Our Lady of Sorrows Loretto light lemon ivory pearl Traditional Rosary

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Overview: Beautiful vintage light lemon ivory pearl traditional Rosary.

Details: a beautifully made Catholic Rosary using 59 smooth large round vintage light lemon ivory coloured glass faux pearl beads.

Chains and links: gold

Centre-piece: Mater Dolorosa Our Lady of Sorrows in vintage gold with Sacred Heart of Jesus depicted on the back.

Crucifix: Vintage gold Lauretan / Loreto Cross. The beautifully decorated crucifix consists of an eight-pointed cross and a medallion with the image of the Lady of Loreto in the middle which is similar to the medal of the Order of the Knights of Loreto. A golden ribbon winds between the four arms of the cross. Members of the cathedral chapter of Loreto wore the cross suspended on a cord.

Rosary Length: 55cm

Rosary weight: 48g

Notes:

Our Lady of Sorrows, we call to mind the pain endured both by Christ on the Cross and Mary, as she watched her Son be crucified. We ask for the grace to join in that sorrow, so that we may awaken to what is truly important: Not the passing joys of this life, but the lasting joy of eternal life in Heaven.

Where is the Our Lady of Loreto house originally from?

Catholic tradition holds that the Holy House arrived suddenly in Loreto, Italy on December 10, 1294 after a miraculous rescue from the Holy Land as the Crusaders were driven out of Palestine at the end of the 13th century. The shrine of Our Lady of Loreto is located on the Adriatic coast of Italy, three hours from Rome. It is the third largest shrine to Mary in Europe, next to Lourdes and Fatima. The ministry of the shrine is the hospitality shown to pilgrims especially through the sacrament of penance.

The tradition of the shrine at Loreto goes back to the year 1291. As the last of the crusaders returned to Western Europe they brought with them a number of relics, objects of devotion and remembrances of holy shrines. It happened that the dwelling of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the house which both tradition and Christian devotion had maintained as the site of the appearance of the archangel Gabriel and therefore the Incarnation of our Savior, was moved from Nazareth to Christian Europe.