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 the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray in their home by reciting the Rosary: "We need to return to the ...

The Rosary became a symbol of hope and unity during the revolution, echoing Pope John Paul II’s belief in the power of Marian intercession and the Blessed Mother’s protective mantle over the ...

The month of October is dedicated to the rosary, a Catholic prayer that Christians believe bestows "spiritual roses" upon the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a priest told Fox ...

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 ...

The pope marked the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are 15 exceptional churches of Poland, dating from the Middle Ages through to contemporary times The Gniezno cathedral, the Mother of Polish Churches ... a building called the European Pearl of ...

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.