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　I begin to think that I took a trip to Ireland Spain Portugal France to be May every year 30 years ago. I was learning it in Rome, but have traveled alone using summer vacation. It was traveling alone that was pleasant while visiting the monastery of the Paul society in each country, and being taken care of.

 

  Only Ireland is a Carmelite monastery. The monastery where reform of the origin recurrence extended to usually gained a bare foot (I take out bare foot -) Carmelite monastery and the names to a head, but father who did that director when reform was inferior to Ireland spoke it. It is said that Spanish famous sacred woman, Saint tele dia of the a bilah and St. John of the cross took the role on the center of the reform. I was taken care of by the monastic order for three months. The church of Ireland was different from the enthusiastic Maria faith of Spain, too, but a rosary was advocated prior to mass from 5:00 p.m. while ichikaesa twinkled. As for English and Italian and Spanish of the Ave Maria that it is gathered up well praying and is advocated rhythm well; felt.

 

  When many candles are even always turned on before images of Maria and perform mass, in Spain Portugal, the scene which advocated Rosary in a big voice in front of Maria is remembered. Of course it was that it had finished turning out that it was illogical, but father of the monastery of Madrid spoke it when I did not have it reveal to an enthusiastic believer.

 

  When it becomes the moon of Maria of May, I heat up more. Holy Mother line is carried out for the beginning of the month or the end. At that time, a thing to wear in total was had made newly and, as it were, became like a fashion show. Of course the Saint ingredients are polished to a bright shine and think that the Rosary of the number of the family might probably increase in the home every year by saying that Rosary is selling like hot cakes. It was such natural for the Rosary to advocate it, but was said to be it in Italy when the Rosary had you put it in the coffin when I died.

 

  It was Europe where, anyway, a rosary was valued, but I had Rosary in a hand while moving a mouth bleatingly when elderly people in the home had time, and the figure which prayed was scenery to remain in the heart deeply. When my mother had a trouble since I was young, I always prayed when a child caused a problem. When the state that a rugged hand of mother working on a farm fingers Rosary advocates Rosary by oneself, I remember it for some reason. I seemed to particularly always pray for children in later years.

 

  Originally, as for the Rosary, various opinions are recited about the origin, but originally there is the opinion which began with a religious life.

 

  In a monastery, there were the times shared with a song corps monk by a labor monk. It is about a Catholic priest that I say a song corps monk. As for them, prayer decided in a divine office as well as a current Catholic priest was advocated in Latin according to time. However, the labor monk had the person who did not understand a letter in the beginning and seemed to send every day according to dozens of times of Ave Maria, Paternoster dozens of times, rule of dozens of times of doxologies in substitution for a divine office.

 

  The person who devised it soon appeared and put a hollow in the tree slim first by saying that I counted it only with a finger and must not be wrong and might count it. I remember that I saw such a tree was displayed at a monastery of the Benedict society in Italy. It is just imagination, but this may be because it was inconvenient to carry it afterwards. It might become the current form I prepared the knot into the string, and to have fingered it.

 

  It was a digression, but my mother was a person from Maria kino to like very much, too. I entered "the third meeting of the Francisco society" what you thought of and prayed for seven Rosary well. I think that it was written that the monk who is not a Catholic priest advocates 70 times of Hail Maries in the early rules of a society of St. Francisco of ashiji in substitution for each seimu. So I might understand it strangely when I saw seven Rosary of mother.

 

  In that way when the times changed, general people hung a rosary to the neck as accessories, and the Rosary that developed came to walk. The person who made a figure of the sister did such an appearance in a drama of TV magnificently and met people who were dressed in such clothes in Italy, and saw the sights.

 

  The Rosary is still old days and a tool of the prayer not to change. It is not an accessory. It is Saint ingredients of the prayer for the necessary agency for Virgin Mary now. I want to value it.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi