St Mary's Faithjoy (Santarem - Portugal)

Until now, St Mary's Faithjoy seeds have been extracted from the banks of the Tagus to make rosaries for young peasant girls about to get married who in a fertility ritual recite their rosary until the liveliest seeds, continually coated in the damp earth in their hands, begin to sprout.
When they die, their grateful children place in their mother's hands the seeds of the rosary that never germinated in an earthenware pot.