Thus these texts alone cannot constitute the source for the narrative meditations linked to the Ave prayer that appeared in later rosaries. |
On the walls there were rosaries, medals, several pictures of the Virgin, and a holy-water stoup made out of a coconut. |
The celebrant faced the tabernacle, his back to the uncomprehending congregants who busied themselves with their prayer books or rosaries. |
He took me to the sanctum of the whole church, where the chapel was and I stared at the bright rosaries and the flowered stained windows. |
Emblematical of the season are gold and silver, prayer-book markers, and rosaries with beads of precious metals or garnets. |
There we offered prayers for a successful pilgrimage and got our rudraksha rosaries sanctified by the priest. |