Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan

What Our Lady is said to have promised those who pray the Rosary.

A list of fifteen promises attached to the Rosary has circulated in the Catholic world for centuries, traditionally traced to Our Lady’s words to St. Dominic and later to Blessed Alan de la Roche. They are widely printed, widely loved, and worth understanding correctly.

The Promises

1. Those who 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 who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armour against hell; it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish, and will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God.
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.
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.
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 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.

How to Read Them

These promises are private revelation. The Church has never defined them, and no Catholic is required to believe them. Read as guarantees, they mislead — no prayer obliges God, and a devotion practised as insurance is not devotion. Read as encouragement from a mother to keep praying, they are what they were always meant to be.

The eleventh promise is the one to weigh carefully. Everything asked in prayer is granted, but not always in the form asked for; that qualification is the whole of Christian experience, and it applies here too.