Thank you for stopping by!
Gardens of Grace opened it's virtual doors in 2004, but we have been designing and selling rosaries and chaplets since 1999. We are just a small, home-based, internet business with the goal of helping others to create jewelry and beads of prayer using beautiful hand cast crucifixes, crosses, saints medals and centers. As our beloved Pope John Paul II said in the quote below, "Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence." These bronze and sterling pieces call to mind a time when all churches were arrayed in artistic splendor with the sole purpose of giving greater glory and honor to our Creator. It is our hope and prayer that they will truly inspire you and your loved ones and "stir that hidden nostalgia for God".
God bless,
Alice
(You can also visit me at my blog.)
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"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to
savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can
never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty
like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: “Late have I loved you,
beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!”"
Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Artists, from the Vatican,
4 April 1999, Easter Sunday
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