The Man Freed by the rosary Around his Neck

Attribution: related by Blessed Alan de la Roche.

Blessed Alan de la Roche told of a man he knew who was possessed by an evil spirit and had tried every kind of devotion to be rid of it, but nothing worked.

At last he thought of simply wearing his rosary around his neck. That eased him greatly. And he found that whenever he took it off, the devil tormented him cruelly again, so he resolved never to be without it.

The lesson Montfort draws is plain: even a pair of rosary beads is a terror to the enemy, and the Blessed Virgin Mary's prayer is a shelter to those who keep it close.

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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.