Featured Chaplet Rosary - Where/How Old

This tiny, blackened thing was squished in between two necklaces, but I thought it might be older. So, I brought it home. I couldn't find anything like it during several Goggle searches. I polished it up a bit. I thought this was a baby's bracelet, but Peggy @bercrystal informed me that it is a chaplet* rosary. I had no idea they existed.
*Hampton Auction believes the word is chapelet.

There is a tag that says 925 and some letters that are poorly stamped. The cross and the heart have twisted wires. The rosary beads are stamped and appear to be assembled by combining two halves - some bead halves have a line and some do not.

Does anyone have any ideas that they would like to share.

 

This is a Chaplet Rosary.

A regular rosary has 5 groups of 10 beads. This one only has 1 group of 10 beads. You just keep using the same beads 5 times.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ros...HaxQDnQQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

 

Amazing. I had no idea. Thank you.

 

I believe that it's Chapelet, which is the French word for Rosary.

 

Excellent. I'll change it. Thank you very much.

 

There are 3 types of rosaries, necklaces, bracelets, and finger rosaries. I would add to that list a belt habit Rosary, My mothers aunt was a Sister of Holy Cross, (Soeurs de Sainte-Croix) in Val D'or PQ, and she wore a belt habit Rosary, a large and long Rosary attached at the waist.

 

Very interesting. So this would go back to my original premise of a bracelet? But it is so tiny. No person who could do a rosary could wear it. I am so confused now. Or is this a finger rosary.

 

My opinion is that , because of its size, it is a bracelet Rosary for a Baby's Baptism.

 

I don't believe they were actually made to wear as a bracelet or as a necklace by most individuals. You could buy small pouches about the size of a coin purse to carry with you in your purse or pocket.

I think some folks are more private when they say the rosary & consequently do not want to be handling a full-size one. That is where the rings or Chaplets come into play. You can even do it using your fingers to count the 10 Hail Mary prayers that are said with each group of 10 beads.

 

Love it. Back to my original thought. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

 

Looks like two schools of thought here. I went to 12 years of Catholic school with Benedictine nuns and rosaries were ostentatiously draped over the nuns' habits. I never saw a small one as you described. I try hard to forget those days though.

 

I attended 4 years of school with the sisters of St. Vincent the Paul, and 6 years with the sisters of the Holy Cross, in Manchester NH.
As for the Baby Baptism Bracelet, there are many examples to be found in Google images.
As for a regular size bracelet, Catholics would weer them as you would a charm bracelet.

 

I also spent all 12 years in Catholic school. The nuns wore the traditional long habit with the full veil in my first 8 years which was divided up between 2 different schools since we moved just before I started the 4th grade.

High school was a different matter. The school was run by the Sisters of Mercy & the few that wore a habit wore ones that came just below the knee & a short veil that showed some of their hair. Most wore regular modest clothes which I always thought was weird since all of the students wore uniforms.

I never heard of Chaplets until I got involved with this nonsense & came across one that was included with some jewelry.

I still have my Mother's crystal bead with a sterling cross rosary in my purse where it has been since her funeral almost 31 years ago.

 

I spent a night in Val D'or......................... many moons ago..

 

My uncle was a teacher at the Indigenous people reserves of Val D'or. he invited my family to visit, I was maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time. What I remember is that it was almost midnight and it was still light outside. He brought us to the gold mines, but we were restricted on what we could see. The balance of my relatives live in La Tuque, Quebec. My father was born in Lac St. Jean.

 

old world Quebecers then......

 

My family name Maltais, I would say so.

 

May this lapsed Catholic introduce a third?
It looks like a decade rosary to me, a single round of ten beads to pray a 'decade' of ten prayers. The heart suggests a Sacred Heart connection, or a Mary connection.

It is a pretty generic style, very sweet, but no real age. The beads and filigree aren't handmade. I would have it tested to see if they really are sterling.

As Hampton pointed out, chapelet is French for rosary. It has two meanings though.
In Catholic rosary prayers, which are many, there is a specific group called chaplet prayers. In this case, chaplet is the name of a type of prayer. Some chaplet prayers can be said with a decade rosary, as can non-chaplet prayers.

I studied theology, which doesn't concern itself with popular (folk) Roman Catholicism, so I am by no means a specialist.
Besides, my own first communion was just after Vaticanum II (1962-65), when a lot of popular Catholicism was thrown out the window (work of the devil!) in favour of Scriptures- and theology-based Catholicism.
So the rosaries I have weren't mine, but came down through the family. The little I know about rosaries comes from my grandmother and her friends, who went on pilgrimage as often as they could.

Unlike Spanish Catholics and some others, Dutch Catholics would never wear a rosary. It was strictly for prayer, and kept in a special box if not used.
I remember there was an outrage among Dutch Catholics when Madonna wore a rosary as a necklace.
I don't know how your decade rosary was intended, but it is good to remember that to some Catholics it is a disgrace to wear it as a bracelet.

Through the Léger side of the family I am related to 'your' former cardinal Léger, and his brother, the former governor general.
A distant relative, but my mother would always point that out whenever we saw him on television.

 

It's good to know that you are another who was educated by nuns in their early years. I saw the baptism and christening bracelets on Google in the same style. That's why I originally posted it as a baby's bracelet. I remember getting gifts for every important religious moment like first communion, confirmation, so I can see a religious baptism gift.
Thank you for your thoughts.

 

And another one here.