Chaplets (Prayer Beads)

Chaplets (Prayer Beads)
Chaplets (Prayer Beads)
Essay on chaplets, rosaries, prayer ropes, prayer cords. Brief treatment of the use of beads in prayer by non-Christians

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.


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