Antique Italian
Posted in Garden Antiques on 04/13/2010 05:19 am by adminItalian rosary with too few beads?
I recently picked up a rosary at a second hand/antique store, but I didn't notice the unusual number of beads until I got home. Instead of five beads between the crucifix and the medallion, there are only four. All of the beads on the rosary are the same size and color, so it's not as if one particular bead out of those five is missing-- although if I had a guess from the links and chains, I'd say it's the middle Ave Maria. It doesn't seem damaged, so I'm guessing it came into the world this way.
Never seen something like this, and I'm disappointed to think that I picked up a seemingly defective (in the physical sense) rosary. The medallion and the crucifix are both stamped with "Italy," but nothing else about the piece seems special or expensive.
I'm not really sure what to make of this, especially since I wasn't raised in the faith. Does anyone have any legitimate reasons why this rosary is missing a bead, or did I just accidentally pick up a second-hand sacrilege?
I wonder if this might be a Saint Michael rosary. This is a special rosary used for the chaplet of the Archangel Michael. It has nine sets, each consisting of an Our Father and three Hail Marys. The four beads at the end of the chaplet are Our Fathers said for the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, with the last for the Guardian Angels.
You can see a picture of it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary_based_prayers#Chaplet_of_Saint_Michael
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