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to have a hole in my knowledge regarding blue rosaries?

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 09:38

I have just been told the significance of these.

Actually, I think I'm getting to the stage where nothing really shocks me anymore.

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topsyturner · 06/05/2011 09:42

Ooooh , test my levels of jadedness and tell me the significance .
(dd making her first communion next week , you could poss save me from making some horrific faux pas !)

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Bucharest · 06/05/2011 09:43

Tell me too.
My friend bought me a blue one from Lourdes.....

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Andie20521 · 06/05/2011 10:05

Just googled it and found nothing????

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Seabright · 06/05/2011 10:14

Another hole of knowledge here. And if google doesn't know, it's obviously a fairly big hole.

Tell us!

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Groovee · 06/05/2011 10:17

I don't know either

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Katiepoes · 06/05/2011 10:17

Tell tell, I had one years ago before I turned into a godless heathen. It was blue and sparkly as I recall.

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justkeepingheadabovewater · 06/05/2011 10:18

Please share with the group!!!

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HeidiKat · 06/05/2011 10:21

Marking my place on this thread, I would like to know as well as I am a somewhat lasped Catholic but have never heard of different colour rosaries meaning stuff.

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HRHJoyceOfBarnaby · 06/05/2011 10:21

I didn't even know they came in different colours - what's the difference? How did you find out?

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HerHissyness · 06/05/2011 10:24

Are you sure they are not Anal bead Chaos?

What IS the significance then? c'mon, spill!

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Katiepoes · 06/05/2011 10:25

My keyboard is now under a layer of coffee at the idea that at age six I owned a set of blue sparkly anal beads. Given to me by a nun.

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NotCastingAClout · 06/05/2011 10:26

I always thought in Catholicism blue symbolised the Virgin Mary, might be wrong though.

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FruStefanLindman · 06/05/2011 10:27

OK, I've found a couple of things on t'internet.

One is not shocking - that it's supposed to remind you of Our Lady (Mary, mother of Jesus)

The other one could be deemed to be shocking - they are prison issue rosaries

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HerHissyness · 06/05/2011 10:31

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PaisleyLeaf · 06/05/2011 10:33

is it to do with these people?

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 10:37

Nope, keep guessing.

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HerHissyness · 06/05/2011 10:39

Against female clergy?

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PaisleyLeaf · 06/05/2011 10:43

The World Mission Rosary?

"Each decade of that World Mission Rosary calls to mind an area where the Church continues her evangelizing mission: green for the forests and grasslands of Africa; blue for the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacific; white symbolizing Europe, the seat of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world; red calling to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas and yellow, the morning light of the East, for ASIA."

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Punkatheart · 06/05/2011 10:45

A Catholic mystery - like it!

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justkeepingheadabovewater · 06/05/2011 10:49

marking place - should really be getting ready to go out with DS but too intrigued...

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JamieAgain · 06/05/2011 10:51

It's nothing to do with religion - it's teenagers marking off sexual exploits with beads

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Katiepoes · 06/05/2011 10:52

Is it something to do with the pro-lifers? Or poor babas buried in unconsecrated ground?
If it's worse than the Padre Pio stuff it must be bad indeed...

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Cattleprod · 06/05/2011 10:53

It's nothing to do with dragonbutter is it?

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GrimmaTheNome · 06/05/2011 10:56

YANBU.

It is completely reasonable to neither know nor care the supposed significance of a set of beads.

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FruStefanLindman · 06/05/2011 10:59

Something to do with 'ring' rosaries, which are smaller, round, rigid and with beads round the edge - could be used as an, ahem, sex toy?

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