Our Lady's Rosary Makers

According to the OLRM Web site, its 17,000 members, in the U.S. and other countries, make and distribute roughly seven million cord and chain rosaries annually for missions around the world, and have distributed hundreds of millions of rosaries to Catholic missions worldwide.

[1] The organization traces its roots to Xaverian Brother Sylvan Mattingly (1882–1951), who in 1949 started making rosaries and formed a rosary-making club, which he originally named Our Lady of Fátima Rosary Making Club, at St. Xavier High School.

By 2013, they averaged filling 6.5 million orders a year for rosary making supplies.

There are also requests for Rosaries from prison and hospital chaplains, religious educators, etc.

The makeup and characteristics of the members are diverse: some are working adults, some are blind or otherwise disabled, some are elementary school students, while others are in retirement homes.