Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

In this manner, the rosary was created and made known to us. And one may believe that the robbers bettered their lives as a result, because God's grace had permitted them to behold the Mother of Mercy ...

The Mother of God brings healing to a child — and touches the heart of a family. L to R: Eric and Andrea Paul and their son ...

In Egypt, decorative mother-of-pearl was used at least as far back as 4200 B.C., but the use of pearls themselves seems to have been later, perhaps related to the Persian conquest in the fifth ...

And this led our predecessor, Clement XL, in his gratitude, to decree that the Blessed Mother of God should every year be especially honoured in her Rosary by the whole Church. 5. Since ...

His anteroom is a mini-museum dominated by large, glass-encased religious figures whose heads and hands are made of ivory: There is an ivory Our Lady of the Rosary holding an ivory Jesus in one ...

A new podcast about the rosary promises to deepen listeners' love of the Marian devotion and draw them closer to Jesus and ...

Although he, himself, was Jewish, he had learned from several Roman Catholic friends the importance of rosary beads for counting prayers ... including those made with mother of pearl. This unusual ...

By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl. The oyster ...

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

Joan Ferns, Cuddagh South, Ballacolla and of Castletown died unexpectedly but peacefully at her home on Wednesday 6 November.

A Work of Substance has designed a bubble tea shop with a dark olive green facade called Mother Pearl. When sipping bubble tea, the spring-loaded pearls of tapioca instantly demands our attention.