Z131: Irish Penal Rosary ($10.99 CAD)
Irish Penal Rosary
$10.99 (CAD)
Irish Penal Rosary INFO:
- CODE: Z131
- LENGTH: 32cm (12.5in)
- BEADS: Czech shamrock imprint glass beads (10mm)
- NICKEL SILVER: wire-wrapped, secured with sturdy jump rings, specialty Penal Crucifix.
- PRAYER CARD: included
- handmade
More Details
Our Irish Penal Rosary has Czech glass beads with imprinted shamrocks. It has an Irish Penal Crucifix with Crucifixion symbols. We designed it from the original ones with a ring on one end of a strand of beads. The opening prayer is an excerpt from The Lorica of Saint Patrick.
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Penal Laws made it difficult for Catholics to practice their faith. Some of the faithful gathered in secret for Mass. They carried this type of rosary with a narrow Crucifix for concealing inside the sleeve or palm. They would place the ring over the thumb for the first decade and then over the next fingers for the following decades. It is still a popular devotion today.
*The Irish Penal Rosary is available to order with other types of beads.
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Packaging
Each chaplet comes with a sturdy prayer card. It explains which prayers to say on which beads.
Suggestion
It is a good idea to store your chaplets and prayer cards together. Since chaplets have unique bead groupings and prayers, the prayer card and chaplet need to stay together so that you can continue to use them.
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Chaplet Source: In 17th Century Ireland, Catholics used these rosaries to avoid religious persecution. They could easily hide them in a sleeve to pray in secret. The ring was to keep track of the decades on the fingers and thumb.