Rosary shortcuts ...

Before taking shortcuts, be sure you know the full rosary and go back to it every once in a while:

http://www.amm.org/prayers/rosary.aspx

There are many shortcuts for praying a partial rosary on a regular standard rosary, but here is a special non-standard rosary I would like to share with you called a palm rosary:

Pray a Palm Rosary

https://www.atonementfriars.org/pray-a-palm-rosary/ 

I recently got palm rosaries from the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and they are really nice; one of them was a Saint Peregrine healing rosary ( https://www.atonementfriars.org/st-peregrine-healing-rosary/ ) 

https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Article/TabId/535/ArtMID/13567/ArticleID/23304/Get-more-out-of-the-Rosary.aspx

... getting ready for Valentine's Day

Happy Saint Valentine's Day 2018 !

http://fbhygp.blogspot.com/2016/02/saint-valentines-day-february-14th.html

Saint Agatha and the Golden Legend

one thing leads to another in research ...

I was researching Saint Agatha (February 5th feast day) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_of_Sicily , and I came across this paragraph at the bottom of a web page http://www.christianiconography.info/agatha.html :

"The Golden Legend's story of St. Lucy begins with a visit to the sepulchre of St. Agatha, who intercedes with Christ to heal Lucy's mother of a bloody flux. The Metropolitan Museum in New York has a painting of this episode by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani." - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436050


What is the Golden Legend ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legend

read the Golden Legend online -
http://catholicsaints.info/the-golden-legend-by-blessed-jacobus-de-voragine/


"Saint Agatha ... is one of seven women, ... along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, [who] are commemorated by name in the [Catholic] Canon of the Mass." - https://thecatholictravelguide.com/destinations/italy/sicily/catania-italy-cathedral-tomb-saint-agatha/

one of a kind shopping experience ?
lets check it out - https://catholiconline.shopping/