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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 6988156, member: 2844&quot;]May this lapsed Catholic introduce a third?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It looks like a decade rosary to me, a single round of ten beads to pray a &#039;decade&#039; of ten prayers. The heart suggests a Sacred Heart connection, or a Mary connection.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a pretty generic style, very sweet, but no real age. The beads and filigree aren&#039;t handmade. I would have it tested to see if they really are sterling.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Hampton pointed out, chapelet is French for rosary. It has two meanings though.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>I studied theology, which doesn&#039;t concern itself with popular (folk) Roman Catholicism, so I am by no means a specialist.</p><p>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!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":vamp:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) in favour of Scriptures- and theology-based Catholicism.</p><p>So the rosaries I have weren&#039;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.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p>I remember there was an outrage among Dutch Catholics when Madonna wore a rosary as a necklace.</p><p>I don&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Through the Léger side of the family I am related to &#039;your&#039; former cardinal Léger, and his brother, the former governor general.</p><p>A distant relative, but my mother would always point that out whenever we saw him on television.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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