Who invented the rosary?

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The origin of the rosary dates back to the ninth century where Irish monks would recite and chant the 150 Psalms of the Bible as a major part of their worship.
A Brief History of the Rosary

In Christianity, monks and hermits of the earliest years would gather pebbles and then toss them away, one by one, as they said each prayer or made each genuflection or Sign of the Cross. Later, strings of beads, berries, bone discs, pebbles or knots were employed. An early stage in the development of the Rosary in the West was the recitation by monks of the Psalms of David. The monks would recite them in groupings of 50, 100, or all 150.
http://catholicism.org/rosary-history.html

Tradition does hold that St. Dominic (d. 1221) devised the rosary as we know it. Moved by a vision of our Blessed Mother, he preached the use of the rosary in his missionary work among the Albigensians, who had denied the mystery of Christ.
Fr. William Saunders
 
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