Catholic prayers

The prayers gathered here span roughly eighteen centuries of Roman Catholic devotion. The oldest is drawn from Tertullian of Carthage, who died around 220 AD and was the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin. The most recent is the Fatima Prayer, which entered the Rosary after the reported apparitions of 1917. Between those two points sit the Marian prayers most Catholics learn first, the Hail Mary, the Memorare, the Salve Regina and the Angelus; the Eucharistic hymns Thomas Aquinas composed in 1264 for the new feast of Corpus Christi; the four Acts of contrition, faith, hope and love; the litanies of the Blessed Virgin and of the Sacred Heart; and the prayers to Michael, Joseph, Anthony and the guardian angel. Where a Latin original exists, each page carries it beside the English, along with the printed source the wording follows.