St. Gertrude and the Gold Coins

Attribution: from the life of St. Gertrude.

One day St. Gertrude had a vision of our Lord counting out gold coins. She gathered the courage to ask him what he was doing.

He answered, "I am counting the Hail Marys that you have said. This is the money with which you purchase heaven."

It was a simple picture with a deep lesson, that not one of her prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary had been lost, and that each had been treasured up like coin toward eternal life.

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Source:

Simplified retellings of the miracle and conversion stories that St. Louis de Montfort gathered in The Secret of the Rosary, written in the early eighteenth century. These are paraphrased in plain modern prose, faithful to the substance of the traditional English translation but not word for word. Montfort himself called them "ancient but authentic stories about the holy Rosary," collected from earlier authors such as Blessed Alan de la Roche, and offered on human authority, not as articles of faith.