What is the rosary?
The rosary is a string of prayer beads Catholics use to pray a series of prayers, many of them devoted to Mary.
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Prayer facts and facts about prayers.
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Was Schubert's "Ave Maria" originally a prayer?
Franz Schubert's famous "Ave Maria" was originally a setting of a poem by Sir Walter Scott, not the Latin prayer it's now sung with.
What famous prayer did Saint Augustine write about chastity?
In "Confessions," Augustine wrote that as a young man he prayed to be made chaste, "but not yet."
What is the Archimedes Palimpsest?
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a medieval prayer book written over lost works by Archimedes, and it sold for $2 million in 1998.