Description

Birthstone Rosary – June – Pearl

strung threaded Rosary design

stunning rosary

53cm in length

boxed

We used 6mm faux Glass  pearl beads.  Each bead is capped with silver plated flower spacers, which in turn have tiny glass clear seed beads on either side. The Mystery beads are  mixture of various sized faux glass pearl beads. Each bead is capped with  silver plated flower caps.  The center piece features Our lady Immaculate Heart and Sacred Heart of Jesus on the reverse in a heart . The crucifix has pearls on all four corners – 5.5cm – truly beautiful

We make to order to your specific needs and requests. Our Specialty rosary’s 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.

Pearls are the only gemstones in the world that are created by living organisms. Mollusks produce Pearls by depositing calcium carbonate layers around microscopic irritants that get stuck in the shells.

While any shelled mollusk has the ability to create a Pearl, only two groups of bivalve mollusks


make use of Mother-of-Pearl


to create the iridescent nacreous pearls which are very valuable in the jewelry world.

The name Pearl comes from the Old French word

‘perle’,

and from the Latin word

‘perna’

, which means

leg

, referencing the leg-of-mutton shape of an open mollusk shell.

Perfectly smooth and round natural Pearls are quite uncommon, so the word Pearl can attribute anything that’s valuable and rare.

The most expensive and most unique Pearls are natural Pearls that were created in the wild.

Pearls are very soft and fragile gemstones, ranging between 2.5 and 4.5 on the Mohs hardness scale. They are also quite sensitive to acidity and extreme heat.

In fact, calcium carbonate is so sensitive to acid that Pearls will dissolve when it comes in contact with vinegar.

The finest and most beautiful Pearls have a reflective luster, making them appear creamy white with a rainbow-like sheen that casts many colorful hues.

Cultured freshwater Pearls can also be dyed black, purple, pink, brown, blue, green, or yellow.

In many cultures, Pearls are a symbol of innocence and purity, which explains why it’s traditional for brides to wear white Pearls on her wedding day.

Apart from being one of three birthstones for June, Pearl is also the birthstone of people born under the zodiac signs Cancer and Gemini.

They are often given as presents for the first, third, twelfth, and thirtieth wedding anniversaries.

Pearls have been used as adornments for many centuries, as far back as ancient Greece where people believed Pearls were the tears of the gods.

The oldest known Pearl jewelry was discovered in the sarcophagus of a Persian princess who died in 520 B.C.

Ancient Japanese folktales told the stories that Pearls came from the tears of mythical creatures like nymphs and mermaids.

The Pearl is associated with chastity and modesty


. Pearls are also often used to help with marital problems and achieve stable marriages