- Roman Catholic Church.
- A form of devotion
to the Virgin Mary, chiefly consisting of three sets of five decades
each of the Hail Mary, each decade preceded by the Lord's Prayer and
ending with a doxology. - One of these sets of decades.
- A string of beads of 5 or 15 decades on which these prayers are counted.
- A form of devotion
- Similar beads used by other religious groups
It is the beads, when the Catholic prayers.
It means the rose in religion.
A from of devotion to the virgin Mary.