Henriette Decade Bracelet | Medium

This beautiful gemstone decade bracelet features Snow Quartz beads as the paters and Magnesite  beads as the aves. Each bracelet also includes a “bookmark” crucifix medal.  This medal is moveable and can help you keep track of where you are at in your rosary as you pray throughout your day. Each bracelet is strung on durable elastic making it easy to stretch and wrap around your wrist without fear of snapping it.  *Cross bead may vary Born March 11 1813 in New Orleans Louisiana. Her mother was a free woman of color and her father was from France. In 1836 she founded a small unrecognized congregation or order of nuns, which she named as the Sisters of the Presentation. The original members consisted of DeLille, seven other young Creole women, and a young French woman. They cared for the sick, helped the poor, and instructed free  and enslaved children and adults. They took into their home some older women who needed more than visitation and thereby opened America's first Catholic home