Help identifying prayer beads

[MrsBunnygirl]

Hi, while cleaning out some old boxes I came across some prayer beads and wanted to know more about them. There are four groups of five beads on a chain loop attached to a heart centerpiece which has a crown of thorns on it and then a piece of chain with one bead and a saint medal for St. Rock.

Not quite sure what it is and where it came from. Thanks.

Edit: Oh I hope it is ok for me to post this here!

 

[Michie]

Hi, while cleaning out some old boxes I came across some prayer beads and wanted to know more about them. There are four groups of five beads on a chain loop attached to a heart centerpiece which has a crown of thorns on it and then a piece of chain with one bead and a saint medal for St. Rock.

Not quite sure what it is and where it came from. Thanks.

Edit: Oh I hope it is ok for me to post this here!

Welcome! You are allowed to ask questions & fellowship here. It sounds like you have a prayer chaplet. Maybe a St. Roch prayer chaplet. It is hard to tell without actually seeing it. Those chaplets if it is St. Roch are the harder ones to find.

 

[MrsBunnygirl]

Sorry it looks like my post count isn't high enough to post an image and I've tried to find one similar online but with no luck. If only I could remember where we got it from.

 

[Tallguy88]

You can post the picture to photobucket, then post it here by using (img)image url (/img). Just use [ ] instead of ( ).

 

[JimR-OCDS]

From my google search, I believe that those are Anglican Prayer Beads.


Anglican prayer beads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Jim

 

[MrsBunnygirl]

An Anglican "Rosary" has four groups of 7 beads in each group with a larger bead in between. This one has four groups of 5 beads but no larger beads at all in between.

 

[Davidnic]

The chaplet of the two hearts is close but not it. let me look around. But it might be some variation on it. So all in all are there 20 beads?

 

[Davidnic]

It might be Paternoster beads. They are sometimes divided into sets of 5. It is not common but it is one of the few things that does 4 sets of five. Although strings of 10-50 are more common without beaks, Paternoster beads are the only thing that springs to mind that uses 4 sets of five in a variation. And people can put any centerpiece and attach patron saint medals to them.

 

[Davidnic]

Paternoster beads were used in the English tradition and come from the middle ages. But my grandmother still used some and it is possible it was someone's private devotional. In that case it would be ordered in the way they chose. They are much rarer than a rosary or chaplet but not uncommon in some circles.

 

[MrsBunnygirl]

Well here are some "links" to pictures (as I cannot post them yet):

ht(t)p://tinypic(dot)com/r/2lco9hv/8
ht(t)p://tinypic(dot)com/r/v8ndj8/8

It has 20 beads and then one larger bead near the Saint medal, there is also a much smaller bead attached as well.

 

[Davidnic]

There are lots of chaplets, nothing in my one book of them looks like that. The Paternoster variation is closest. But I will keep looking as I have time if no one else finds it.

 

[Wigglesworth]

The centerpiece of your chaplet appears to be the Sacred Heart of Jesus, perhaps an uncommon devotion among Anglicans.

 

[Eretria90]

There is an Anglican chaplet of St. Roch apparently: Chaplets, Rosaries and Litanies: Chaplet of St. Roch

However, the mentioned chaplet appears to not use the same amount of beads that exist on your chaplet.

 

[Dylan Michael]

I'm stumped.

I've never seen one like that.

At first I thought of the Chaplet of the Five Wounds, but that has large beads between groups.

 

[MrsBunnygirl]

Found it:
ht(t)ps://www(dot)etsy(dot)com/listing/130552897/st-roch-rocco-rock-chaplet-italian

 

[Davidnic]

How interesting

ST. ROCH CHAPLET Rock Rocco medal relic card bachelors (02/09/2007)

 

[Michie]

Found it:
ht(t)ps://www(dot)etsy(dot)com/listing/130552897/st-roch-rocco-rock-chaplet-italian

I collect a lot of antique & vintage rosaries & chaplets. St. Roch is my husbands confirmation saint btw. Just because as a kid...he thought the name was cool.

 

[MrsBunnygirl]

The one thing I don't have is the prayer card that goes with it, I wonder if that will be harder to find (or at least the prayer that was on it).

 

[Michie]

The one thing I don't have is the prayer card that goes with it, I wonder if that will be harder to find (or at least the prayer that was on it).

I have a chaplet book. I might find something there. If I were you though...I'd just Google it.