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J. P. Morgan donated the bead to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917. The Cloisters bead consists of two surviving capsules, each consisting of a series of minutely detailed carvings on both sides. Latin inscriptions, some in Gothic script, frame the work. The upper capsule has two wings, which when opened form a triptych. [3]
Roman Catholics came to pray the Dominican rosary with strings of 59 beads. The term rosary comes from the Latin rosarium "rose garden" and is an important and traditional devotion of the Catholic Church, combining prayer and meditation in sequences (called "decades") of the Lord's Prayer, 10 Hail Marys, and a Gloria Patri as well as a number ...
Prayer bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion, South Netherlandish. 1500–1510. Height (open): 11.2 cm (4.4 in). [1] The Cloisters, New York. Prayer bead with the Prayer of the Rosary and the Lamentation. Netherlandish, early 16th century. Height: 3 cm (1.2 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
It is a chaplet consisting of a ring of seven groups of seven beads separated by a small medal depicting one of the sorrows of Mary, or a single bead. A further series of three beads and a medal are also attached to the chain (before the first "sorrow") and these are dedicated to prayer in honour of Mary's Tears, as well as to indicate the ...
Thrillvania is an immersive haunted house theme park located in Terrell, Texas. [1] [2] The park consists of 50 acres, and is considered a major international horror theme park. [3] [4] [5] Created by Lance Pope in 1996, Thrillvania was one of the first haunted house parks to use film special effects such as animatronics and pyrotechnics. [6] [7]
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The Anglican Rosary hangs next to a home altar. Anglican prayer beads are most often used as a tactile aid to prayer and as a counting device. The standard Anglican set consists of the following pattern, starting with the cross, followed by the Invitatory Bead, and subsequently, the first Cruciform bead, moving to the right, through the first set of seven beads to the next Cruciform bead ...