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22kt gold over silver with gold 6mm beads
Item # VP105/5/38
$110.00
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Item is shown 2x to show details 22kt gold over silver with gold 6mm beads Item # VP105/5/38 $110.00
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Bead history rosary Prayer beads, of which rosaries
are one type, have been used by many peoples, for almost four thousand years of
known history, to count or "tell" their prayers. Roman Catholic use
of prayer beads dates, in history from the fourth century A.D., when they were
used to count Hail Mary's , Our Father's and other prayers. Historically, the
modern Catholic rosary beads are thought to have originated between 1409 and 1415
A.D. when a Carthusian monk named Dominic, (not to be confused with Saint Dominic),
began the practice of meditating on the life of Jesus Christ while repeating Ave
Maria's, telling them on his beads. Many Catholics believe the story that the
rosary was given to Saint Dominic by Mary in a miraculous vision in 1214. In Catholic
history, the Dominican Order of Preachers were the primary advocates for the praying
of rosary beads from 1468, and the Dominican legend may have started because of
this intertwining of the rosary with the order's history. The word rosary comes
from the German "rosenkranz" which means rose garden or wreath. There
is, in Marian history, a legend that a monk once said 50 Ave Maries and they turned
into roses, a "rosenkranz". The word rosary also has a significant Latin
history. In Latin, "rosarium" can mean either a rose garden or an anthology
of prayer. The use of the word beads to refer to the rosary may come from the
Dutch word for prayer, "bede." The words are connected because each
bead means a prayer. Historically, the rosary was first said while meditating
on fifty clauses about the life of Jesus Christ. In 1483, a Dominican prayer book
reduced the fifty meditations to just fifteen mysteries, which was passed down
in history and is the same way Catholics pray rosary beads today. The rosary continues
to be a beloved prayer practice for many Roman Catholics. In their religious history,
Jesus came onto the world through Mary, and so she is revered as their first intercessor.
The act of praying to her name brings them closer to all that is holy, closer
to God. |