Are the 15 promises of Mary a legit thing?

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In case you didn’t know the 15 promises are from the Rosary and it consists of promises that the virgin Mary supposedly made to those who pray the Rosary daily. Where did these promises come from and how do I know they are legitimate? (Besides the “Imprimatur” on the booklet)

PS: I pray the Rosary myself and I was just wondering.
 
It is said that Our Lady gave the promises Herself directly to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche. Patrick J. Hayes, Archbishop of NY (1919-1938) gave his Imprimatur to the English translation
 
Here they 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 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 them- selves by this means.
  5. The soul which recommend 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 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.
  14. All who recite the rosary are my son, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ
  15. Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan)
Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes DD Archbishop of New York
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You can see at the bottom that they were supposedly revealed to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan.
Nowadays, after the Imprimatur, you might see these words:
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Code: 
The "Nihil Obstat" and "Imprimatur" are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and the Imprimatur agree with the content, opinions or statements expressed.
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Please know that the presence of an Imprimatur does not mean that a book is an official text of the Church. It doesn’t make the book the equivalent of an encyclical, say. It’s not the approval of the work by the Pope or a dogmatic Council, and it’s not a stamp of infallibility. It doesn’t even mean that everything in the book is accurate, only that there is nothing in it that contradicts Catholic dogma. But, while occasionally a book sneaks through and its Imprimatur later recalled, this procedure is an important way for Catholics to increase their chances of staying error-free with regard to doctrine. Sadly, because of the triumph of modernsists and liberals in the human aspect of the Church since the Second Vatican Council, books which could well contain a watered-down theology, a warped view of History, etc. now do receive the “Imprimatur.”
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(fisheaters.com/imprimatur.html)

Unfortunately, I could not find anything else as to their origin.
 
Yes! And Our Lady will grant so much more by her intercession, if we simply ask her lovingly and humbly by praying the Holy Rosary.
 
Disclaimer: I faithfully pray the Rosary every day, and have a great deal of love for Our Lady,

…however I’ve always been a bit unsure about the first promise “Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary”. The “serve me” part seems like its awfully close to idolatry.
 
People seem to have doubt about what Our Blessed Mother and her Son have told the world.

Review the Visions of Sr Lucy of Fatima from 1925 when Jesus Christ appeared to her in person not once, but twice. And listen very carefully to what “Jesus Christ” has to say about the Promises and sins against the Blessed Mother.

While prayer to the Blessed Mother is not a requirement to obtain heaven.

Listen very carefully to what Christ said about the Sacred Heart of Mary in reference to this topic and Blaspheme against his mother.

God Bless, GT
 
Kropotkin said:
Disclaimer: I faithfully pray the Rosary every day, and have a great deal of love for Our Lady,

…however I’ve always been a bit unsure about the first promise “Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary”. The “serve me” part seems like its awfully close to idolatry.
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To persevere through an entire life with reverence to obtain these Promise’s. I assure you is not an easy feat. Not many make it.

Idolatry is the game played today by satan to deflect attention to the Blessed Mother who sends all Souls to God. All Souls go to God through her. She is “another” path to God, for those who struggle to find God and Faith in God. She is a Blessing not many find in this world. Taking Her lightly is Fools Play and ignorance.
 
GaryTaylor said:
Idolatry is the game played today by satan to deflect attention to the Blessed Mother who sends all Souls to God. All Souls go to God through her. She is “another” path to God, for those who struggle to find God and Faith in God. She is a Blessing not many find in this world. Taking Her lightly is Fools Play and ignorance.
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No offense intended but the way you worded that sort of bothers me. I don’t think it was your intention to make it seem this way, but when you see “another path to God” it sounds a lot like idolatry when God the Son (Jesus) is the only way to God the Father. At the same time I don’t doubt that mother Mary is capable of leading people to God but saying “another path” sounds sort of off to me.

Perhaps a better way of saying what you said would be “She leads people to the correct path to God”.
 
GaryTaylor said:
All Souls go to God through her. She is “another” path to God, for those who struggle to find God and Faith in God. .
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whoa there! She is NOT “another path to God”. Jesus is THE only path to God!
 
I once asked a priest about the scapulars of Mary I’ve seen people wear that say that whoever dies wearing the scapular will go to heaven. The person wearing the scapular doesn’t go to heaven simply because he or she is wearing the scapular. They wear the scapular as an outward expression of an inward reality. They are faithful to God and that is why they wear the scapular.

I am inclined to think that these 15 promises can be interpreted in a similar light. If you pray faithfully daily, graces, protection, good works, and other blessings will follow. I don’t know if the 15 promises are strictly legitimate in that “if you do this daily, then these things WILL happen.” Though we haven’t established their legitimacy, these 15 promises might still be worth reflecting on.
 
Sandalwood said:
whoa there! She is NOT “another path to God”. Jesus is THE only path to God!
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She is more like a signpost that says “Jesus is this way.”

You know like the signposts you see on roads directing you to where certain locations are located.
 
The issue is St. Dominick was not the one to reveal the promises. It was someone (I can’t recall) like 1 or 200 years later who reported visions of seeing St. Dominicks life and then the rosary promises.

So it is like a bit of a stretch to a point that it happened. And last I researched, the church does not take an affirmative position that the promises happened but that there is no harm in believing they did. As a highly prayerful life usually produces the same no?
 
Private revelations are not universally binding. It is a pious thing to believe the promises but not an obligation. Praying the Rosary is a good thing to do because it helps us to meditate on the Gospel and brings us to Jesus through Mary. If we receive Jesus and He receives us then that is all that the heart can desire.
 
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