Confraternity of the Holy Rosary
The Confraternity of the Holy Rosary was first granted Church recognition through the efforts of Bl. Alan de la Roche in
1475 and had almost 500,000 members four years later. Membership fluctuated with time, with high points being in 1571 (Pius V's Rosary crusade leaving to the victory at
Lepanto against the Moslems), 1573 (when October 7 was established as the Feast of the
Holy Rosary), the early 18th century (preaching of St. Louis de Montfort) and
1898 (Leo XIII's formal re-establishment of the Confraternity and other encyclicals). Today it
remains under the care of the Domincan Order.
Obligations
An individual must have his/her name formally enrolled in the official Dominicans Confraternity. Members must also pray
the entire Rosary (15 decades) through completely each week in private or at a public gathering (more frequent praying is encouraged but not required).
Benefits/Indulgences
The indulgences listed may be plenary if the Confraternity member specifically desires to gain the indulgence,
goes to Confession (within 8 days of the day), receives Holy Communion, prayers for the Pope's intentions, and is free from attachment to sin (including venial sin). Otherwise, a partial
indulgence is earned.
Indulgences
1. The day of enrollment in the Confraternity.
2. Christmas (December 25)
3. Feast of the Purification (Candlemas Day, February 2)
4. Feast of the Annunciation (March 25)
5. Easter Sunday
6. Feast of the Assumption (August 15)
7. Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7)
8. Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8)
9. Any day when prayed in a church, public oratory, as a family, with a religious community, or with a pious association.
Other Benefits
1. The special protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
2. Beneficial share (in life and after death) in the prayers of the thousands of Confraternity members worldwide.
3. A share in the prayers, Masses and apostolic works of the entire Dominican Order.
4. Intercession of the entire heavenly court.
Promises of the Virgin for Members Revealed to Bl. Alan
1. To all those who shall pray my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and great graces.
2. Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some special grace.
3. The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, deliver from sin and dispel heresy.
4. The rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies. It will draw 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. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish.
6. Whoever recites my Rosary devoutly reflecting on the mysteries, shall never be overwhelmed by misfortune. He will not experience the anger of God nor will he perish by an unprovided death. The sinner will be converted; the just will persevere in grace and merit eternal life.
7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite my Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces and will share in the merits of the blessed.
9. I will deliver promptly from purgatory souls devoted to my Rosary.
10. True children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in heaven.
11. What you shall ask through my Rosary you shall obtain.
12. To those who propagate my Rosary I promise aid in all their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have as their intercessors, in life and in death, the entire celestial court.
14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.
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