Each decade is preceded by one Lord's Prayer ('Our Father'), and traditionally followed by one Glory Be. The prayers that compose the Rosary are arranged in sets of ten Hail Marys, called 'decades'.
When referring to the prayer, the word is usually capitalized ('the Rosary', as is customary for other names of prayers, such as 'the Lord's Prayer', and 'the Hail Mary') when referring to the prayer beads as an object, it is written with a lower-case initial letter (e.g.
The Rosary ( / ˈ r oʊ z ər i/ Latin: rosarium, in the sense of 'crown of roses' or 'garland of roses'), also known as the Dominican Rosary, refers to a set of prayers used primarily in the Catholic Church, and to the physical string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.
