The rosary, made up of 59 beads, a centerpiece medallion and a cross, is central to the Catholic faith. Each bead counts as a prayer and all together, the rosary represents the stories, also ...

Soubirous died of tuberculosis at age 35 while praying the rosary and, like many Catholics, was buried with a rosary entwined in her hands. Asked one day about the apparitions, she is said by ...

"Usually when we hold a rosary, we go through it with our hands. This is a chance for people to be on a kind of pilgrimage." The rosary was built with large rocks taken from the construction of ...

Inside Annunciation Catholic Church, there are vaulted ceilings and gothic arches, frescoes depicting the Angel Gabriel’s apparition to the Virgin Mary and majestic stained glass windows ...