Cardinal merry del val wikipedia

Catholic prayer

The Litany of Humility^[1] is a Catholicprayer that the penitent be granted the virtue of humility. A litany is a form of prayer with a repeated responsive petition; it is not used in public liturgical services of the Catholic Church, but in private devotions of adherents.

This litany is commonly attributed to Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val (1865-1930), Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See under Pope Pius X.^[2]C. S. Lewis attributed its composition to Merry del Val in a March 1948 letter to Don Giovanni Calabria.^[3] Father Charles Belmonte was inspired by the writings of Merry del Val and included it in a collection, the Handbook of Prayers (Studium Theologiae Foundation, Manila, 1986, and in a later edition by Midwest Theological Forum, Chicago, US), and described it as "attributed to Card.

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Merry del Val". Subsequent copyists wrote simply: "by Card. Merry del Val".^[4]

A "Litany to Obtain Holy