When my father-in-law fell very ill, I prayed this rosary. It had something like a dull silver-plated coating on it. I prayed to please let us be able to go back to KK and for me to give this rosary to him. With the covid situation we had to get the necessary travel permits and MAS flights were only once a week.
The rosary was special to me because I had placed this rosary in Feona's hands to pray when she passed. Her family had returned the rosary to me, having given her her own rosary when they laid her to rest.
We arrived on Saturday and went into mandatory quarantine. When we visited my father-in-law on Sunday, I managed to place the rosary in his hand, prayed a short prayer and say a few brief words to him. I was happy to see that he still had the rosary in his hand during the funeral mass. After mass the rosary was given to me to hold.
This was when I was surprised to see that the rosary had turned from silver into a brilliant gold colour! Somehow the silver coating had completely come off or vanished and it was consistently gold all around, the beads, the cross, everything! I do not have a photo of the silver rosary but Cayla and Chris can confirm that the rosary was silver before because they had also seen and held the rosary earlier.
I believe the gold rosary is God's way of showing how my father-in-law had a HEART OF GOLD as he was always so loving and kind to us. And that Jesus and Mother Mary were with him holding his hand.
I returned the rosary to my father-in-law when we laid him to rest at the Catholic cemetery.
May his soul rest in peace and may His perpetual light shine on him. He is with God now and the memory of his heart of gold will always remain with us
