Rosary
date: label: Date made
content: 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: The beads in this rosary are made from wood, and four large <i>milagros</i>, or "miracles" representing offerings to a particular saint, are attached to the rosary. Rosaries are strings of beads used by Catholics to repeat prayers such as the "Hail Mary" and the "Our Father". Sometimes they are offered as tokens of special thanks to particular saints. Rosaries in the Vidal Collection are made from a wide variety of materials such as silver, gold, horn, seed, wood, and coral.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Las cuentas de este rosario son de madera y llevan adheridos cuatro milagros de importante tamaño que representan ofrendas a determinados santos. Los rosarios son collares de cuentas que usan los católicos para repetir plegarias tales como el Ave María y el Padre Nuestro. A veces se ofrecen en señal de agradecimiento a ciertos santos. Los rosarios de la Colección Vidal se hallan confeccionados de una gran variedad de materiales, desde plata y oro, hasta cuerno, semillas, madera y coral.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Rosario
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
label: See more items in
content: Cultures & Communities
label: See more items in
content: Religion
label: See more items in
content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.1088.001
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.1088.001
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rosary
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 98.1 cm x 7.3 cm x 1.6 cm; 38 5/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 5/8 in