The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary For Those Who Pray the Holy Rosary

As if you needed more reasons to pray the Rosary, have you heard of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s 15 promises for those who pray it regularly?

When the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Dominic and gave him the Rosary devotion, she also gave him these 15 promises of spiritual benefits for those who pray it.

At least that’s the story. As historians have pointed out since the 17th century, there’s no evidence of this story prior to the 15th century, when it was popularized by Bl. Alanus de Rupe.

Did Alanus just make it up? Was he confused by something else? Or did he have a source that has since been lost to us? It’s hard to tell.

Note that even if the promises were given by the Blessed Mother to St. Dominic, they would still fall into the category of “private revelation,” or something that’s not a part of public divine revelation and that Catholics are not obliged to believe.

Either way, these promises could still be taken as inspiration for praying the Rosary.

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 heart 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 a 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.