c. 1365
The salutations were grouped into decades and an Our
Father was put before each
decade. This combined the Our Father
and the Angelic Salutation for the first time.
1409 AD
Special thoughts - meditations - were attached for
each Hail
Mary bead.
1470 AD
The Dominican Order spread the form of the "new
rosary"
throughout Western Christendom.
