"EMBRACE" Virgin Mary Cameo Religious Medal Bracelet

The Depths of the Love of Your Heart Virgin full of grace, I know that at Nazareth You lived modestly, without requesting anything more. Neither ecstasies, nor miracles,  nor other extra ordinary deeds enhanced Your life, O Queen of the elect. The number of the lowly,  "the little ones,"  is very great on earth. They can raise their eyes to You without any fear. You are the incomparable Mother who walks with them along the common way to guide them to heaven. Beloved Mother, in this harsh exile, I want to live always with You and follow You every day. I am enraptured by the contemplation of You and I discover the depths of the love of Your heart. All my fears vanish under Your motherly gaze, which teaches me to weep and to rejoice!  Amen. St. Therese De Lisieux

"EMBRACE"

Have you ever looked at a picture of Our Blessed Mother and felt Her embrace?

That's what I want to capture with this bracelet, I felt that embrace as She is embracing Our Lord Baby Jesus with Her protection loving care.

I wanted to also capture the bracelet to appear as a crown of flowers for Our Blessed Mother.

I used a beautiful resin cameo of Madonna of The Streets set in goldtone setting.

Other Catholic medals I used are Our Lady of Miraculous Medal, Our Lady of the Well, St. Padre Pio, St. Anthony with St. Francis of Assisi. St. Dominic with Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and St. Thomas Aquinas

I surrounded the cameo and medals with beautiful pearls and vintage flowers and lucite leaves to make the cameo stand out.

Holy Child of Atocha Religious Medals Charm Bracelet

History of El Santo Nino de Atocha (The Holy Child of Atocha)

The devotion to El Santo Nino de Atocha originated in Spain. Its origin may be related to Our Lady of Atocha, in Madrid, Spain, who is mentioned in the "Cantigas" of King Alphonse the Wise in the 13th century. During medieval times, the Moors held large areas and battles between the Christians and Moors were commonplace. The Moors invaded the town of Atocha. Following a certain battle, the victorious Moors held a great many Christians captive, and prevented the adult villagers from visiting as well as bringing the prisoners food or water. Fearing for the lives of the prisoners, their families stormed heaven with prayers for relief. One day, a child appeared, dressed as a pilgrim of that period, carrying a basket of food and a gourd of water. The Moors allowed the child to bring food and water each day. The prisoners were fed, but the basket and gourd remained full. The child was not known to the Christians nor to the Moors, so the people concluded that the child Jesus.

In artwork, the Holy Child often wears a brimmed hat with a plume and a cloak or cape ornate with the St. James shell. (During the Crusades, scallop shells were the symbol of holy pilgrimages and one European variety is still referred to as "the pilgrim" or "St. James' shell." Poets have written about their beauty and artists have admired their symmetry and grace.) In his left hand, He carries a pilgrim's staff to the gourd of water is fastened, a pair of shackles, and a few spears of wheat. In his right hand, He holds a basket which generally contains bread or flowers. He either wears sandals or is barefoot. The Child is said to roam the hills and valleys, particularly at night, bringing aid and comfort to the needy, and thereby wearing out his shoes. He is usually shown seated.

The original statue of the Holy Child of Atocha was imported from Spain and now resides in the little town of Fresnillo, Mexico. El Santo Nino de Atocha is the patron saint of those unjustly imprisoned. He also protects travelers and rescues people in danger.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Child Jesus as Holy Child of Atocha. I grew up with this image of Child Jesus and I used to love just watching it and it brought me comfort.

This bracelet I created in His honor using His image and setting the medal on a stunning ornate setting.

I used teal wedding lampwork beads to compliment the medals.

Catholic medals I used are St. Benedict, Miraculous Medal, St. Michael, St. Theresa, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Padre Pio, St. Martha and Mary Magdalene.

Vintage &New Virgin Mary Cameo Religious Medal Bracelet

Prayer for the Immaculate Queen of Peace

Most Holy and Immaculate

Virgin, Mother of Jesus

and our loving Mother,

being His Mother, you shared

in His universal kingship.

The prophets and angels

Proclaimed Him King of peace.

With loving fervor in our hearts

we salute and honor You as Queen of peace.

We pray that Your intercession

may protect us and all people

from hated and discord,

and direct our hearts

into the ways of peace and justice

which Your Son taught and exemplified.

We ask Your maternal care

for our Holy Father

who works to reconcile the nations in peace.

We seek Your guidance

for our President and other leaders

as they strive for world peace.

Glorious Queen of peace,

grant us peace in our hearts,

harmony in our families

and concord throughout the world.

Immaculate Mother,

as patroness of our beloved country,

watch over us and protect us

with Your motherly love. Amen.

I Just love this image of Our Blessed Mother with Baby Jesus with such loving expression to Our Lord and love how Baby Jesus just looks upon Her for reassurance. This cameo is a replica image of a painting of famous painter Sandro Botticelli "Madonna of the Magnificat".

I wanted to create a bracelet with not so many beads, like I usually use, but yet be a bold statement of our faith.

I attached the cameo to a beautiful mother of pearl pendant and adorned it with yellow rhinestones and brass angels.

I also added vintage and new medals and beads on a large link brass chain.

"LOVE" Jesus Cameo, Virgin Mary, Religious Bracelet

I had the inspiration to create a bracelet to reflect on LOVE and be a reminder of The Divine Love Our Lord and Blessed Mother have for all humanity

And the LOVE that we must radiate to others and to the world we live in and

I used different charms to represent a part of our life

Jesus Cameo to Love Our Lord as much as He Loves us

Vintage Virgin Mary medal also to Love Our Blessed Mother as much as She Loved Our Lord and Loves humanity

And for that LOVE to reflect on everything we do

LOVE nature that God created and loves as much as He loves us

LOVE our animals as they are too one of God's creations

LOVE the person in the mirror as was created by God

LOVE family as God resides in each one of us

LOVE your tears of joy as they represent love and gratitude

LOVE your tears of sorrow and pain as they will make you stronger and lead you to a process of growing spiritual and cleanse your soul

Virgin Mary OL Guadalupe, Saints Religious Bracelet

In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a poor Indian at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City; she identified herself as the Mother of the True God, instructed him to have the bishop build a temple on the site and left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on his tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth, which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay 474 years later and still defies all scientific explanations of its origin.

Today I was inspired to create another bracelet for Our Humble Lady of Guadalupe. I used red roses as The Rose being representative of Mary

The rose is regarded as the "queen of flowers", and often symbolizes Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Also an almost universal symbol of perfect love, its color, perfection of form, and fragrance, as well as its thorns signifies Mary's role in salvation history as the Mother of God the Savior who was crowned with thorns and shed His blood on the Cross for love of mankind. The rose, arising from a thorny bush, also signifies Mary, the Mystical Rose, "our fallen Nature's solitary boast", who alone of the human race was conceived without sin. It also may contain a parallel with the fiery thorn bush from which God spoke to Moses: Mary, immaculately conceived, was the means through which God became Man, The Word made flesh.)

I used red coral beads, natural jade gemstones and turquoise howlite beads. Catholic medals include Jesus as "The Good Shepherd", St. Michael, St. Jude, St. Dominic with Queen of Most Holy Rosary, St. Michael, St. Theresa and St. John of God.

I love this combination of stones for Our Lady of Guadalupe, it just brings back memories of a dream I had where She appeared wearing those colors and immediately I knew it was Our Lady of Guadalupe, but with different mantle with those colors and told me "I'm the same and don't tell anyone that I'm here and I look different, I want them to feel I'm here"

That is why I just love these colors.

My newest creations

I have been busy creating earrings for these past two days. I'm working on inspiration, I just had this inspiration and got me going on these earrings.

Here are just few pictures

St. Theresa

Two Hearts Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Our Lady of Medjugorje

Our Lady of Medjugorje

Virgin Mary Stella Maris

St. Michael

Our Lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Miraculous Medal

Vintage and New St. Padre Pio Religious Necklace

"Yes, I love the cross and only the cross. I love it because I see it always on the shoulders of Jesus. Now Jesus sees clearly that all my life and all my heart is vowed to Him and to His sufferings" -Padre Pio

I had the most unique experience creating this special necklace with St. Padre Pio.

I had his pewter statue for a while and I just could not come up with anything that I could use it on and I added it to a silvertone filigree stamping, but nothing was coming to my mind as to what else to add and I just set it aside.

About a week ago this special Lady "Sunny" sent me anther box full of beautiful surprises to continue making my jewelry and in that box was this old Jerusalem rosary with Terra Sancta center but it was broken and some Hail Mary beads missing. I set it aside on my beading table waiting to see how I could repair it.

Today when I went to my bead room to start creating, the rosary was right up front on my table, like it was moved and I set it aside, and later again, it was in front and St. Padre Pio's statue was almost peeking from where I had placed it and I just could not keep my eyes away from his statue and all of the sudden I get this surge of energy and I just grabbed the statue and the rosary together and it was just like nothing could stop me creating it. I began and didn't stop until I finished and everything just fell into place on his statue, adding all the rhinestones and I loved how it just came together, like St. Padre Pio wanted to be added to this special Rosary.