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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1269492, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, the letters are Greek. The Madonna on the box is the Οδηγήτρια or Hodigeitria, we call her Maria van Altijddurende Bijstand. The original is said to be one of the icons painted by saint Luke (Lucas).</p><p>The top letters are the abbreviation of Mother of God.</p><p>The angels are the archangels Michael and Gabriel. The one on the right carries the cross. Jesus looks over his shoulder to the cross, a sign of things to come. This posture of Jesus is a characteristic of the Hodigitria Madonna.</p><p>The box was made for a full rosary (with beads).</p><p><br /></p><p>The rosary is a rosary ring or prayer ring. It is not original to the box.</p><p>A rosary ring contains only one decade or part of the rosary, the ten beads/balls. Because it has only one decade it is called Faulenzer Rosenkranz (lazy person&#039;s rosary) in German.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> In Dutch it is sometimes called a &#039;soldatenrozenkrans&#039; a soldier rosary, but that is just a name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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