These files are scanned copies of The Rosary Color Book, drawings by Ettore Fattori, Copyright 1949 by Catechetical Guild.
This little book contains beautiful pictures of the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary for you to color. They were drawn by Mr. Ettore Fattori, a well known Canadian artist. This book will also help you to learn how to say the Rosary in a way that will be pleasing to our Blessed Mother.
Each picture shows a prominent event in Our Lord’s life. On the page opposite the picture is a short explanation which explains this event, tells what it means to you, and suggests how you should imitate this part of Christ’s life.
This coloring book was published in 1949, a long time before the Luminous Mysteries. I do not have any Luminous Mysteries to share. Another website has some beautiful rosary coloring pages (originals), and include 2 of the Luminous Mysteries.
This isn’t easy, and I apologize for the long time to finish this project. I have to scan the images, clean them up, turn them into .jpg files, then merge into a document to export into a .pdf, and then upload to the blog (which can be a nightmare). It’s not a perfect job, but it’s the best that I could do.
Please note that these pages are for home and/or classroom use only.
Rosary Color Book:
April 11, 2008 at 12:32 am |
Thank you for your gift for our children to learn through the prayers and coloring pages the life of Jesus. Patiently waiting for the completion of the Glorious and Luminous Mysteries.
May our Blessed Mother and Lord be with you.
April 11, 2008 at 1:16 am |
I found your site by accident. I teach Sacrament Preparation to middle school kids and I am alway looking for coloring pages that would be of interest to these older children. The pictures in these are gorgeous. My students have had no previous formal religious education, so during the two years I have them, I have to teach them the basics the first year, and then prepare them for their first confession and communion the second year. Thank you.
April 15, 2008 at 8:58 am |
I was wondering if you ever got around to adding more than the joyful and sorrowful coloring pages? I teach 1st grade PSR and would love to use your coloring pages in teaching the rosary and wanted the rest of them.
April 23, 2008 at 2:35 am |
Jenn, this is amazing. I will bookmark these for my four year old. It will be some time before she can truly enjoy them and I’m looking forward to it. Thank you and God bless.
April 23, 2008 at 7:05 am |
Thank you so much for sharing these. They are very nice and my 5 yo daughter will love them.
April 23, 2008 at 10:09 am |
Oh, how wonderful! Thank you so much for doing this and making this available for everyone. I’m printing out a copy for both of my children right now.
April 23, 2008 at 8:15 pm |
Thank you for sharing these. I teach twenty first and second grade students and to celebrate May each child is going to color one mystery. We may even get to desplay them in church on the day do May Crowning!
April 26, 2008 at 11:55 am |
Hi Jennifer,
I found your coloring pages when I was looking for some for my third and fourth grade CCD classes. These are beautiful and I am printing them for my class. I was wondering if you have the Agony in the Garden explanation page. I am showing on my screen two carrying of the cross pages instead of one of each. Hopefully, you’ll have time to check and post if you have the Agony in the Garden explanation page. My class will receive these on Wednesday April 30. Thank you again for the time and dedication you have given to this project. My own five children love these pages. There are truly none that I have found that are more beautiful!
May 12, 2008 at 2:34 am |
Looking for some colouring pages for my sons aged 5 and 3 I came across your site. I couldn’t believe it. When I was four years old I used to spend afternoons after pre-school with my grandmother who was a catechist. She had this book. I used to spend my afternoons tracing the pictures and colouring them in for her. My mother thinks it was the formation for my eventually becoming the coordinator of Religious Education at a large Catholic high school here in Sydney.
Yesterday was Mother’s Day here in Australia and finding these pages just brought back the most powerful memory I have of my dear grandmother.
Thank you so much.
May 12, 2008 at 7:37 pm |
Hey, thanks for this !! We are using it for our CHC rosary lesson!
June 20, 2008 at 10:03 pm |
Wow, I am so moved and thankful by the effort you have put into displaying my grandfathers drawings. I have the very same colouring book, among others, and I cherish every one of them. I think my grandfathers love of the Lord and Our Lady is apparent in his detailed renderings. His work honoured God and he would be humbled, that generations later, the talent that was bestowed upon him would still have a positive impact on the lives of children in the Catholic faith. Thanks again. Your site is wonderful and I will refer to it often.
June 30, 2008 at 5:13 pm |
I love these pages! My sons are 2 and 4, and they color while I say one decade of the rosary. I’m hoping to work us up to more decades eventually, but the coloring gives them something to do while I pray! Thanks for your hard work!!!
July 18, 2008 at 8:22 am |
How beautiful!! Thank you for this site. My Brownie Girl Scouts are earning their Roasary Patch’s and your pages have been a blessing. They love them.
Blessings,
Allison and Scouts
July 27, 2008 at 12:48 am |
Thank you very much for the coloring pictures for the Rosary. I have been hunting for some to use with my third grade class.
August 1, 2008 at 1:11 pm |
I came across your website when looking for coloring pages of the Rosary. You have done an amazing job with all you have put together. I am having a hard time finding any coloring pages of the Luminous Mysteries. Do you have any idea of when you might have them???
August 11, 2008 at 9:34 am |
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these pictures. They are beautiful! We are using the Glorious Mysteries this week as prep for Mary’s Assumption. Thank you so very much!
August 22, 2008 at 9:42 am |
I ran across this website that has the gorious mysteries on it.http://www.sjtbre.org/index_files/page0004.html
September 8, 2008 at 8:30 am |
thank you so much! i am celebrating Our Lady’s birthday w/ my 3, 2, and 7 month old today. what a fun little coloring exercise! and i will bookmark it for future use.
September 11, 2008 at 5:02 am |
Thank you very much for these lovely coloring pictures. I will distribute prints of these to as many kids I can. I myself was working on something similar where in the kids color a bead of a rosary when they do a good deed. When all the beads are colored the rosary becomes a gift for Mother Mary. Thank you again!
October 12, 2008 at 8:49 pm |
Beautiful pictures. Thanks for putting them up on the world wide web!
October 15, 2008 at 4:09 pm |
Thank you so much for this.I’ve been hunting for something on the rosary to use with the children aged 3-8 during our Little Church during the mass and sermon, and this is just what we need!
May God bless you and your family.
October 16, 2008 at 10:32 am |
My sisters and friends and I have greatly appreciated this. God bless!
October 16, 2008 at 10:51 am |
Speaking of the Rosary, a group in TN is encouraging a Rosary Crusade this Saturday at 9am (according to your timezone) for the end of abortion. Here is the website: http://www.saintmichaelthearchangelorganization.org
Spread the news!
March 13, 2009 at 7:33 pm |
Thank you very much for your time and efforts to make this wonderful rosary teaching aid available. I have been searching for something just like this for my 2nd grade class. May God bless you and yours.
April 3, 2009 at 5:44 am |
Thank you VERY much for putting together this wonderful rosary coloring book! What beautiful pictures and descriptions of each of the mysteries! I am a Catechist and have copied it for each of my first grade students, as this year’s theme is “Walking with Mary”. I’ve been searching for something just like this…thank you again and God Bless!
April 28, 2009 at 5:19 pm |
Thank you so much for these-God is so good becuase I couldn’t find much for my 3rd grade class on Mary’s May Crowning-them voila! Now I have 15 wonderful lessons and art and too! They are beautiful and so are you for working so hard to put them out here… God bless you and your family always!
May 6, 2009 at 11:43 am |
I have just found your site and am thrilled by what I have found. I teach 1st grade CCD and we end each year by praying the rosary. This will be a great take home for the children to have. I also homeschool my own children and they too will enjoy having a copy. Thanks so much
May 16, 2009 at 6:57 am |
is it okay to use the colouring pages for a childrens rosary group in a parish? (not home or school) your site is amazing and a definite answer to my prayer for inspiration!!
love and God Bless
Cherie
July 22, 2009 at 8:18 pm |
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS BOOKLET AVAILABLE. I AM TEACHING VBS AND THE CHILDREN MADE ROSARIES BUT I REALIZED THAT MOST OF THEM DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. THESE BOOKLETS WILL HELP THEM LEARN TO PRAY THE ROASRY. THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR HARD WORK. LINDA
September 23, 2009 at 8:11 pm |
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October 24, 2009 at 1:28 pm |
Thank you so much for this booklet! The images are beautiful–what a great way to teach the Rosary!
October 27, 2009 at 9:49 am |
Thank you so much for these wonderful coloring pages. I’m from Guatemala City and our kids are loving them.
October 29, 2009 at 10:54 am |
Ettore Fattori was my Great Grandfather. Thankyou. For scanning these and putting them up. Thankyou