My Dad repaired an orphanage with his own money. To honor the Catholic children there, he met with the Pope to have thier rosaries blessed (prayer beads). For the longest time, I thought it was strange that the orphanage allowed my Dad to travel with their "roses".
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- In the Hail Mary prayer, I used to say 'Bless a dark fowl among women' rather than 'blessed art though'Anon
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor
- i used to think that the pope was married but also i thought howcome her wife never appeared on TV— jp
- I used to believe when I was a child that when I was injured, the wound would never be repaired or cured.— solid
- I used to believe that training wheels were the different colored beads on the spokes.— Samantha
- I used to think that bath beads were candy until I bit into one! What a shock that it was soap!— ~K~