John F. Kennedy’s personally-owned rosary beads presented to Sister Fabiola Parent of the Sinsinawa Sisterhood by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1974. The standard rosary of wooden beads, strung with a fine metal chain and bearing a Miraculous medal with worn metallic crucifixion cross and corpus, measures approximately 20˝ in length. In fine condition.Accompanied by several copies of newspaper articles detailing the rosary’s history and sequence of ownership. Sister Fabiola, known also as the ‘Rosary Sister,’ established her own rosary museum with the estimated 28,000 rosaries she created during her lifetime. Included among her collection were rosaries that belonged to Mother Teresa, British Royalty, and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. At some period after JFK’s death, Sister Fabiola visited the president’s gravesite and collected petals from the ground’s array of rose bushes. From those petals she made a special rosary for the Kennedy family matriarch, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who returned the gesture in kind by sending to Sister Fabiola the rosary beads of her late son. The JFK rosary was then added to her museum at the St. Clara Academy in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Elevated by its superb provenance, this is a remarkably rare presidential keepsake once owned by America's lone Roman Catholic president.