Rosary beads

 For many Christians, rosaries are an essential tool in keeping the Christian faith close to heart and mind. Christian believers see the rosary as the Gospel in beaded form and serve as both an aid in memory and for meditative prayer as well. The rosary has likewise been looked at as the life of Jesus as seen through Mary's eyes.

However, not only the Catholics use the rosary.  Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims have their own rosaries.  Rosaries are made up of beads knotted in a cord, typically used to keep track on the exact number of prayers recited.  The Catholic rosary consists of 50 beads, each divided into five decades (with 10 beads in each decade) representing the five mysteries.  

Important dates in the history of rosary beads
The first concept of the rosary beads were conceived by the Desert Fathers who used prayer rope in the 4th century to count the times the Jesus Prayer had been repeated.  In the year 1075, Lady Godiva, an Anglo-Saxon wife of a nobleman, used precious stones that she tied into a cord in order to exactly count her prayers.

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