in His service. During the Five years ttiat Brother Toutiy has been at Leo, he has greatly impressed us try tiis untiring devotion to duty, his readiness to oblige at att times, and his personal interest in our welfare.