Gifts are undoubtedly the major highlight of Christmas. Rosary makes a wonderful Christmas gift. You cannot resist the temptation of collecting Rosary as gift items.

Rosaries come in mostly two types, the chain and the corded. The chain usually are of three types. The simple chain is the most common type. The wire wrapped rosary is not so popular. The third is ladder which is basically a rosary made horizontally of two chains.
Generally a set of Rosary beads contains 50 beads in groups of ten. The ten signifies a decade, with an additional large bead before each decade. The rosary beads can be prepared from a wide range of materials, including glass, wood, bone, crushed flowers, semi-precious stones such as jet, amber, agate and jasper, or precious materials including rock crystal, coral, gilded silver and gold.
It is especially in vogue for beads to be made of material with some unique importance, such as jet from the shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, or olive seeds supposedly from the Garden of Gethsemane. Beads are also made to enclose sacred relics, or drops of holy water.