In "The Secret
of the Rosary" the author, Saint Louis De Montfort, sets out to persuade his
readers why the rosary is the supreme prayer, and what benefits those who recite
the rosary can receive. It might seem that this small treatise on prayer would
be outdated, since it was written over two centuries ago; however, the
applications and directions that De Montfort explains are applicable to today's
faithful and faithless.