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Here is a Rosary that I made of fossils for an elderly Dominican Sister friend. The cross is late-Triassic petrified wood from the Chinle Group of New Mexico. Jesus is carved from wood from a 50-ft log, with a diameter of nearly 5 ft, that was dredged from a depth of 40 ft in river-deposited sand and gravel in Indiana. A sample from the outer part of the log was radiocarbon dated at 1,920 +/- 60 years BP. The tree had over 300 rings, so would have been alive at the time of Jesus. The Halo is a bivalve from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida. The center-piece is a Stropheodonta demissa brachiopod from the Middle Devonian of Ohio The "Our Fathers" are Platystrophia ponderosa brachiopods from the Late Ordovician of Kentucky. The decades are matrix with inclusions of the calcareous marine alga formerly known as "Solenopora" (nom. Illeg.) from the late Ordovician of Kentucky. The second photo has an American quarter dollar coin for scale. Suffice it to say, this is a relatively large Rosary. Thanks for looking.