First used to assist in the recitation of the 150 Psalms.

From Wikipedia: In the medieval era, those persons who were illiterate simply recited the Lord's Prayer (known as the Pater Noster in Ecclesiastical Latin) 150 times instead of the 150 Psalms, hence giving these Christian prayer beads the name of the Paternoster cord.

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