Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.
Like many nursery rhymes, it has acquired various historical explanations. One theory is that it is a religious allegory of Catholicism, with Mary being Mary. The mother of Jesus, bells representing the sanctus bells, the cockleshells, the badges of the pilgrims to the shrine of Saint James in Spain (Santiago de Compostela), and pretty maids are nuns.
Read it and discover the value of having a heavenly Mother who will help you better understand her son Jesus Christ.
