Such imagery continues to be used to assist in rosary meditations.

This perspective can be viewed as the basis of most scriptural rosary meditations.

Pope Pius XII emphasized the benefits of rosary meditations in his encyclical Ingruentium Malorum and wrote:

In contrast to written rosary meditations, the picture texts changed little and the same set of images appeared in woodcuts, engravings, and devotional panels for over a hundred and fifty years.

Saint Teresa of Avila's meditative approach of focusing on "the favor which God bestowed upon us by giving us His only Son" can be viewed as the basis of most scriptural rosary meditations.

The use of "image directed rosary meditation" soon gained popularity and at the end of the 16th century the most widely used rosary meditation in Germany was not a written one, but a picture text.