INDEX

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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 (3): 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
  • 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 3 (5): 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 Dominique
  • Clausulae method of praying the rosary
  • The Roman Rite of the pendant
  • Rosary of the most Holy Name of Jesus
  • The Rosary of St. Dominique
  • Chaplets of rose petals of the Carthusians
  • Cartuja Aula Dei and Cartuja de Miraflores
  • Chaplet of rose petals of the Carmelites
  • The legend of the Rosary of Rose Petals
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 (3): 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
  • Wall Rosaries
  • A Templar's rosary
  • 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 8 (2): REFORMATION AND WORLD EXPLORATION
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  • The reformation
  • The rosary of Mary Queen of Scots
  • Chaplet of the Holy Martyrs of Gorcum
  • Lutheran prayer beads
  • Angelican Crown
  • 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 Chaplet
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 (5): ROSARIES RELATED TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE FAR EAST
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  • An Indochinese Missionary Chaplet
  • Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris
  • 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 (1): 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 13 (5): ROSARIES IN TIMES TROUBLED BY SORCERES AND DEMONS
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  • Swabian/Bavarian rosary with St. Anastasius
  • Swabian/Bavarian rosary with a deon-frightening charm, a 'Schreckstein'
  • 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 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 (3): SPANISH ROSARIES FOR SORROWS AND ROSARIES FOR TEARS
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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
  • 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 16 (3): 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 Rosary of the Braunschweig-Luneburg Dutchy - Agnus Dei
  • Ernst August Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg
  • Neidfeige - Sebastianspfeile - Saltzteig/ Tonfigurchen
  • The Rosary of Beromunster
  • Rosaries of Einsiedeln with rimmed medals
Chapter 17A (4): 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
Chapter 17B (1): 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.
    • To be determined
    Chapter 17C (1): AMULETS ATTACHED TO SOUTH GERMAN/ALPINE ROSARIES

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    • 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 (3): 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 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
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    • 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
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    • 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 (4): INDUSTRIAL REV: VASELINE GLASS AND IVORY ROSARIES
    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
    • Dieppe Ivory carving including rosaries
    • Ivory, ivorine, corozo / vegetable ivory
    • Corozo Rosary Cases
    • Corozo Chaplet in Dieppe tradition
    • 20th century Chaplets with ivory beads
    Chapter 37 (2): ROSARY MAKERS AND ROSARY PRODUCTION
    Click above on 'Chapter 37' for the details of:
    • 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)
    • A rosary for in the grave
    • Materials used to make rosary beads
    • The Apostolic Crown
    • The Rosary of the Mission - Mgr. Sheen
    • 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 (1): THE HOLY CHILDHOOD SOCIETY AND CHINESE ROSARIES

    Click on 'Chapter 38B' for the details of:

    • 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
    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 (4): 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
    • 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 (3): 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 Rosary of World War I
    • 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 (4): ROSARIES OF 20th CENTURY WAR MARTYRS/PRISONERS

    Click on 'Chapter 42' for details of:

    • 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 (2): 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
    • Italian relic rosaris with relics of saints
    • Assisi relic rosary with soil from St. Francis' tomb

    under consideration

    To be determined