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Author Topic: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council  (Read 905 times)

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Offline Simeon

Re: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2026, 08:17:07 AM »
Quote from: icarlytradcath on June 25, 2026, 06:56:12 AM
It's in passing but in that same book Montfort has a fictional interlocutor say "What on earth are you wearing it on your belt for, fanatic that you are? Why don’t you go the whole way and wear it around your neck like the Spaniards?" which presumably means that that was a popular thing to do, at least in Spain, when the book was written.

He also says that in 1679 Pope Innocent XI granted to those who openly wear the rosary out of devotion and to set a good example: a hundred days' indulgence.

It might be worth noting that we do live in a different age. Our culture is hideous, satanic, and pagan, and examples abound of true monsters wearing the Rosary around their necks as a talisman or mockery of God and our Lady. 

Therefore it is prudent to wear the Rosary around the neck under one's clothing. We receive the indulgence and our reward in secret, and deprive the world of an opportunity to come to false and unsavory conclusions. 
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Offline icarlytradcath

Re: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2026, 09:24:21 AM »
Quote from: Simeon on June 25, 2026, 08:17:07 AM
It might be worth noting that we do live in a different age. Our culture is hideous, satanic, and pagan, and examples abound of true monsters wearing the Rosary around their necks as a talisman or mockery of God and our Lady.

Therefore it is prudent to wear the Rosary around the neck under one's clothing. We receive the indulgence and our reward in secret, and deprive the world of an opportunity to come to false and unsavory conclusions.
Maybe the USA really is that different but IMHO I think the benefits outweigh any possible misunderstandings, which the context usually makes clear: if a lady works at a gas station and wears a Rosary to work nobody thinks she's some gangbanger. She's reminded to pray, keeps her from sin in conversation, even if it's just out of shame, and some coworkers or people may ask about it and learn about Catholicism.
Also the rosaries I've seen here used for fashion are almost never actual rosaries they're jewelry that looks like a rosary but you couldn't really use comfortably. So that also clears up misunderstandings.

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Offline TomGubbinsKimmage

Re: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2026, 12:47:47 PM »
Quote from: Simeon on June 25, 2026, 08:17:07 AM
It might be worth noting that we do live in a different age. Our culture is hideous, satanic, and pagan, and examples abound of true monsters wearing the Rosary around their necks as a talisman or mockery of God and our Lady.

Therefore it is prudent to wear the Rosary around the neck under one's clothing. We receive the indulgence and our reward in secret, and deprive the world of an opportunity to come to false and unsavory conclusions.


There are profanations of the Blessed Sacrament all the time.

Does that mean we should stop adoring it?


In fact you have made the contrary case when one thinks about it. The fact that people wear it disrespectfully is ALL THE MORE REASON to wear it around our necks.
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Offline OSanctissimus

Re: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council
« Reply #18 on: Today at 04:04:09 PM »
Quote from: Pax Vobis on June 24, 2026, 07:36:34 PM
It was not the norm to wear it around the neck, over exterior clothing.  You’re conflating two things — openly wearing it on the belt or on a sword/forearm vs around the neck.  It’s not the same thing. 
As in: the neck and the forearm are not the same body part?  Or as in:  wearing it on one's forearm IS EVEN MORE OPEN than wearing it on one's neck?? :incense:

Because clearly the norm of open-carry is being demonstrated by the examples given.
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Offline OSanctissimus

Re: Evidence that Open-Rosary-Wearing was Normative in Days before the Council
« Reply #19 on: Today at 04:13:28 PM »
Quote from: Pax Vobis on June 24, 2026, 10:48:45 PM
If you want to wear something around your neck that is OPENLY Catholic, then wear something who’s PURPOSE it is to be worn around the neck — ie, a scapular, a crucifix, a miraculous medal, etc.  These things are DESIGNED to be necklaces.  A rosary is not a necklace.  It’s not its purpose.

Where are you getting this idea from?   Where are any Catholics getting this idea from?   That is my point.

The idea that a rosary wasn't supposed to be worn openly appears to be a post-Vatican 2 innovation.       

Hence, the original post.  

There are numerous pre V2 sources demonstrating the opposite.   So it would seem people were duped into believing that the couldn't or shouldn't openly wear their rosaries, when openly wearing a rosary was ACTUALLY AN INDULGENCED PRACTICE, previously. 
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