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The rosary is a scripture-based prayer in the Catholic faith. Mary, the Mother of Jesus, asked us to pray the rosary as a meditation on the mysteries of Jesus' life. Each prayer corresponds to a bead on a string of beads also called a rosary. In this article, we’ll show you how to make a simple rosary with cord and beads, a more complex rosary made with a chain, and a single-decade rosary, or sacrifice beads.