1400 - 1500
AD
The thoughts or meditations on
the 150 Hail Mary beads
took the form of woodcuts
(graphic pictures). This exhausted
the practice easily because of
the volume of pictures. Picture
rosaries were shortened to one
picture/thought for each Our
Father as it is today.
1700s
St. Louis de Montfort wrote the
most common set of
meditations for the
rosary used today.
Early 1900s
A movement was begun attempting
to
return to a form of
the medieval rosary
- one thought for
each Hail Mary.