[miss marmelstein]

What is your proof that it is not her rosary? I don't doubt that they are given to people as a memento but how do you know she doesn't own one? I have inherited several from my mother. I suspect she was raised in some Catholic Orthodox tradition even if she doesn't practice it.

[xsmommy]

I have no proof. I am merely relating what I know to happen at that particular event based on personal knowledge and saying it cannot be used to prove she is Catholic. I have no idea if she is or isn’t. But the priest standing there offered her the rosary and I heard her say “oh, I would love that” and then the Pope blessed it for her.