Modern Pray the Rosary Scented Candle

Praying the rosary is one of the most popular of Catholic devotions. Saints_Aplenty offers rosary candles in two styles: modern and traditional distinguished by different centerpieces and typefaces. The modern style uses an Art Nouveau central medallion of Mary as Virgo Virginum (Virgin of Virgins) and a modern sans serif font Kleptocracy Bold. The traditional style uses a central medallion of Mary derived from a detail of a Renaissance painting by Pietro Perugino entitled 'Madonna Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian' in the Uffizi Gallery and a more traditional but modernized blackletter font American Text. Both styles employ a budded silver cross. + This candle falls under the 'modern' heading. + You may change the color of the rosary beads by copying the rosary and text of the version you like from one of our rosary flags and resizing it to fit here. Copy the entire side of the flag and scale everything down at the same time. We do not recommend changing fonts, however, due to difficulties in fitting text to layout. And, don't forget to change the color of the circle behind the large medal to match your beads! + For the record, the colors most associated with the Rosary’s various Mysteries are gold or orange (modern Joyful); white or yellow (modern Luminous); purple or burgundy (modern Sorrowful); and sapphire blue or turquoise (modern Glorious); or, white (traditional Joyful), ruby red (traditional Sorrowful); and yellow (traditional Glorious). Because the Luminous Mysteries were not introduced until 2002 by Pope St. John Paul II, there are no “traditional” colors per se. For the sake of completeness, white and yellow commonly used today for the Luminous Mysteries can also be used for the Luminous Mysteries in the “traditional mode”. + The color of rosary beads can be chosen for a variety of reasons not just to conform to the Mysteries schema. You may, for instance, want to choose the color of your birthstone. So, suit yourself! + NOTE WELL: No actual gemstones or metals are used in the production of these designs. The medals, crosses, and beads are PRINTED! + October is the Month of the Holy Rosary. + Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: October 7. + Image Credit (Beads): Our rosary beads have all been extracted from one of two antique postcard series: Either 1) the Lucky Horseshoe Birthstone series, originally published by Adelbert Kohn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1907; or 2) the Gem Birthday (“star”) series, originally published by the Art Manufacturing Company, Amelia, Ohio, 1908-1915. Both postcard series are from the designer’s private collection. + Image Credit (Rosary Chains): Adapted by Saints_Aplenty from chain emojis. + Image Credit (Medallion): Antique image of Mary as Virgo Virginum (Virgin of Virgins) extracted from an early 20th-century French devotional print, original publisher unknown, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Image Credit (Cross): The faux silver budded cross is a Saints_Aplenty original.