October is the Month of the Holy Rosary, and in recent years it has become a time when Christians congregate ever more fervently to offer prayer of intercession and reparation through the Blessed Virgin May. Last year witnessed the arrival of the Rosary on the Coast in Britain, an event that drew 10,000 pilgrims to pray together in 250 locations.
The movement is international and gatherings coincide with the October 13 anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima more than a century ago.
For British Catholics, this October 13 is, of course, the date when Pope Francis will canonise John Henry Newman as England’s next saint, so there are few rosary gatherings being organised in any sizable numbers in the country this year.
