Rosary Brotherhood
The Rosary Brotherhood is a community of lay people founded by Dominicans in the 15th century (lay brotherhood). Its aim is to deepen the piety of broad masses through praying the rosary .
history
The first Rosary Brotherhood (Confratria Psalterii DN Jesu Christi et Mariae Virginis) was founded in 1468 in Douai in Flanders by the Dominican priest Alanus de Rupe (* around 1428 † 1475), also called Alain de la Roche, the second in 1475 in Cologne by the Dominican inquisitor Jakob Sprenger (* 1436/38 † 1495) and the later bishop Michael Francisci de Insulis (* around 1435 † 1502), also known as Michel François or Michael Franzen. The latter had previously been a member of the Dominican convent of Saint-Jacques in Paris as part of his studies in 1461 and a member of the Douai convent in 1465 and was a student of Rupe in both places.
From Cologne, the first documented and in the following years largest German community of this kind, which even Emperor Friedrich III. , his wife Eleonora and his son Maximilian I belonged, the Rosary Brotherhood spread rapidly over Germany, Holland and Flanders.
Existing rosary fraternities
- Rosary brotherhood to the Lord in misery and to the immaculate received mother from Sieg Wigratzbad
- Rosary Brotherhood Aiterhofen
- Rosary Brotherhood Auerbach
- Rosary Brotherhood Eggolsheim
- Rosary Brotherhood of God Help Brotherhood Stade
- Rosary Brotherhood Dasing
- Rosary Brotherhood at the Würzburg Marienkapelle
- Rosary Brotherhood Landeck (Tyrol)
See also
- Brotherhood Church of St. Johann , late baroque hall church for a rosary brotherhood
- Rosenkranzbruderschaft Lindlar, existed from approx. 1534 to approx. 1858. The brotherhood books have been preserved.