Pagan peoples crowned their statues with roses as symbols of their own hearts.
Reportedly as young virgins marched over the sands of the Colosseum into the jaws of death, they clothed themselves in festive robes and wore on their heads a crown of roses, bedecked, fittingly, to meet the King of Kings in Whose name they would die. The faithful, at night, would gather up these crowns of roses and say their prayers on them --- one prayer for each rose.
Rosary means "crown of roses"
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