Rosary beads are used to express Catholic identity and as an instrument of prayer, but they’ve been appropriated as a fashion statement. ... The large jewelry company Zales also sells a ...

If prayer beads, rosaries, mala, mantra, and more were once reserved for religious worship (and early, rebellious Madonna—who can forget the rosary beads riddling her neck in the video for ...

Traditional rosaries consist of five sets of beads, each set comprising one large bead representing the Lord's Prayer, and 10 smaller ones representing the Hail Mary.