The fifteen promises from the Blessed Virgin Mary given to Alanus de Rupe, OP, in the 1400s, to those who pray the Rosary devoutly:
- Those who faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary shall receive signal graces.
- I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
- The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
- The recitation of the rosary 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.
- The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary shall not perish.
- Those who recite my rosary devoutly, applying themselves to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. In His justice, God will not chastise them; nor shall they perish by an unprovided death, i.e., be unprepared for heaven. Sinners shall convert. The just shall persevere in grace and become worthy of eternal life.
- Those who have a true devotion to the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
- Those who faithfully 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.
- I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.
- The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
- By the recitation of the rosary you shall obtain all that you ask of me.
- Those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
- 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 their death.
- All who recite the rosary are my beloved children and the brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
- Devotion for my rosary is a great sign of predestination.
I came across these printed up as a blue paper bookmark by, I think, what was called at the time, say, 1969, The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima.
An historical fulfillment of these promises came to pass in the life of little Francisco of Fatima.
Father Robert Fox noted that “when Lucia asked if Francisco would go to heaven too, our Lady said, ‘Yes, but first he must say many rosaries.’ Learning this, Francisco cried out excitedly: ‘Oh, our Lady, I will say all the rosaries you wish!'”
I love that. But methinks that this admonition of our Lady would have to be changed a bit for myself. People have often reprimanded me for being presumptuous about wanting to make it to heaven, but I counter that we must have hope, that it is a sin not to have hope. Having said that, if I were to somehow make it to heaven, it is not at all merely “many rosaries” that I would have to say; our Lady surely tells me in my sorry case: “very, very, very, very many rosaries.” I’m trying to catch up for my lack. Better late than never.
ARISE! LET US BE GOING! 
Re: The many, many Rosaries.
Don’t forget all the Rosaries said for you, Father! Those count, too; both now, and after…
Thank you….
I’m committed to the daily rosary (…ies) and have been for years. It’s that “devoutly” part where I fall so very short … oh the distractions! I’m praying for graces for trying.
Exactly.
We used to have blue and orange/gold cardboard bookmarks. The blue sounds like what Father mentions. It encouraged devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, listing her promises re the Rosary; the orange/gold bookmark was the same size and encouraged devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and listed His promises. These bookmarks didn’t arrive with us on our last move but I have found them, or something very like them, on line. For anyone interested, links are below to those published by TAN Books
https://tanbooks.com/products/books/fifteen-promises-prayer-card-pack-of-100/
and
https://tanbooks.com/products/books/twelve-promises-of-the-sacred-heart-prayer-card-pack-of-100/
Re: Father Robert Fox noted that “when Lucia asked if Francisco would go to heaven too, our Lady said, ‘Yes, but first he must say many rosaries.’ Learning this, Francisco cried out excitedly: ‘Oh, our Lady, I will say all the rosaries you wish!’”
13th May 1917
“… there before us on a small holmoak, we beheld a Lady all dressed in white. She was more brilliant than the sun, and radiated a light more clear and intense than a crystal glass filled with sparkling water, when the rays of the burning sun shine through it.
We stopped, astounded, before the Apparition. We were so close, just a few feet from her, that we were bathed in the light which surrounded her, or rather, which radiated from her. Then Our Lady spoke to us:
“Do not be afraid. I will do you no harm.”
“Where are you from?”
“I am from Heaven.”
“What do you want of me?”
“I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession, on the 13th day, at this same hour. Later on, I will tell you who I am and what I want. Afterwards, I will return here yet a seventh time.”
“Shall I go to Heaven too?”
“Yes, you will”
“And Jacinta?”
“She will go also.”
“And Francisco?”
“He will go there too, but he must say many Rosaries.”
Then I remembered to ask about two girls who had died recently. They were friends of mine and used to come to my home to learn weaving with my eldest sister.
“Is Maria das Neves in Heaven?”
“Yes, she is.” (I think she was about 16 years old).
“And Amélia?”
“She will be in purgatory until the end of the world.”
(It seems to me that she was between 18 and 20 years of age).
“Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?”
“Yes, we are willing.”
“Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.”
As she pronounced these last words “…the grace of God will be your comfort”, Our Lady opened her hands for the first time, communicating to us a light so intense that, as it streamed from her hands, its rays penetrated our hearts and the innermost depths of our souls, making us see ourselves in God, Who was that light, more clearly than we see ourselves in the best of mirrors. Then, moved by an interior impulse that was also communicated to us, we fell on our knees, repeating in our hearts:
“O most Holy Trinity, I adore You! My God, my God, I love You in the most Blessed Sacrament!”
After a few moments, Our Lady spoke again:
“Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war.”
Then she began to rise serenely, going up towards the east, until she disappeared in the immensity of space. The light that surrounded her seemed to open up a path before her in the firmament, and for this reason we sometimes said that we saw heaven opening.
(Fatima in Lucia’s own words, p. 174-176 at link below)
https://www.piercedhearts.org/hearts_jesus_mary/apparitions/fatima/MemoriasI_en.pdf
It troubles me that some I have spoken to have mistakenly interpreted Our Lady’s words concerning Francisco to mean that he was not as good as Lucia and Jacinta, and therefore needed to pray many Rosaries before he would be worthy of being admitted into Heaven.
Francisco was baptised in infancy and but a child when Our Lady appeared in 1917, turning 9 years old just two days before her 2nd visit in June. Furthermore, “original documents (written by Dr Carlos Mendes and Canon Formigao) show us that Francisco before and during the time of the apparitions of Our Lady, was a … straightforward shepherd-boy, a perfect ‘serrano’ (mountain lad) without any problems, moral defects or complexes of any kind” (p.16 at above link).
The following observation by Lucia is helpful in furthering our understanding of Francisco. The special focus of Jacinta and Francisco differed: for Jacinta it was “converting sinners and saving souls from going to hell”; for Francisco it was “consoling Our Lord and Our Lady, who had seemed to him to be so sad” (p. 157 at above link).
It seems most likely that Francisco needed to say so many Rosaries in order to receive, before his death in less than 2 years (April 1919), what a footnote (No. 5 on page 144) refers to as “the gift of highest contemplation”.
I have taken up a lot of space with this comment and if Father does not mind, would like to continue in the comment section of his next post where Father writes about the Rosary leading to the Most Blessed Sacrament, for this is what happened to Francisco.
Please do!
Then I will, thank you Father, but before leaving here I would like to say one more thing.
You said: “People have often reprimanded me for being presumptuous about wanting to make it to heaven, but I counter that we must have hope, that it is a sin not to have hope.” You are in good company, Father, for Saint Francisco felt the same as you. He said to Lucia on more than one occasion, “Our Lady told us that we would have much to suffer, but I don’t mind. I’ll suffer all that she wishes! What I want is to go to Heaven!” (p. 143 at link to book given above)