Let's see photos of your Rosary!

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The rosaries above I make myself when I have the time. The top left rosary I call **pocket one-decade rosaries **that I make with hardware 20 gauge wire and small 4mm colored glass beads. The top right pocket rosary I made with 20 gauge hardware wire and 7mm round wooden black beads. The bottom rosary is a tiny 5-decade rosary that I made with beading wire and the same type of small 4mm colored glass beads.

I tend to give these rosaries away to family and friends. If any of you are curious as to how I make these rosaries you can read my brief instructions on how I make them at my website mysite.verizon.net/vzew4v2y/catholic4life/id4.html

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While not a rosary exactly, this belonged to either my great-aunt (who passed away last October, or my great-uncle, who just passed away this morning) -

I also want to know what kind of ‘rosary’ this is? (I think it’s a St. Michael’s novena)

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It also looks like there’s a relic. Anyone know what it is, and what the attached metal is? (the one that says “RELIO”)
EDIT: It looks like it does say RELIC. I just don’t know what that relic IS…

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It either belonged to my great-aunt, or great-uncle. (It’s black, so I’m guessing my great-uncle. A lot of his stuff is 60s and 70’s style black - including a black rosary with large rectangular “beads” that are like huge blocks.)

Obviously, the bottom crucifix isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what was there.

Here’s another one that my mom gave me at the Easter Vigil this year (it’s an Our Lady of the Snows Rosary).

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I have another bluish-purple rosary that belonged to my great-aunt, and a greenish-white glow-in-the-dark rosary that was my great-grandmother’s. She had 3 of them at least - my mom has one (despite not being Catholic), and my aunt has one with little paintings on the Our Father beads.
 
After some Googling, I think it has something to do with St. Anthony of Padua (they had many medals and prayer cards on St. Anthony of Padua). I’m not sure what the relic is (probably associated with St. Anthony?). It does look a little like the St. Anthony Chaplet. (Seems that maybe the medal was supposed to attach to the bottom, and it has 4 beads missing, including 1 set of 3 beads).
 
Here’s my rosary. It’s my first rosary ever, unless I was given one as a baby when I was baptized.

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I bought it about a month ago, at the cathedral here in Seoul. I really wanted a blue one, but they only had green and pink in styles that I liked. I was disappointed by the selection. There were a lot of wooden rosaries, but they look too much like the Buddhist prayer beads that are so common here in Korea. I wanted something that looked very Catholic. The one I ended up choosing was only $5. I was planning to spend more, as well.
 
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This is the pic of the one I bought off ebay a couple months before I came into the Church, saves me the trouble of taking one myself. I loved the crucifix since I’m a fan of Franciscan spirituality.
 
I make (new) and buy (vintage) a lot of rosaries to sell online. Most of the ones I make are semi-precious stones like rose quartz, amethyst, etc…so faydav – that’s one of the most beautiful malachite rosaries I have ever seen!

When I lived in East Lansing for a short time, my parish that held an “International Rosary.” I have never seen so many different rosaries jam-packed into a chapel since parochial school. It was so beautiful…job’s tears, colorful, subdued, seeds, knots, elegant and kitschy, crystal, rope, hemp…all together. This thread reminds me of that.

Here’s a couple of mine:

This one is from my FHC, and I wish I could use it more. It kinks a lot and I don’t have the heart to re-string the beads. I suppose it’s more for decoration on my little shrine, but I have to be very gentle when I use it.



This one is my “bedtime” rosary, since during the day it hangs on the bedpost in our room. The crucifix and medal are pewter; the beads are lampwork beads with roses.



This is the one I carry with me and use most often. It is made of carnelian beads and didn’t sell online so I kept it for myself. I think I am going to switch out the crucifix and medal to something more “feminine.”



When I was on active duty, I used one made of click beads and green 550-cord. The only drawback is that it wasn’t easily folded. Because of the way it was strung, it would snake out of my pockets a lot. I still prefer the chain link ones to corded ones.
average_Joe said:
You may want to stop looking on ebay. They support planned parenthood.
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Oh, and incidentally, I want to address the “eBay Supports Planned Parenthood” myth. Here was the article that started it all: Co-founder of eBay Supports Planned ParenthoodA Former.** eBay itself **has nothing to do with PP. (Of course, if I buy from a seller who then, in turn, gives $ to PP, that is not my fault if I do not know about it. However, I will not buy from a seller who blatantly posts, “Five per cent goes to PP!” For the record, I have never seen PP mentioned in a listing, either). So, since eBay itself doesn’t sponsor PP, it may be up to the buyer to ASK the SELLER if they donate to PP. I can verify that this is rarely the case, as most professional sellers are eking out a living for themselves.

The misinformation came from Life Decisions International (LDI), who HAS NOT verified the accuracy of this claim, although it still lists eBay as a supporter of PP. In fact, LDI’s assertion was debunked in this thread: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=174112

Okay, I won’t let eBay hijack this thread any more than I’ve already let it.
 
I would really like to make my own rosary, but where would I find the crucifix and medals?
 
Jennifer_G said:
After some Googling, I think it has something to do with St. Anthony of Padua (they had many medals and prayer cards on St. Anthony of Padua). I’m not sure what the relic is (probably associated with St. Anthony?). It does look a little like the St. Anthony Chaplet. (Seems that maybe the medal was supposed to attach to the bottom, and it has 4 beads missing, including 1 set of 3 beads).
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Have you tried looking here?

yankeelady.com/yl-antiques/chapel/rosary-table-bycount.htm

This has become an invaluable resource for me over the years.
 
Miserissima, thank you for your kind words…a lot of prayers and love went into that rosary… I gave it to my Mother on her 90th b-day. My Mother is a non-practicing Catholic (since the end of WW 2). She looked shocked when I gave it to her, she sat it aside and her party continued. My sis is able to visit her every day and she was kind enough to let me know that Mom sleeps with her Rosary and twice she has found it tucked into her smock pocket. I guess the unspoken sometimes is louder than the spoken word…
 
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