Wow! I didn't even know The Friendly Giant was Catholic! I guess the Irish-sounding theme-song should have given him away...
Well okay, it's not his rosary. It's a rosary made out of bowling balls. I just thought it might look like something the Friendly Giant could use...
This is the work of Bernard "Chub" Clark of Michigan. A newspaper report says:
He got it all done four years ago, linking each ball by ¼-inch log chain and attaching a 2-foot by 16-inch cross hewn from 4-by-4 treated lumber at the center. Word of his creation has gradually spread among the multitude, and various priests have dropped by for a visitation, too. In July, it made the front page of the Catholic Times, the official newspaper for the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, no less.
"After it came out in the Catholic Times, I don't know how many phone calls we got about it," says Wilma. "We've had a lot of people coming out here to take pictures of it."
Her husband even encountered a passer-by who confessed up front he was an atheist but, despite himself, couldn't hide his admiration for the bold handiwork wrought by a true believer. "He said he thought the rosary was really neat," recalls Clark, smiling. "So maybe it might be turning him around a little bit towards God, I don't know. It can't hurt, though, can it?"
H/T: The Curt Jester via The World...IMHO.
