the collection of rosaries in the united

Hindu ascetics (s/he) are said to sometimes wear beads made from the teeth of dead bodies. The rosary is used by Hindus to count the repetition of names and entities. So also in Japan, on the holiday of the dead (hommatsuri or bonku), which is celebrated from July 13 to 15, there are 108 welcome fires (niukaebi).

Tihetan rosary.-It consists of 108 disks of yellow wood, with separating beads of the same material, only slightly larger and. Chinese Rosary.-Consists of 18 olive-shaped beads, probably made of some wax or resin composition, each engraved with the image of one of the 18 Lolians or Saints, with their special attributes. Chinese Rosary.-Consists of 18 beads made of peachstone, each cut in the form of a drum with a fish-shaped temple, called in Chinese mo-yii, in Japanese mokugio.

Chinese rosary.—Consists of 18 beads made from the fruit of the Trapa hicornis of China, which resembles a buffalo's head with two blunt horns. Moreover, the Japanese rosary varies in the number as well as the arrangement of the beads with the different sects. Perhaps used by the Monto or Ikkoshin. sect, which was founded at the beginning of the thirteenth century A. Japanese I'osary.-Consists of 80 beads made of the fruit of Elaeocarpus, dried and polished.

Japanese rosary. Consists of 16 beads of the same. material and workmanship as that of no.

THE MOHAMMEDAN ROSARY

All this could indicate the introduction of some calculating device at the time when the recitation of the above formulas became a practice, the date of which, however, cannot be determined with certainty. It also shows that the rosary met with some opposition at the time from the conservatives and therigorists of religious discipline. In fact, until the third century AD, the use of the subha, as an instrument of jirayer, was only in vogue among the lower classes and was looked down upon by theologians and upper classes.

The two ends of the string pass first through the hundred bead, then through a fusiform or spindle-shaped tube, and. histically through two smaller pearls ending in a green tassel. Between the ninth and tenth beads from one end of the string is inserted an oblong rectangular piece of chalcedony, probably to complete, Avith the two. On either side of the two dividing beads, which are vase-shaped and. inlaid with silver dots, are three coral beads, and at both ends of the string two coral beads and one amber bead.

The ends of the string run through two small horn beads and a coil-shaped tube, ending in a green tassel. The ends of the string run through a large bead made from a piece of shell.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ROSARY

Outside the Roman Catholic Church, rosaries are in use among the Copts of Egypt. They generally consist of 42 beads, or sometimes of 81, and are used to count the repetitions of the Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us!). This has been generally understood about the string of pearls, and the natural conclusion would be that the suggestion came to Western Europe through the Crusaders, who observed the Muhammadans using their snhha.

34;A beautiful story of a crown which is met with from the beginning of the thirteenth century, and with which the Kev. Dominic can only be considered the creator and spreader of the current form of the rosary and the method of devotion (150 aves and 15 pater noster). As for the arrangement of the chapel in 50 or 150 beads, divided into decades, the total number of 150 corresponds, as mentioned above, to the number of Psalms.

34; In his encyclical of September 2, 1883, Leo XIII. he attributes the suppression of the Albigensian heresy in the 12th and 13th centuries, the victory of the Christians over the Turks to the power of the devotion of the rosary. Sometimes the buttons were separated from each other by three small pearl dots, perhaps the symbol of the Trinity. A cross of the same material is framed with silver-plated nickel, with the image of Christ on one side and a.

The place of the paterbead is taken by oval metal plates in which the image of Mary and an invocation to her are engraved. In place of the cross is a copper medal with a diameter of 2.5 cm, with the image of the crowned Mary on the obverse, with the baby Jesus in her arms; on the back a largely erased Latin inscription. This rosary is used in honor of the seven sons of Mary, namely the prophecy of Simon (Luke, 35).

In place of the paternal beads are seven bronze plaques, each representing, on one side, Mary with seven swords piercing her heart; on the other hand, the incidents in the life of Christ listed above. Catholic Rosary.- The smallest Dominican rosary of five decades with small blue glass beads, while five pater beads are from the seeds of Abrus precatorius (called "crab's eyes" or "mixed beads"). Encased in an egg-shaped bone box. box fathers, 1 inch by three-quarters of an inch.

It was worn by the members of the Mi.sericordia Maternity Hospital (Arciconfraternita de Santa Maria della Misericordia) in Italy. Oval Bronze Medal, If and 1| inches in diameter, which takes the place of a cross, has on one side a bust of St.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 22