INDEX

click on the Chapter and go to the description of the listed subjects. The number between brackets indicates which version of the chapter it is.
Chapter 1 (3): EARLY WITNESSES OF PRAYER BEADS
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  • About collecting rosaries
  • Recommended books
  • Buying rosaries on the internet
  • Chaplet of Our Lady of Metten
  • Earliest witnesses of prayer beads
  • St. Hedwig and Lady Godiva
  • The Thong-and-Ring prayer device
  • Remnants of bone ring production
  • Rosaries of Notre Dame de la Delivrande
  • Fleur-de-lis as a symbol of the Virgin Mary
  • The Rosary of Blessed Thomas de Biville
  • Adrien Vachette, French medalmaker
  • The Rosary of Notre Dame Sur-Vire
Chapter 2A (4): THE ROSARY AS OBJECT OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND FASHION
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  • The Medieval rosary as an object of fashion and sign of Catholicism
  • Women's and men's prayer beads
  • Mannsbeter
  • The rosary in Medieval paintings is not restricted to time
  • Virgo inter virgines
  • Prayer beads for Mary and the Child Jesus
  • The rosary marking the clergy with immoral behaviour
  • The Pillar-biters of Haarlem
Chapter 2B (2): THE ROSARY IN MEDIEVAL ART

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  • The rosary in the work of Medieval artists
  • Jheronimus Bosch
  • The Death of the Miser
  • The Hay Wagon
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Albrecht Durer
  • Albrecht Durer the Elder
  • Saint Jerome with prayer beads
Chapter 3A (1): SAINT DOMINIC AND THE EARLIEST TIMES OF THE ROSARY
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  • Rosarium and Psalterium
  • Saint Dominique de Guzman
  • Alanus de Rupe
  • Rosary Brotherhood
  • Carthusion rosary with St. Bruno
  • How the Rosary came to be ascribed to Saint Dominic
  • Clausulae method of praying the rosary
  • The Roman Rite of the pendant
  • Rosary of the most Holy Name of Jesus
  • The Rosary of St. Dominic
  • A Chaplet of Saint Dominic in Soriano
Chapter 3B (1): CARTHUSIAN AND CARMELITE ROSE PETAL CHAPLETS
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  • Souvenir Chaplet of La Grande Chartreuse
  • Carthusian Chaplets of Aula Dei in Zaragoza
  • Carthusian Chaplet of Miraflores in Burgos
  • Carmelite Chaplet of Burgos
Chapter 4 (2): THE ROSARY IN MEMORABLE BATTLES
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  • The Battle of Covadonga
  • Souvenir-rosaries of O.L. of Covadonga
  • The fictional Battle of Clavijo
  • Saint James (Iacobus) the Matamoros
  • The Battle of Lepanto
  • The 7 October Feast of O.L. of the Rosary
  • The Battle at Manila Bay
  • Our Lady of the Rosary La Naval de Manila

Under study.

Chapter 6A (2): THE PENDANT and SIX DECADE ROSARIES
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  • Origin of the pendant: the fusion hypothesis
  • The Chaplet of the Three Aves of St. Gertrude
  • Novena of the Three Hail Marys
  • Origin of the pendant: the copy hypothesis
  • Corona Beatae Mariae Virginis
  • Six decade rosaries
  • Brigittine Rosary
  • Carmelite Rosary
  • The Hermits of Tuscany
Chapter 6B (4): MORE ABOUT SIX DECADE ROSARIES
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  • Caravaca Rosary including a remarkable story
  • Saint John of the Cross
  • Rosaries with a traditional Caravaca cross
  • Rosary of John Babtist de la Salle
  • Bethlehem scapular rosary
  • Lourdes Rosary
  • Six-decade Wall Rosaries of other places of pilgrimage
  • Regional occurrence of six decade Bavarian/Swabian rosary
Chapter 7 (1): ROSARIES AND SOME OF THE OLD STORIES
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  • The Franciscan Crown or Seraphic Rosary
  • Rosary of the Seven Joys of Mary
  • Crown of the Five Psalms
  • The Josbert legend
  • The Ancrene Riwle
  • Crown of the Holy Name of Mary
  • Rosaries of Juana de la Cruz
  • Cuentas benditas and cuantas tocadas
  • Rosaries in Spain after Juana de la Cruz
  • The Inquisition
  • Crown of the Twelve Stars
  • Crown accoding to St. Jozef of Calasanza
  • Cornelius a Lapide
  • The Crown and Marian slavery
  • Crown of Twelve Stars of Our Lady of Mercy
  • Crown of Mary Immaculate Conception
Chapter 8A (2): WORLD EXPLORATION AND REFORMATION
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  • The World Exploration
  • Chaplet of Our Lady of the Snows
  • Gil Cordero and the Monastery of San Jeronimo
  • Prayer beads of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Spain
  • Chaplet of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico
  • Pro-Life Movement
  • Rosary of the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary
  • Rosary of the Unborn
  • 'Let-me-live' rosary
  • The Reformation
  • Chaplet of the Holy Martyrs of Gorcum
  • Lutheran prayer beads
  • Angelican Crown
Chapter 8B (3): ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CREDO-CROSS IN THE ROSARY
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  • The Credo-Cross (CC) in Germany and Spain
  • Metal Chaplet with CC of Our Lady of Nuria and of Font-Romeu, Gil Abat and John the Baptist
  • Appearance of the CC and the Jesuits
  • Peter Canisius and the Cathechism
  • The CC as a sign of Counter-Reformation
  • The Jesuits and the Rosary
  • The disappearance of the CC
  • Dutch habit rosaries with a CC
  • Similar Spanish and Alpine metal Chaplets
Chapter 8C (1): CATALAN CHAPLETS WITH A CREDO-CROSS
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  • Catalan Chaplets with a Credo-Cross
  • Nuestra Senora de Nuria,
  • Nuestra Senora de la Horta
  • Nuestra Senora del Tura
  • Nuestra Senora del Collel
  • Nuestra Senora de Montserrat
  • Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados
  • Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion de Guanabacoa
  • French 1900 handmade rosary Spanish style
Chapter 8D (1): ROSARIES AND CHAPLETS IN ENGLAND
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  • Anglo-Saxon Missionaries
  • Early Christian Faith in England
  • A Rosary with a Cuthbertus cross
  • The oldest written record of using prayer beads
  • Consequences of the Reformation
  • An English gold Rosary of about 1500
  • The rosary of Mary Queen of Scots
  • A record of rosary prayers of the 19th century
  • Rosaries devoted to Our Lady of Walsingham
Chapter 9A (3): JESUIT HABIT ROSARIES AND THE IHS-SIGN
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  • Jesuit habit rosary, St. Ignatius Loyola
  • Jesuit habit rosary, Mater Ter Admirabilis
  • Jesuit habit rosary, St. Stanislaos Kostka
  • Rosaries resembling Jesuit habit rosaries
  • An Exorcist Rosary with blackberry beads
  • The IHS protection shield
  • The Spanish IHS-Chaplet
Chapter 9B (7): ROSARIES RELATED TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE FAR EAST
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  • An Indochinese Missionary Chaplet
  • Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris
  • Chaplet devoted to St Valentin Berri Ochoa
  • The Rosary of St. Francis Xavier
  • Rosaries and the 26 Holy Martyrs of Japan
  • Saint Paul Miki and his companions
  • Dominican Chaplets with three puttos
  • Chaplets with one or two puttos
  • Rudraksha rosaries

In progress
Chapter 10A (3): SPANISH ROSARIES IN SPAIN
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  • Evolutionary view of Rosary and Chaplet
  • The Spanish Rosary
  • Way to pray the Spanish Rosary
  • The Riddle of the Dominican Chaplet
  • Examples of Spanish Rosaries
  • Spanish 'Colonial' Rosary
  • Rosario Isabellino with a double-headed eagle centerpiece - Queen Isabella II
  • A Chaplet for St. Antonio Claret
  • A Spanish Dominican Habit Rosary
  • Our Lady of the Pilar, of Guadalupe, of Ransom, of Fuencisla, of the Sagrario
  • Rosary medals of places of pilgrimage
  • Rosaries with the Spanish composition from outside Spain
Chapter 10B (3): SPANISH ROSARIES IN TRADE CENTRES AND SPANISH COLONIES

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  • The Galway Rosary
  • The Philippine tambourin necklace
  • Chaplet of Santo Nino de Cebu de Filipinas
  • The Riddle of the Mary Rose
  • Rosaries from the New World
  • Rosaries of Nuestra Senora de Atocha
  • Rosaries of the 1715 Fleet Society
  • Gold Dominican Chaplets with 'credo-cross' pendant and three beads in the chain
  • 17th century rosaries from the Spanish American colonies presented at TEFAF
  • A Spanish colonial rosary from Cuba
  • Asociacion de Socorros Mutuos de Guanabacoa
Chapter 11A (5): CHAPLETS OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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  • Lost chaplet of the Holy Trinity
  • Order of the Holy Trinity
  • Order of the Mercedarians
  • The Trisagion
  • Spain as the land of the Trisagion
  • The Trisagion without entre-deux
  • The Trisagion of Gossweinstein
Chapter 11B (2): CHAPLETS OF THE HOLY INFANT JESUS
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  • Little Crown of the Holy Child Jesus
  • Santo Nino of Cebu
  • Chaplet of the Holy Infant of Beaune
  • Little Crown of the Holy Infant of Prague
  • Crown of the Infant of Prague in Tongeren
  • The Guardian Cross
  • Chaplet from the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, Florida
  • Little Crown of Bambino Gesu of Arenzano
  • Way to pray the Little Crown
  • Miniature Chaplets of the Holy Child Jesus
  • Chaplet of the Confraternity of the Holy Child Jesus - Brother Evagrius
  • Brothers of the Christian Schools in Palestine
Chapter 12 (2): BEADS OF JOAN OF VALOIS, JOAN OF JESUS and the THREEFOLD ROSARY
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  • The Triple Crown of St. Joan of Valois
  • Order of the Annunciation of the Bl. Virgin Mary
  • Order of the Peace
  • Chaplet of the Ten Virtues of Our Lady
  • Rosary of the Seven Joys of Mary
  • Joan Baptist of Neerinckx, St. Joan of Jesus
  • The Reform of Limburg
  • Rosary on the Mysteries of the Passion of Jesus
  • Habit Rosary of the Franciscans of Oirschot
  • Rosary of the most Holy Name
  • Habit Rosary of the Franciscans of Veghel
  • Crown of the Holy Trinity
  • Little Chaplet of St. Joan of Jesus
  • The Threefold Rosary
Chapter 13A (5): ROSARIES IN TIMES TROUBLED BY SORCERES AND DEMONS
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  • Marie des Vallees and her rosary prayers
  • Chaplet in honour of St Jean Eudes
  • Congregation of Jesus and Mary
  • The exorcist Jean-Francois Gaschon
  • Chaplets for St John Francis Regis
  • About the Chaplet owned by Jean-Francois Gaschon
  • The Witch's rosaries (heksenpaternosters)
  • Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp
  • The Peerdenpaternoster (horse rosary)
  • Wannes Raps by Ernest Claes and Felix Timmermans
  • Water Chestnut -exorcist rosaries
  • trapa natans and trapa bicornus
  • The Natternwirbel snake vertebrae chaplet
Chapter 13B (1): BENEFICIAL AMULETS OF ALPINE ROSARIES AND CHAPLETS
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  • The Frais(en)kette
  • Origin and use of the Fraisenkette
  • Protecting and healing items
  • St. Wolfgang Axe
  • St. Ulrich's Cross
  • Dominican Chaplet with an Ulrich's Cross
  • Filigree St. Ulrich's Crosses
  • Influence of the Benedictine Convents
  • Maria Buch, Benediktbeuern, Tegernsee
  • The Donauworth Cross
  • The Scheyern Cross
  • The Plague Cross
  • Benedict-blessing and Zacharias-blessing
Chapter 14A (2): ROSARIES RELATED TO MARY'S SORROWS
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  • The Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Mary
  • The Order of the Servants of Mary/Servites
  • Indulgences granted by Popes Benedict XIII and Clemens XII
  • Short formula to earn the indulgences
  • Blessing of the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows
Chapter 14B (5): SPANISH ROSARIES OF THE SEVEN SORROWS
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  • Early Rosaries of Seven Sorrows in Spain
  • Spanish Rosary of Seven Sorrows with the traditional three pendant beads in the chain
  • More variants regarding the credo-cross and the three bead group
  • 18th century Spanish rosary with a medal of Saint Raymund and Blessed Mariana
  • 18th century Spanish rosary with a medal of Saint Peregrine
Chapter 14C (1): THE CROWN OF TEARS OF THE VIRGIN MARY

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  • The Crown of Tears
  • Sister Amalia of the Scourged Jesus
  • About the Crown of Blood Tears
Chapter 15 (4): SWABIAN/BAVARIAN FILIGREE ROSARIES
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  • The Holy Roman Empire
  • Swabian/Bavarian filigree rosaries
  • Rosary makers at Gmund
  • German silver
  • About the beads
  • About the cross
  • A Chaplet with a filigree marigold-centered Roman cross
  • Maria Hilf and St. John of Nepomuk
  • The Rosary of St. John of Nepomuk
  • About the credo-cross
  • About the charm
Chapter 16A (1): ROSARIES WITH COINS FROM THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AREA
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  • Swabian/Bavarian Rosaries with coins
  • Explanations for attaching coins
  • Table of information on attached coins
  • The Holy Roman Empire/King Louis XIV
  • The Angel coin
  • A Bavarian Souvenir Rosary with coins
  • A Swabian rosary with 19th century coins
  • A Rosary of the Braunschweig-Luneburg Dutchy - Agnus Dei
  • Ernst August Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg
  • Neidfeige - Sebastianspfeile - Saltzteig/ Tonfigurchen
Chapter 16B (2): ROSARIES WITH A COIN IN THE PENDANT, SWISS ROSARIES

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  • A Swabian/Bavarian rosary with a Peruvian coin
  • Swiss Dominican Chaplets
  • A Swiss Chaplet devoted to Mary and Jesus
  • The Rosary of Beromunster
  • Saint Michael's coin
  • Rosaries of Einsiedeln with rimmed medals
Chapter 17A (5): ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SWABIAN/BAVARIAN ROSARIES
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  • Postcard of a women in traditional costume of Klein-Walsertal with a filigree rosary
  • Filigree medals
  • The Black Madonna of Altotting
  • The Walburgis Basket
  • 'S' and 'V' on the filigree cross
  • A Swabian/bavarian filigree rosary with a St. Ulrich's cross
  • The Miraculous Host of Augsburg
  • A Swabian/Bavarian filigree rosary devoted to the Holy Mountain Andechs
  • Coins, Tuntenhausen medal, pomanders, Three Hosts medal, bunch of grapes
Chapter 17B (2): NEW WAVES OF SWABIAN/BAVARIAN ROSARIES

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  • New waves of Swabian/Bavarian rosaries
  • The one-decade chaplets
  • Rosaries with a triply attached crucifix
  • The Caravaca Cross and the Lorraine Cross
  • A French Chaplet with the Lorraine Cross
  • A South-German Dominican Chaplet with a silver Art Nouveau cross from 1886-1887
Chapter 17C (3): AMULETS ATTACHED TO SOUTH GERMAN/ALPINE ROSARIES

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  • The Eye of Providence
  • Freemasonry, Illuminati, Christian symbol
  • St Anastasius medal to ward off evil spirits
  • The 'frightening-stone' (Schreckstein)
  • The 'Wehencross' for a smooth delivery
  • The 'rattle stone' (Klapperstein/Adlerstein)
  • A Corona Domini with a stone amulet
  • The 'hole-stone' (Lochstein) to heal the eye diseases.
Chapter 17D (3): ADDITIONAL ROSARIES FROM THE ALPINE AND BAVARIAN REGION

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  • Rosary with mother-of-pearl inlayed beads
  • Rosary with a memento-mori skull
  • Rosary with the largest filigree cross
  • Rosary of the Holy Blood of Weingarten
  • Willem I King of the Netherlands
  • Rosary with an enamel image of the Weingarten relic
  • Rosaries with a heart-shaped medal
  • The 'Segenkreuz'
  • The scourged Jesus of Wies
  • St. Michael Archconfraternity at Fultenbach
  • Rosary with multiple attachements
  • Rosary with a round medal of St. Augustine
  • Rosary with the largest round concluding filigree medal and multiple attachments
Chapter 18 (3): THE PARISH PRIEST OF ARS AND ST. PHILOMENA
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  • Chaplet commemorating  Pope Pius VII at the crowning of Emperor Napoleon in 1804
  • 19th century empowerment of Catholic devotion
  • Saint John Vianney, the parish priest of Ars
  • The Rosary Bell
  • Chaplets devoted to St. John Vianney
  • Sister Maria Luisa di Gesu
  • Linear Crown of Saint Philomena
  • Circular Crown of Saint Philomena
  • The Sorrowful Saint Philomena Rosary
Chapter 19 (4): ROSARIES AND CHAPLETS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
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  • Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
  • Saint Catherina Laboure
  • Congregation of the Daughters of Charity
  • The Miraculous Medal
  • Regular Chaplets with medals or entre-deux of the Immaculate Conception
  • Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception
  • A Spanish Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception
  • Chaplets devoted to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
  • Double size Chaplets of the Imm. Conc.
  • Chaplet of Apparitions to St. Catherina Laboure
Chapter 20 (2): ROSARIES AND CHAPLETS OF THE SACRED HEART
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  • St. Margaretha-Maria Alacoque and 12 promises
  • Beads of the Sacred Heart by Father Croiset
  • Chaplet of the Sacred Heart (3x10 beads)
  • Variants of the Sacred Heart Prayer Beads
  • Rosary of the Sacred Heart (5x6 beads)
  • Little Rosary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Beads of the Sacred Heart
  • Chaplet of the Sacred Heart
  • Confraternities of the Sacred Heart
  • Attention for the Heart of Mary
  • Little Crown of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
  • Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary
Chapter 21 (2): CHAPLETS OF OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
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  • Chaplet of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (O.L.S.H.J.)
  • Jean-Jules Chevalier in Issoudun
  • Ursilines of Sittard and Hope of the Hopeless
  • Confraternity Chaplet of O.L.S.H.J.
  • Polish chaplet with an unsusual composition
  • Jesuit-type Chaplet devoted to O.L.S.H.J.
  • Prayers for O.L.S.H.J. at the regular Chaplet
  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Le Mas-Rillier
  • Penin family of medal makers in Lyon
  • Souvenir rosaries of O.L.S.H.J. in Le Mas-Rillier
Chapter 22 (2): (CORD I) FRANCISCAN TERTIARIES AND ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
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  • Franciscan Crown of the Twelve Our Fathers
  • The Cross Prayers
  • Unknown Chaplet with peculiar composition
  • Chaplets of St. Anthony with 13x3 beads
  • The Responsorium
  • Chaplets of St. Anthony with 13x2 beads
  • Chaplets of St. Anthony with 13x1 beads
  • Chaplet of St. Lawrence Seminary / The Poor Boy's Seminary
  • Chaplet of St. Anthony with 7x5 beads
  • Regular Chaplet in honour of St. Anthony
Chapter 23 (1): (CORD II) ST. AUGUSTINE AND OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION
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  • Chaplet of St. Augustine or of Our Lady of Consolation
  • Open form of the Chaplet
  • Closed form of the Chaplet
  • Rosary/Little Beads of O.L. of Consolation
  • Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
  • Chaplet of O.L. of Consolation, Carey Ohio
  • Chaplet of the Loreto Child of Salzburg and of Maria Plain
  • Souvenir rosaries of Maria Kevelaer
Chapter 24 (1): (CORD III) ST. JOSEPH AND ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
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  • The Cord of St. Joseph
  • Seven Sorrows and Joys of St. Joseph
  • Association for the Continuous Worshiping
  • Regular Chaplet prayers for St. Joseph
  • Three-decade Chaplet of St. Jospeh
  • Crown of St. Joseph with 15 (3+1) beads
  • A prayer made of fifteen Lily Flowers
  • Souvenir Rosaries of St. Joseph
  • The Oratory of St. Joseph / Father Andre
  • The papal cross
  • The Cord of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • The Angelic Battle
Chapter 25A (1): THE ROSARY IN RELATION TO THE LIFE CYCLE AND THE SACRAMENTS

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  • The Rosary of Kinderdijk
in progress
Chapter 25B (1): THE ROSARY IN RELATION TO AGONY AND DEATH

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  • Rosary and Memento Mori as signs of mortality
  • A Bavarian Vanitas Rosary
  • The Bona Mors Confraternity
  • The Spanish rosary of the Good Death
  • Procession of the Congregation of the Good Death in Barcelona
  • German chaplet for persons in agony
  • The 'Sterbekreuz'
  • Rosaries with the Oberammergauer Sterbekreuz
  • Chaplet of Our Lady of Supreme Pardon
Chapter 26A (2): CHAPLETS RELATED TO THE SOULS IN PURGATORY (I)
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  • German Chaplets for persons in agony
  • The Bona Mors Confraternity
  • Monastery of St. Augustin in Barcelona
  • Rosary and Our Lady of the Good Death
  • Father Serres and Bishop Plantier
  • Confraternity of Our Lady of Suffrage in Nimes
  • Chaplets for the Dead in France
  • Chaplets for the Dead in Belgium
  • Montligeon and Oeuvre Expiatoire
  • Souvenir Chaplets of Our Lady of Montligeon
  • Possible link Leuze-Montligeon
Chapter 26B (1): CHAPLETS RELATED TO THE SOULS IN PURGATORY (II)
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  • Chaplets for the Dead in the German area
  • Archconfraternity of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for the Poor Souls in Purgatory, Lambach
  • Chaplets for the Dead in America
  • Rosary for the Poorest Souls of Priests in P.
  • Other prayers for the Dead
  • Little Chaplet for the Departed
  • The Angelic Crown in honour of St. Michael
  • Archconfr. for the Relief of Poor Souls in Purgatory, Monterone
  • Souvenir Angelic Crown of Mont S. Michelle
Chapter 27 (3): CORONA DOMINI AND CHAPLETS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
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  • Corona Domini, the Crown of Our Lord
  • St. Romualdus and the Camaldolese Order
  • Blessed Michael Pini of Florence
  • Rosary of the Passion of Our Lord
  • Methods for reciting the Crown
  • Blessing of the Crown of Our Lord
  • Blessing of the Crown 'pro agonizantibus'
  • Indulgences to be earned from the Crown
  • Chaplets of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Blessed Sacrament Beads
  • Crown of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Dominican Chaplets devoted to the Bl. Sac.
  • Rosary of the Seven Sacraments
Chapter 28 (1): CHAPLET OF THE WAY OF THE CROSS AND OF THE REDEMPTION
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  • Via Dolorosa - the Way of the Cross
  • Fourteen Stations of the Way of the Cross
  • Souvenir Chaplet of the Abbey of Beuron
  • Chaplet of the Way of the Cross
  • Origin of the Way of the Cross Chaplet
  • Louise Borgiotti / Lazarists
  • About the pendant / the cross prayer
  • Leonard de Port-Maurice
  • Fifteenth and sixteenth Station
  • Possible rivalry of religious Orders
  • Newer forms of the Chaplet of the Way of the Cross
  • The Chaplet of the Redemption
Chapter 29 (2): CHAPLETS OF THE FIVE HOLY WOUNDS OF JESUS
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  • Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus
  • Confraternity of the Blessed Death
  • Way to pray the Chaplet of the Five H. W.
  • Chaplet of the Five Holy Wounds of Bruges
  • Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Wyck-Maastricht
  • Confraternity of the Holy Cross
  • Cross of the Shrine of Aachen
  • Chaplet of the Five Wounds of the Association des Coeurs Devoues (pour la plus grande gloire de Dieu, dans les Plaies de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ).
  • Abbot Adrien Colomb de Gast
Chapter 30 (2): ROSARIES WITH A FOCUS ON THE SUFFERING OF JESUS
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  • Marie-Marthe Chambon and the Rosary of the Five Holy Wounds
  • Dominican Chaplets with split decades
  • Prayer to the Wound of the Shoulder
  • Chaplet of the Passionists
  • St. Paul of the Cross and the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ
  • St. Karel Houben
  • Crown of St. Rita of Cascia / Blessed Roses
  • Hugolin Dach and the Rita Sisters
Chapter 31 (3): CHAPLETS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS
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  • Chaplet of the Precious Blood
  • Way to say the Chaplet of the Holy Blood
  • Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood
  • Blessing of the Crowns of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood
  • Gaspar de Bufalo and Francesco Albertini
  • Union of the Blood of Christ
  • Chaplet of the Precious Blood of Bruges
  • The Precious Blood Rosary for Souls
  • The Bleeding Heart Chaplet
  • Eucharistic Miracles of Boxmeer, Boxtel
  • A Chaplet of the Holy Blood of Boxmeer
  • Chaplet of the Sacred Hosts of Brussels
  • Crown of the Divine Will
  • Louisa Piccarreta, St. Hanibal di Francia
  • Holy Octave of Consecration to God Our Father - Barbara Rose Centilli
Chapter 32 (2): CHAPLETS OF THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS
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  • Chaplet of the Holy Face of Jesus
  • Sister Marie of St. Peter (Marie de Saint Pierre et de la Sainte Famille)
  • Oratoire de la Sainte Face
  • Archconfraternity of Reparation (Archiconfrerie Reparatrice)
  • Our Lady of La Salette
  • Revelations concerning the H. Face Chaplet
  • Sister Maria Pierina de Micheli
  • Symbolism and way to pray
  • Holy Face Chaplet with three decades
  • Holy Face Association Montreal
  • Crown of the Holy Face
  • Dominican Chaplet devoted to the H. Face
  • Adoration Reparatice
  • Cross by Penin
Chapter 33 (2): ROSARIES AND CHAPLETS OF ST. THERESE OF THE INFANT JESUS
Click above on 'Chapter 33' for the details of:
  • Chaplets of St. Therese of Lisieux
  • National Shrine of the Little Flower
  • Chaplet of Our Lady of the Smile, Illinois
  • Chaplet of St. Therese of the Holy Face
  • Reverend Albert H. Dolan
  • The Chaplet of St. Therese
  • Way to pray the Chaplet of St. Therese
  • A variant of the Chaplet of St. Therese
  • Chaplet of the Pious Union of St. Therese, Texas
  • Souvenir Chaplet of the Little Flower Shrine in Royal Oak, Michigan
  • Chaplet of the Life of St. Therese
  • St. Therese and the Dominican Chaplet
  • Examples of Devotion to St. Therese
Chapter 34 (1): PENANCE CORDS
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  • Penance Cords
  • St. Therese of the Infant Jesus
  • Penance cord with 15 (10+5) beads
  • Penance cord with 14 (9+5) beads
  • Saint Benedict Joseph Labre
  • Penance cord with 17 (16+1) beads
  • Prayer cord of the Trappists with 10 beads
  • Penance cord with 25 beads
  • Saint Andre Hubert Fournet
  • Penance cord of Our Lady of Montserrat
Chapter 35 (1): ROSARIES OF THE NEW WORLD AND OF SAINT ANN
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  • Rivalry at the New World colonization
  • Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk
  • Chaplet of St. Kateri Tekakwitha
  • Notre-Dame-du-Cap and the Rosary Bridge
  • Souvenir Chaplets of Notre-Dame-du-Cap
  • Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre
  • Blessed Frederic Janssoone van Ghyvelde
  • Chaplets (3x5) of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre
  • A Chaplet (3x10) of St.-Anne-de-Beaupre
  • Souvenir Chaplets of St.-Anne-de-Beaupre
  • Chaplet of Bonne Anne of New York
  • Other 3x5 chaplets of St. Ann
  • Habit Rosary of St. Ann patron of teachers
  • Chaplets in honour of St. Anne d'Aurey
  • Yves Nicolazic
Chapter 36A (1): INDUS REV: WOVEN METAL CENTERS /STANHOPE ROSARIES
Click above on 'Chapter 36A' for the details of:
  • Rosaries with a woven metal centerpiece
  • Henri and Georges Stammler
  • Huayruro beads, rosary pees, crab eyes
  • San Esteban and Virgen del Tura (the Bull)
  • Woven metal centerpieces in other than Dominican Chaplets
  • Spanish Franciscan Habit Rosary
  • Stanhope rosaries / Charles Earl Stanhope
  • Galalith
  • Stanhope rosaries: Altotting, Laghet, Trier, Kevelaer, Lourdes (Burlington), Steinbach, Walldurn, Beausset-Vieux, Scherpenheuvel/Montaigu, Guadalupe
  • Alternative locations of the Stanhope lens
  • Single decade Stanhope chaplet
  • Spanish Stanhope rosary
  • A rosary with seven Sorrows Stanhopes
Chapter 36B (5): INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: VASELINE GLASS
Click above on 'Chapter 36B' for the details of:
  • Rosaries with green radiant glass beads
  • Vaseline glass - ouraline - Uranglas
  • Bohemian Riedel dynasty: Anna Riedel
  • Antoine Becquerel - Marie Curie
  • Uranium-glass - blacklight
  • Warning: vaseline glass is radioactive
  • Various types of radiant glass rosaries
  • Commissariat of the Holy Land, Washington
  • Other types of radiant glass beads
  • Rosaries with Amber glass beads
Chapter 36C (1): ART AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: IVORY ROSARIES

Click above on 'Chapter 36C' for the details of:

  • Dieppe Ivory rosaries with Baby Jesus or the regular crucifix
  • Ivory, ivorine, corozo/vegetable ivory
  • Corozo Rosary Cases
  • Corozo Chaplet in Dieppe tradition
  • 20th century Chaplets with ivory beads
  • Habit Rosary of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
Chapter 37 (5): ROSARY MAKERS AND ROSARY PRODUCTION
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  • Production of rosary beads since 1400
  • the Nurnberger Hausbucher
  • Brothers Leopold, Hans, Stephan
  • Fiedlebohr, violin-drill
  • Weigl: der Paterleinmacher
  • Amber trade since the 13th century
  • Diderot and le Rond d'Alembert
  • Encyclopedie des metier
  • Rosary production in France (Ambert)
  • Materials used to make rosary beads
  • Example of a chaplet of jeriki/huayruro beads
  • Dutch and Belgian Rosary Factories
Chapter 38A (2): ROSARIES IN CHINA
Click on 'Chapter 38A' for the details of:
  • The Rosary in China
  • St. Francis Xavier, Matteo Rici
  • The Boxer Rebellion
  • Franciscan Nuns as Martyrs of the Boxers
  • The miracle of Tsau-Tja-Ling
  • Introduction of the Communism
  • Mao Zedong, the Red Book
  • A short story of an Eucharistic Martyr
  • Father Manuel Gil de Sagredo
  • A Dominican Chaplet of Father Sagredo
  • The Rosary in modern China
Chapter 38B (2): THE HOLY CHILDHOOD SOCIETY AND CHINESE ROSARIES

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  • Pontifical Missionary Unit
  • Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
  • Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle
  • Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood
  • Pauline Jaricot/Charles de Forbin-Janson
  • H. Kindheit/H. Kindsheid
  • Registration cards of the Holy Childhood
  • Sacramentals of the Holy Childhood
  • German rosary related to the Holy Childhood
  • Congregational actions allied to the Pontifical Societies
  • German Dominican Missionary Work of the Holy Rosary; Mary as Protectress of China
Chapter 39A (2): ROSARIES RELATED TO SICKNESS
Click on 'Chapter 39A' for the details of:
  • Chaplets of St. Hubert and St.Hubert's key
  • Chaplets of St. Hubert against rabies
  • St. Genevieve protecting against ergotism
  • Witchcraft or fungus (the Salem records)
  • Chaplet devoted to St. Genevieve
  • Chaplet of the Hospitalite Diocesaine B.-L.
  • Chaplet of the Cadets Normands
  • Societe supplementaire des Veilleuses
  • Dominican Chaplet of the Veilleuses
Chapter 39B (5): ROSARIES RELATED TO POVERTY
CLick on 'Chapter 39B' for the details of:
  • Chaplet of the Order of the Foresters
  • Chaplets of the Knights of Columbus
  • Chaplet of the Fourth Degree K and C
  • Finger rosary of the Canadian Chevaliers de Colomb
  • Chaplets of the French Secours Catholique
  • Jean Rodhain, Aumonerie des Prisionniers de guerre, medal on Art Nouveau Chaplet
  • Chaplet of the Confrerie de la Charite
  • Confrerie de St. Pourcain (Portianus)
  • Roraries of the less fortunate
  • The 'poor people's rosaries'
  • The Wilgefortis rosary
  • Wilgefortis rosaries with decorated Our Father beads
Chapter 40A (1): ROSARIES BRINGING PEOPLE CLOSER TO THE CHURCH

Click on 'Chapter 40A' for details of:

  • The People's Missions
  • Redemptorist Bernard Hafkenscheid
  • The Mission-Cross
  • Indulgences for praying near a Mission-cross
  • German and French Dominican Chaplets as Mission souvenir rosaries (14 examples)
  • Maria Zell
  • A Spanish Jugendstil Mission souvenir Chaplet
  • Rosary of the Spanish Holy General Mission of Nervion
  • Our Lady of Begona in Bilbao
Chapter 40B (1): ROSARIES BRINGING PEOPLE CLOSER TO THE CHURCH

Click  on 'Chapter 40B' for details of:

  • One decade rosaries as Mission souvenir
  • Six decade rosaries as Mission souvenir: Corona / Brigittine rosary / Maria Zell
  • Ten decade Mission souvenir rosary
  • Eighteen-bead Mission souvenir rosary
  • Rosary of Seven Sorrows as Mission souvenir
  • Alliance Catholique, Joseph Lemann
  • Gospel and tele-evangelization
  • Reverend James Ewing
  • Chaplet with a 'Church of Compassion' cross
  • The FIAT-Rosary
  • Cardinal Suenens, Victoria O'Brien
  • Association FIAT
  • Way to pray the FIAT-Rosary
Chapter 41A (3): FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR ROSARIES (part I)

Click on 'Chapter 41A' for details of:

  • Rosaries of WWI: Centrals against Allies
  • German Rosary with a medal of Our Lady of Victory, Mutter vom grossen Siege
  • Rosaries on the side of the Centrals
  • Kriegs Rosenkrantz, War Rosary
  • German Chaplets with an war-marked Iron Cross centerpiece, black - white - red flag
  • German lily-of-death rosaries
  • German Chaplets with a war-marked cross
  • Sieg - Friede, Victory is Peace
  • Rosaries on the side of the Allies
  • French patriotic Chaplets
  • French Threefold patriotic Rosaries
  • Dieu et Patrie, God and the Fatherland
  • Belgian patriotic Chaplets
Chapter 41B (4): FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR ROSARIES (part II)
Click on 'Chapter 41B' for details of:
  • Patrona Bavariae Patriotic Chaplet
  • Chaplet for Prince Mircea of Rumania
  • Stanhope Rosarie of World War I: Nesle, and Notre Dame de Brebieres in Albert
  • The American Pullchain Rosary
  • US Army centerpieces
  • The Rosary of Altenberg
  • Ludwig Wolker; the Hitler Jugend
  • Way to pray the Altenberg Rosary
  • Soldier's Rosary; Finger Rosary; Basque Rosary
  • On the origin of the Finger Rosary
Chapter 42 (6): ROSARIES OF 20th CENTURY WAR MARTYRS/PRISONERS

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  • The 'Godspenning'
  • Bacon Father Werenfried van Straaten
  • Rosary for Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
  • Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • Chaplet devoted to St. Eugene de Mazenod
  • Rosary of Martyrs of the Spanish Oblates
  • Frentes y Hospitales
  • Rosaries of Blessed Titus Brandsma
  • Rosaries related to Titus before the war
  • The mother-of-pearl and silver rosary
  • Rosaries of Titus stay at Camp Amersfoort
  • The rosary depicted by Father Brocardus
  • The rosary made by Piet Hoefsloot
  • The 'Siegmund' and 'van der Brink' rosaries
  • The Rosary for the Liturgy of the Hours
  • The Titia rosary
  • Rosaries made of branches
  • The 36-decades rosary of Lemiers
Chapter 43A (3): RELIC ROSARIES: FRANCE AND GERMANY

Click on 'Chapter 43A' for details of:

  • Relic rosaries
  • Relics attached to the centerpiece or crucifix
  • Blessed water and soil
  • Relics from Saints
  • Relics embedded in the cross
  • French rosaries with a relic-cross
  • Rosary devoted to St. Bruno
  • Faith, Love and Hope in France
  • A French relic rosary with an ear of wheat
  • A French relic rosary with a piece of cardboard
  • A relic rosary of St. Anne de Beaupre
  • German rosaries with a relic-cross
  • Schiebekreuz
  • Seeds of the Honey Locust as beads
Chapter 43B (3): RELIC ROSARIES: ITALY

Click on 'Chapter 43B'for details of:

  • Italian Relic Rosaries
  • Relic Rosaries related to the catacombs
  • Soil from the catacombs of S. Callisto
  • Martyrs Peter and Marcellinus, soil from the Shrine of St. Helena
  • Trapist Fathers of Tre Fontane
  • Lignum m. olivarum - wood from Mount of Olives
  • Other relic rosaries with catacombs' soil
  • Relic rosaries from Therese Neumann
  • Relic rosaries of Santa Sabina
  • Lignum arboris S. P. Dominici - wood from the tree of St. Dominique at Santa Sabina
  • Relic rosary with dried oranges of the orange tree of St. Dominique at S. Sabina
  • Relic rosary with a dried orange in the pendant
  • Italian relic rosaris with relics of saints
  • Assisi relic rosary with soil from St. Francis' tomb
Chapter 44 (1): WALL ROSARIES

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  • Wall Rosaries: the Lourdes Rosary
  • Wall Rosaries from other places of pilgrimage
  • A Wall Rosary made of branches
  • A Portuguese Wall Rosary devoted to the Knights Templar
  • A large decorative rosary from Spain
  • Water Chestnut rosaries

Under consideration

Under consideration