Does an Angel Finish Your Rosary If You Fall Asleep? Archbishop Cordileone Shares a Childhood Memory

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shared memories of his childhood experiences learning to pray the Rosary.

Speaking to the Register, Cordileone recalled that his first exposure to the prayer occurred during family vigils for deceased loved ones. As a young child in San Diego, he would hold rosaries around his fingers during prayer before he fully understood how to pray them. During his First Holy Communion, he received two different rosaries: a black one contained in a missal from his godparents and a multicolored one from the nuns at his parish.

Cordileone also remembered praying the Rosary in bed when he could not sleep. He noted that he would often fall asleep before finishing the prayers and would wake up to find the rosary under his pillow or elsewhere in his bedding.