The Disorderly King Restored

Attribution: from The Secret of the Rosary, Fourth Decade.

Alphonsus, a king in Spain, had been living a disordered life, and after many misfortunes he was driven to take refuge in a town belonging to one of his allies. It happened that St. Dominic was there on Christmas Day, preaching the Rosary and the graces it wins, and saying that those who prayed it devoutly would overcome their enemies and regain all they had lost.

The King listened closely and sent for Dominic to ask whether it was really true. Assured that nothing was more certain, he resolved to pray the Rosary every day, and he kept it up for a full year. The next Christmas, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him as he finished his Rosary. "Alphonsus, you have served me for a year by praying my Rosary faithfully," she said, "so I have come to reward you. I have obtained the forgiveness of your sins from my Son. Take this rosary, wear it, and none of your enemies will be able to harm you."

Overjoyed, the King hurried to the Queen, who had lost her sight, and touched her eyes with the rosary, and she was healed. From then on he never faced any trial without praying his Rosary on his knees first. He brought his whole court into the Confraternity, and he and the Queen lived holy lives to the end.

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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.