Nearly 30 rosaries from Estelle Semmes Monic’s collection were on display Tuesday at Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic ...

The Rosary Beads The physical "rosary" is not a Christian invention. It was, and is, essentially a tallying device, known in Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. It has had the same function in Christianity ...

and become an ordained Catholic priest. The rosary has the power to set souls free because it is, in essence, the Bible on a set of beads. It is mobile and can be prayed practically anywhere.

In many Catholic families ... There are, at present, many legitimate ways of introducing the Rosary, in different parts of the Church and following different customs. They should all appropriately ...

That’s from a statement put out this week by the . . . devout . . . Catholic ... to shove my rosary beads down their throat.” But will he clear his own to condemn the spate of church burnings ...

(No specific Marian devotion was mentioned, because there were different expressions of Marian devotion in the Eastern and Western rites of the Catholic Church. The rosary, so characteristic ...

Rosary beads close rosaryA string of beads used as a method of prayer or meditation, for example by Buddhists and Roman Catholic Christians. are an aid to worship that focus on a set order of prayers.