About This Site
A free place of prayer, offered with love.
The Badolato Family Rosary is a public resource offered with devotion to the path of Jesus Christ and the lessons of the Gospel. It is dedicated with love by Andrew and Melissa Badolato — to their sons, Robert, Billy, and Michael; to their grandsons, Noah and Beau; and to all who wish to pray the Holy Rosary and discover the grace of the Gospel in the Catholic tradition.
It is offered too in the spirit of St. Michael the Archangel — the strength, groundedness, and life-changing joy of walking his path — and in trust of the Holy Spirit's guidance and inspiration for each day's direction.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
A note on our sources
The prayers and Mysteries on this site are drawn from Catholic materials that carry a Nihil Obstat and/or Imprimatur — the Church's traditional markings that a work contains nothing contrary to Catholic faith or morals. This website itself is a private family compilation for prayer and devotion, presented in fidelity to those approved sources.
What do Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur mean?
Nihil Obstat (“nothing stands in the way”) — the declaration of a Church-appointed censor that a work contains nothing contrary to Catholic faith or morals.
Imprimatur (“let it be printed”) — the formal permission of a bishop allowing the work to be published.
In everyday language: the Church has checked these sources carefully, and they are safe for Catholics to use.
With Gratitude
Every photograph and work of art on this site comes from the public domain or an open Creative Commons source, gathered from Wikimedia Commons and similar freely licensed collections. None of the photographs are our own. Where a work has a known artist, the artist and the church or museum that holds it are named beneath the image.
Prayer texts and Mystery structure: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (usccb.org); Marians of the Immaculate Conception, National Shrine of The Divine Mercy (thedivinemercy.org); New Advent (newadvent.org). Scripture excerpts from the New American Bible as presented by the USCCB. Artwork: every painting on this site is in the public domain (or released under CC0) and was obtained from Wikimedia Commons — The Annunciation, Fra Angelico, c. 1426 (Museo del Prado); Christ Crucified, Diego Velázquez, c. 1632 (Museo del Prado); The Resurrection, Piero della Francesca, c. 1465 (Sansepolcro); The Baptism of Christ, Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1475 (Uffizi); The Madonna of the Rosary, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1650; The Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pompeo Batoni, 1767 (CC0); The Savior with the Eucharist, Juan de Juanes, c. 1545–1550 (Museo del Prado); The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan, Guido Reni, 1635; St. Joseph and the Christ Child, Guido Reni, c. 1640; The Madonna of the Rosary, Caravaggio, 1607 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). The prayer cards for St. Pio of Pietrelcina and Pope St. John Paul II carry no photograph: each would require a 20th-century image whose copyright we have not been able to confirm, and we would rather leave that space empty than use one we cannot credit honestly.
If you are the rights-holder of any image here and wish it credited differently or removed, the family will gladly comply.