Note 579 — Chapter II · THE SAINTS’ DAYS (continued 2)
Reading edition
The originators of this form of prayer were Dominic of Prussia and Adolf of Essen, two monks of the Charterhouse in Treves in the fifteenth century. Th. Esser, Beitrag zur Gesch. des Rosenkranzes, Katholik, 1897, ii. 409 seqq., and 1904, ii. 98 seqq.