Rosaries are seen Sept. 20 at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum near Stevenson, Washington, in Skamania County. The center’s collection of rosaries has been verified as the largest in the ...

PHILADELPHIA — In a collection of rosaries that numbers 860, the prayer beads that started it all look like supporting players amid the headliners. There are the shimmering (with garnet beads from ...

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

(The Conversation) — It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much ...

KUWAIT, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- A hobby of a Kuwaiti man to collect Misbaha (prayer beads), particularly those made of amber, had turned into a booming trade in Kuwait that has become a hub for it in the Gulf ...

This large and elaborately illuminated vellum document is an establishment charter known as a "patent of erection" for a chapter of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, one of the largest devotional ...