The «planetary rosary for peace» carries on, in part, an appeal made by L’Osservatore Romano the day after the Iraqi war started. That appeal also called for round-the-clock recitation of the rosary for peace.
The Vatican semiofficial newspaper said the moment had arrived «to intensify supplication to the Queen of Peace so that she would intercede before her Son, the Prince of Peace.»
The proposal was made on the day that Iraqi Catholics and other Christians consecrated their country to Mary, the Queen of Peace, in St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Baghdad.
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