The Church has had many different Marian feast days throughout its history that have “kind of ebbed and flowed,” said Father Tom Margevicius, director of worship for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Some remain, “and … one of them that we love to observe,” he said, is Our Lady of the Rosary Oct. 7.
A quarter-mile long sea of people carrying candles and praying in procession filled half of John Ireland Boulevard between the State Capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul Oct. 13
In a homily following the annual May rosary procession, Archbishop John Nienstedt called on Catholics to pray the rosary daily through July 4 for the success of efforts to support and protect religious freedom in the United States.
