yes, my meeting with Pope Benedict was after the Wednesday public audience. We were permitted to line up immediately after the cardinals to meet him and to kiss his ring. As we left the dais, one of the Pope’s men [I’m sure there is a name for them but i do not know it] was passing rosaries from a small basket.
I remember late last summer, during a day trip pilgrimage to the Divine Mercy Shrine up in MA, my then, now retired archbishop gave out to each of use a gift rosary which was blessed by Pope Francis while he was in Rome.