Pray the Rosary Flags COLLECTION

New for October! + October is the Month of the Holy Rosary. Our “Pray the Rosary” House and Garden flags series provides a daily reminder to participate in that most popular of Catholic devotions. At present, there are 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. Each style features rosaries in the colors most associated with the Rosary’s various Mysteries on a coordinating or contrasting background hue: 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, we are offering as an option house and garden flags in the “traditional mode” but with the colors commonly used today for the Luminous Mysteries, that is, white and yellow. Both styles employ a budded silver cross. NOTE WELL: All elements of these flat, 2-dimensional flags are PRINTED! No actual gemstones or metals are used in their production. + While the colors of the various rosaries themselves are fixed, the background and text colors can be changed. 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, if you like, choose a set of rosary beads, and then, change the background and text colors to suit your own criteria. We do not recommend changing fonts, however, due to difficulties fitting text to layout. + Also available are flags for house and garden featuring Our Lady of the Rosary (Feast: October 7).