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Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s Living Peace Rosary comes to Surrey parish


https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/archbishop-fulton-sheen-s-living-peace-rosary-comes-to-surrey-parish

By Nicholas Elbers

Rosaries come in all shapes and sizes, but few are made of giant crochet roses like the one created for the World Living Peace Rosary recently held at St. Matthew’s Parish in Surrey.

The Living Peace Rosary was founded by Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the well-known Catholic broadcaster and preacher, in 1951 while he was serving as the national director for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Vatican officials said in November that Archbishop Sheen’s cause for sainthood remains on track, after additional review following delays in his beatification process.

Each decade of the Rosary has a colour and theme related to evangelization efforts worldwide. Green represents the forests and grasslands of Africa; blue, the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacific; white symbolizes Europe, the seat of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world; red calls to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas; and yellow symbolizes the morning light of Asia in the East.

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