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Denver Newsroom, Oct 18, 2022 / 14:47 pm (CNA).
Twenty years ago, St. John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, adding five Luminous Mysteries to the traditional 15 meditated on in the rosary.T… […]

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