“Up to the week before she died, she was still making rosaries for Uganda,” Father Rob Jack said of his great-aunt, Betty McGuire, who died two years ago at the age of 94 in Middletown, Ohio. “That’s ...
In a community room at the Holy Family School in Orange, at least 20 women gather each Tuesday, spreading colorful beads and strings among themselves to make rosaries that are later shared throughout ...
(The Conversation) — It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much ...
Chris Fogle prays the rosary with other staff members at the chapel of Our Lady’s Rosary Makers in Louisville, Ky., May 6, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/Katie Rutter.) Listen LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — From a ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Two retired East Texas nurses are helping link others to a centuries-old Christian prayer tradition through their rosary-making ministry. Longtime friends Cindy Schorr and Jennie ...
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - Francis Kallas’ large farmer’s hands, though a bit shaky, nimbly thread purple beads onto a white chord. Ten finished rosaries lay on a white towel on a rolling bedside table.
DALLAS — The request came from a chaplain in Iraq - American soldiers were asking for rosaries. But the chaplain was Episcopalian, and none of the soldiers was Catholic. "We were surprised," said the ...