Stunning chaplet
56cm in length
Prayer sheet included - Boxed
We used 6 x 8mm Austrian Glass crystal in Blood Red. Each crystal is capped with tiny flower spacers, which in turn has tiny glass seed beads on either side. The center piece features the Ecce Homo and Our Lady of Grace. The crucifix is the Thorn Crucifix, depicting the pain Jesus endured. 5.5cm
Our Speciality rosaries and chaplets are handmade in South Africa. We take care to ensure that these rosaries are UNIQUE in design. Therefore we only have one listed rosary under our special rosaries, and usually a limited edition of our Chaplet design. We also take pride in using good quality beads, chain, pins, center pieces and crucifix's. We make to order to your specific needs and requests
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History of The Seven Wounds
Jesus specifically asked that people be made aware of his left shoulder. Our Lord's left shoulder bothered him extremely while carrying the cross on the way to Golgotha*. The left shoulder* was torture inflicted on him by the centurions who insisted he carry the cross on his left shoulder that was ripped open while being scourged at the pillars. Jesus dragged the cross on that shoulder for several miles.
Jesus was bound in the garden and dragged, flogged and pulled upright to fall again. Christ fell to his knees several hundred times on the way to his two separate trials, first with Herod and then with Pilate. Jesus was never allowed to rest or even sit down. He was forced to stand for hours. Pity.... His only rest was on the cross.
Jesus suffocated and suffered in agony while nailed to the cross. The wound in Jesus's side was due to the upcoming feast of Passover, The Day of Preparation, which began at sunset. The Jews wanted no signs of death to mar the solemn feast day so they asked Pilate to have the legs broken of the 3 men and the bodies be taken away. Usually those crucified on the cross stayed there several days until they finally died. They broke the legs of those crucified to speed up the suffocation. The soldiers came and broke the legs of the two thieves that were crucified next to Jesus but when they came to Jesus, he was already dead. Seeing this, one of the centurions thrust a lance piercing the side of Jesus ensuring he was dead.
Additional information:
* Golgotha, place of the sculls where Christ was offered gall to drink is on the summit of Mt. Calvary.
* Shoulder, Wounds to the left shoulder spoken of by Christ in revelation to St. Bernard, St. Bridget, St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungry, St. Matilda
* Gall by the way, although it tasted terrible, was wine mixed with herbs to deaden the pain of crucifixion. It was not another torture by the centurions.
