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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis calls for rediscovering the Rosary's ability to evangelize the Church, in his letter commemorating 150 years ...

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