Blessed Alan de la Roche and Dominic the Prussian, revived the Rosary during the
last quarter of the 15th century, after a period of about 100 years where the Rosary
had been forgotten. Thousands were inspired by Bl. Alan's claim that
the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him, telling him to take up the work started
by St. Dominic, the founder of Bl. Alan's own order.
The Blessed
Virgin Mary gave Bl. Alan 15 promises from her for regularly praying the Rosary.
These promises are:
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve
me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2.
I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall
recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell,
it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It
will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant
mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world
and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh,
that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which
recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6.
Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the
consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune.
God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided
death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy
of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary
shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who
are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their
death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death,
they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.
9.
I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10.
The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit high degree of glory
in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation
of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be
aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine
Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire
Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All
who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15.
Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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