History of the Rosary of Blessed Alanus, some 300 years later. During the middle ages, evidence suggests that both the Our Father and the Hail Mary were recited with prayer beads. In 13th century Paris, four trade guilds existed of prayer bead makers, who were referred to as "paternosterers", and the beads were referred to as "paternosters", suggesting a continued link between the Our Father ("Pater noster" in Latin) and the prayer beads. In the 12th century, the rule of the English anchorites, the "Ancrene Wisse", specified how groups of 50 Hail Marys were to be broken into five decades of ten Hail Marys
Mary Star of the Sea Church, Grand Case Latin rite and depends on the Diocese of Basse-Terre ("Dioecesis Imae Telluris et Petrirostrensis" or "Diocèse de Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre") which was created in 1850 by Pope Pius IX and has its Seat in the Island of Guadalupe of which until 2007 also depended all the French territory of the Island of San Martin. Its construction began in parallel to the Catholic Church of Marigot (dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours) in the 1940s. As its name suggests it is dedicated to Saint Mary the mother of God in her invocation of Mary Star of the Sea (called in Latin: