Religion is a very important part of our society. In fact, most people believe in some type of God whether that God is a Christian God, a Jewish God, a Mormon God, a Muslim God, or an Islam God. Each religion has a number of symbols and rituals within it. For example the Jewish religion has the Jewish Star and the Menorah. The Christian religion has the cross and Rosary beads that are used when performing the rosary prayer. The Catholic religion has the Rosary as a symbol of the Catholic religion. Most Catholics have many rosaries because rosary beads are created from a variety of materials. The rosary prayer is recited daily at many churches throughout the world. The rosary and the rosary prayer are most closely associated with Rome Italy, the Vatican which is also located in Rome Italy, and Pope John Paul the Second. Most Catholics wear a rosary in order to recite the rosary prayer everyday day. This type of prayer is usually done more then once a day by devout Catholics. In fact many Catholics wear their rosary beads as a fashion statement and for the beauty of rosary beads.

The Rosary which comes from the Latin word rosarium which means rose garden is an important and traditional devotion of the Roman Catholic Church consisting of a set of prayer beads with a system of set prayers The Rosary is a combination of prayer and meditation that is centered around sequences of reciting the Lord’s Prayer followed by ten recitations of the Hail Mary prayer; one such sequence is known as a decade. A complete Rosary involves completing fifteen decades as well as other prefatory and final prayers. Because the Rosary is easier to memorize, it was replaced the prior popular devotional practice that consisted of reciting the 150 Psalms of the Bible in thirds or fifty at a time. Roman Catholics may often wear rosaries as an outward symbol of their faith. The rosary is also sometimes used by other adherents of other Christian denominations such as the Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church, and the Lutheran Church.

A set of rosary beads that are used to recite the rosary prayer contains fifty beads in groups of ten which is called a decade, with a large additional large bead before each decade. The rosary prayer doesn’t have to be recited on a set of rosary beads at all. The rosary prayer can be recited by counting on your fingers or by counting alone with no device at all. The beads can be created from a variety of different materials such as wood, bone, glass, crushed flowers, jet, amber, jasper, precious materials such as coral, rock crystal, and gilded gold and silver. In the 19th and early 20th century they were sometimes created from the seeds of the “rosary pea” or the “bead tree.” Modern rosary beads are most often created out of glass, resin, plastic, or wood. The early rosaries were placed on strong thread which was made out of silk, today’s rosary beads are more often created out of a series of chain linked beads. In addition, it is very common for the rosary beads that are created for the rosary prayer are created out of some material that has some special significance such as olive seeds that supposedly came from the Garden of Gethsemane. Did you know that a set of Blessed Rosary Beads are considered a sacramental.