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they each have six decades instead of five. The seven Pater beads honor the Seven
Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the sixty-three Ave Maria beads commemorate
the sixty-three years it is believed the Blessed Mother lived on this earth before
her Assumption. In addition, the Apostles' Creed is recited at the end of each
decade as opposed to the Glory Be.
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