A ROSARY WITH A HISTORY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 21, 25 May 1899, Page 31

A ROSARY WITH A HISTORY.

In the possession of a community of English nuns' in Paris there is a rosary- with a name and a history. Its name is 'My Lord ' (Monseigneur). It is a large,-beaded.rosary, and upon it the English nuns in Paris have for two hundred and forty-five years been saying prayers for England. Each religeute has it a week in turn. While the bell is ringing for Sunday Vespers, at a given moment the one who has had it last goes and hangs it at the door of the one who is to have it nexfc. Thu6 is a system of perpetual prayer pursued for the mother country. This historic rosary, together with the pastoral ring of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, dating from the seventh century, was given to the community by the churchman, Richard Smith, who, himself an exile for his faith, acted as protector- of the English nuns in Paris in the seventeenth century, and- at death left them what he possessed.