Thanks for the clarification, JohnM. My catechism is less solid than it used to be.
Just wanted to expound a bit on the Rosary. A full Rosary is divided into fifteen “decades,” each of which involve ten “Hail Marys” (the ten small beads), a “Glory Be” (a space between an Our Father and a Hail Mary, but a specific space), and an Our Father (the large beads). Most of the Rosaries you see are only five decades, however, as the full fifteen-decade variety is somewhat unwieldy for the average person to manage. The fifteen decades are broken up into three sets of five mysteries (I remember the first set are the Joyful Mysteries, and there are the Sorrowful Mysteries, but I’ve forgotten the last set’s title) - each mystery being an event in the life of the Virgin Mary. For instance, the Annunciation, the Crucifixion, the Assumption. To say a “full” Rosary, you actually should go around the decades of a smaller set of beads three times (The crucifix at the bottom of the Rosary represents, IIRC, the Apostle’s Creed). The idea is that, as you pray each decade, you should be focussing on the mystery that decade represents.