Throughout centuries, the rosary has been promoted by several popes as part of the veneration of Mary.

The rosary is part of the Catholic veneration of Mary, which has been promoted by numerous popes.

This emphasis on the path through Mary to Christ ( which was also a basis for some of Louis de Montfort's writings ) has since been a key direction in Roman Catholic Mariology, with Mariology being viewed as inherent in Christology, and the rosary paving that path.

A rosary card is either one with a " handle " that moves like a slide rule to count the decade, or it has a whole rosary with bumps similar to Braille.

This rosary unlike a Hindu or Buddhist one, which has 108 beads, had just 100 beads.

Hebel rounded off his story with the words: " The family friend knows to praise and venerate that, although he has never prayed to a rosary, else he would not write to he Lutheran calendar.

There are similar items in other cultures ( e. g. the Catholic rosary, used for religious purposes ), but the Greek kombolói has no religious or ceremonial purpose.

For centuries, Dominicans have been instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic belief in the power of the rosary.

Many seeds have been used as beads in necklaces and rosaries including Job's tears, Chinaberry, rosary pea, and castor bean.

The order made some grandiose claims, however, contesting the " invention " of the rosary with the Dominicans, terming themselves the brothers of the Virgin, and asserting, on the basis of their traditional association with Elijah, that all the prophets of the Old Testament, as well as the Virgin and the Apostles, had been Carmelites.

This view had been endorsed by Leo XIII who viewed the rosary as a vital means to participate in the life of Mary and to find the way to Christ.

References to the rosary have been part of a number of reported Marian Apparitions spanning two centuries.

Several Roman Catholic Marian churches around the world have also been named after the rosary, e. g. Our Lady of the Rosary Basilica, in Rosario Argentina, the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes and Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Shortly after he discovered that his wife had been sent a rosary from the pope, James exiled all Jesuits and other Catholic priests, and reimposed the collection of fines for recusancy.

At this religious mass, a rosary, or sometimes a necklace with a locket or pendant depicting the image of Mexico's patron saint the Virgin of Guadalupe, is awarded to the teenager by her godparents, such necklace having been previously blessed by the church clergy.

Whereas other rosaries required blessed beads to be used in order for any associated indulgences to be received it was unnecessary for a Franciscan rosary to have been blessed or even to use beads at all in specific instances.

The seeds of the rosary pea have been used to make beaded jewelry, which can lead to abrin poisoning if the seeds are chewed and swallowed.

* In the 19th century, the month of October was dedicated to the devotion of the rosary in Roman Catholic countries.

In 1942, after an audience with Pope Pius XII, newspapers quoted Mascagni, a Roman Catholic, as saying that his tuberculosis-stricken niece was cured after receiving a rosary and silver medal blessed by the pope.

The rosary ( from Latin rosarium, meaning " rose garden " or " garland of roses ") is a Roman Catholic sacramental and Marian devotion to prayer and the commemoration of Jesus Christ and events of his life.

The rosary also represents the Roman Catholic emphasis on " participation in the life of Mary, whose focus was Christ ," and the Mariological theme " to Christ through Mary ," taught by Saint Louis de Montfort.

In the 16th century, Pope Pius V introduced the rosary into the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar as the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on October 7.

The theologian Romano Guardini thus defined the Roman Catholic emphasis on the rosary as " participation in the life of Mary, whose focus was Christ.

" His statement echoed the view that in Roman Catholic Mariology the path to Christ is through Mary, with Mariology being inherent in Christology ; a sentiment also expressed by saints such as Louis de Montfort who was a strong rosary advocate.

Some forms of the Roman Catholic rosary are aimed at reparation including the sins of others.

One of the forces that drove the spread of the rosary during the 19th century among Roman Catholics was the influence of the Rosary Pope, a title given to Pope Leo XIII ( 1878 – 1903 ) because he issued a record twelve encyclicals and five Apostolic Letters on the rosary, instituted the Catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October and, in 1883, added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto.

He influenced Roman Catholic Mariology and promoted both the rosary and the scapular.

Specific Roman Catholic practices such as the Rosary of the Holy Wounds ( which does not include the usual rosary mysteries ) focus on specific redemptive aspects of Christ's suffering in Calvary.

Unlike the traditional rosary used by Roman Catholics, which focuses on the seminal events in the life of Christ and asks the Virgin Mary to pray for their intentions, Anglican prayer beads are most often used as a tactile aid to prayer and as a counting device.

Prayer beads are used by members of various religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Anglicanism, Islam, Sikhism and Bahá ' í Faith to count the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions, such as the rosary of Virgin Mary in Christianity and dhikr ( remembrance of God ) in Islam.

Hand-carved Roman Catholic rosary beads.

The type of rosary and number of beads may vary between religious communities, depending on a particular Catholic devotion.

Pope Pius XII and his successors actively promoted the veneration of the Virgin in Lourdes and Fatima, which is credited with a new resurgence of the rosary within the Catholic Church.

Devotion to the rosary is one of the most notable features of popular Catholic spirituality.

In 1569, the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices by the Dominican Pope Pius V officially established the devotion to the rosary in the Catholic Church.

The structure of the Catholic rosary devotion is as follows:

These rosary rings were given to some Catholic nuns at the time of their solemn profession.

One Catholic catechism instructs the faithful to wear the rosary as " it will help them to love Jesus more " and serve as a " protection from Satan.

The rosary is sometimes used by other Christians, especially in Lutheranism, the Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Church.

Other figures discerned from a study of the broken images are: Vishnu riding Garuda on a plantain leaf ; the Sun-god Surya riding a fully saddled horse ( head missing ); a saint with a rosary ; two female figures in the sky draped up to their thighs ; a faceless figure of the moon with a water container ; three identical figures of a male flanked by two females ; the skeleton of a sage ; Brahma ( without one arm ) riding a swan ; and Indra without his mount ( elephant missing ).

The prayer figures prominently in non-liturgical devotions, notably the rosary, where " Glory be " is recited before the large beads ( on which an " Our Father " is prayed ) which separate the five sets of ten smaller beads, called decades, upon each of which a Hail Mary is prayed.