Whose Counting the days? Benny as an OBJECT--The Rosary

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 30 18:50:16 CST 2001


To a  Roman Catholic, the Rosary is 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. b. One of these
sets of decades. c. A string of beads of 5 or 15 decades on
which these prayers are counted. 2. Similar beads used by
other religious groups. [Middle English, rose garden, from
Medieval Latin ros³rium, rose garden, rosary, from Latin,
rose garden, from neuter of ros³rius, of roses, from rosa,
rose.]

see also Eddins' *Gnostic Pynchon* the Rose, Chartres...

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be....


PS I have a cousin named Geronimo, he's Puerto Rican, but I
do love seeing list members
come together. 


The Big Schlemihl, 

St. Jerome



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