Why does ‘Mary’ have beads here?
Does she pray, “Hail Mary - Mother of GOD...” ?
No, because it would be inappropriate; she did, however, pray the Glory Be at the end of each decade of the Rosary. We know this from Bernadette herself.
(In fact, it would be indicative of fraud if Bernadette reported that Mary said either the Hail Mary or the Our Father, as both prayers are only appropriate for man in his fallen state.)
L.C., kindly stop posting your anti-Catholic snarks to me, now and forever. I am in a Reform confession; but still am glad that the man in the OP came to Christ, and presumably is reading the gospels.
If you had looked closely at the photo, you would see that SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE SCULPTOR had merely hung the beads on the Mary figure, and it's not established why they did that—they could have found the rosary while passing by on the sidewalk outside the church and kindly used the statuette as a Lost & Found.
And furthermore, Jim Robinson himself has warned us not to bash Catholicism on the Forum.
If you were truly secure in your salvation, you would feel no need to sneer at denominations other than your own. It's tiresome.