St. Bridget's 15 Prayers
The Fifteen prayers revealed by Our Lord to Saint Bridget of Sweden in the Church of St. Paul in Rome
Prayers approved by Pope Pius IX
This sentence of Pope Pius IX has been confirmed by the realization of promises by all persons who have recited the prayers and by numerous supernatural facts by which God wanted to make known their exact truth. A collection of small books, these prayers among them, was approved by the Great Congress of Malines on August 22, 1863.
Visitors to the Church of St. Paul in Rome can see the crucifix, above the Tabernacle in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, before which St. Bridget knelt when she received these 15 Prayers from our Lord. St. Bridget for a long time wanted to know the number of blows Our Lord received during His Passion. He one day appeared to her and said, "I received 5480 blows on My Body. If you wish to honor them in some way, recite fifteen times the Our Father and the Hail Mary, together with the following prayers, which I Myself will teach you for an entire year. When the year is finished, you will have honored each of My wounds."
One should not miss one day, one is obliged to start over again, if one doesn't want to lose the privileges attached to them, recite 5480 prayers during the year. One must say them with devotion and concentrate on the words one pronounces.
The Magnificent Promises from Our Lord to St. Bridget of Sweden
(The Promises from our Lord to those who do this devotion)
1. I will deliver 15 souls of his lineage from purgatory.
2. 15 souls of his lineage will be confirmed and preserved in grace.
3. 15 sinners of his lineage will be converted.
4. Whoever recites these Prayers will attain the first degree of perfection.
5. 15 days before his death, I will give him My Precious Body in order that he may escape eternal starvation, I will give him my Precious Blood to drink lest he thirst eternally.
6. 15 days before his death he will feel a deep contrition for all his sins and will have a perfect knowledge of them.
7. I will place before him the sign of My Victorious Cross for his help and defense against the attacks of his enemies.
8. Before his death I shall come with My Dearest Beloved Mother.
9. I shall graciously receive his soul, and will lead him into eternal joys.
10. And having led it there I shall give him a special draught from the fountain of My Deity, something I will not do for those who have not recited My Prayers.
11. Let it be known that whoever may have been living in a state of mortal sin for 30 years, but who will recite devoutly, or have the intention to recite these Prayers, I the Lord will forgive him all his sins.
12. I shall protect him from strong temptations.
13. I shall preserve and guard his five senses.
14. I shall preserve him from a sudden death.
15. His soul will be delivered from eternal death.
16. He will obtain all he asks for from God and the Blessed Virgin.
17. If he has lived all his life doing his own will and he is to die the next day, his life will be prolonged.
18. Every time one recites these Prayers he gains 100 days indulgence.
19. He is assured of being joined to the supreme Choir of Angels.
20. Whoever teaches these prayers to another will have continual joy and merit which will last throughout eternity.
21. There where these Prayers are being said or will be said in the future, God is present with His Grace.
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