In Rome in October 2002, while waiting with Catholics from around the world for a papal Mass to begin, Roy and Roberta Wilson believed they saw the Blessed Mother’s hand at work. As the couple passed ...

“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 ...

Outside St. Anne’s Catholic Church at 1813 S. Maryland Parkway, a group of women gathered to sell baked goods and crafts for a cause dear to their hearts, the rosary. Groups dedicated to crafting ...

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 St. James rosary makers have been meeting for at least 30 years Group members estimate they’ve made tens of thousands over the years Parishioners work on rosaries at home and then meet about once ...

SANTA BARBARA — Janet Fanucchi has made jewelry since her teenage years. But it wasn’t until three years ago that, at age 50, she made her first rosary -- Indian amber beads with a golden vintage ...

When Matt and Elizabeth Doucette were students at Franciscan University of Steubenville and first dating, she wanted to get him a rosary for a Christmas gift. Shopping for one, she couldn’t locate ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Long haunted by the urgency of Mary’s words at Fatima, Brother Sylvan Mattingly, C.F.X., of Louisville’s St. Xavier High School, decided in May 1949 to do something extra for Our ...

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 ...

Years ago, Holy Rosary Catholic Church members Murphy and Jeanette Gautreau began their own spiritual ministry by creating rosaries from Job’s tears seeds. Carrying on her parents’ tradition, Kathy ...