Sts. Cosmas and Damian were brothers, born in Arabia, who had become eminent for their skill in the science of medicine. Being Christians, they were filled with the spirit of charity and never took money for their services. At Egaea in Cilicia, where they lived, they enjoyed the highest esteem of the people. When the persecution under Diocletian broke out, their very prominence rendered them marked objects of persecution. Being apprehended by order of Lysias, governor of Cilicia, they underwent various torments about the year
St. Cosmas and Damian
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
— Archbishop Fulton Sheen
The Rosary is THE WEAPON.
— St. Padre Pio
The rosary is the scourge of the devil
— Pope Adrian VI
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.
— Pope John XXIII
The rosary is a treasure of graces.
— Pope Paul V
Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the most Holy Rosary.
— Pope Pius IX
If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.
— Pope St. Pius X
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.
— Pope Pius XI
There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.
— Pope Pius XII
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
— St. Francis de Sales
The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our redeemer, who loves His Mother.