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Among Catholic priests, a bead-roll was a list or catalog of people to be specially prayed for.
A bead-roll, or bead-row, may also be any list or catalog of names, or a pedigree. The term is also used for the beads of a rosary.

References

  1. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240242&isize=L
  2. "Bead-roll". ''Oxford English Dictionary". URL accessed 2006-03-06.
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