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Spiritual Reading

Saint Louis Marie de Montfort — An Apostle of Mary

P. M. Fennessy

Towards the end of the seventeenth-century, a young man named LOUIS MARIE GRIGNON DE LA BACHELERAIE decided to surrender all things for Christ—even his name. For his family name he substituted MONTFORT, the place of his birth. He has become famous since his canonization in 1947 as Saint Louis Marie de Montfort.

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∶  Contents  ∷

  1. 1. Controversial Doctrine
  2. 2. Principal Objections
  3. 3. Four Means
  4. 4. Beginnings
  5. 5. Poverty, Sickness
  6. 6. Recovery
  7. 7. The Tree of Life
  8. 8. Home Missions
  9. 9. Threat of Jansenism
  10. 10. Friends of the Cross
  11. 11. Arrival at Poitiers
  12. 12. Hospital Chaplain
  13. 13. All Things to All Men
  14. 14. Opposition
  15. 15. Peace Follows
  16. 16. Persecution Follows
  17. 17. The Daughters of Wisdom
  18. 18. A Home Missionary
  19. 19. Modern Means
  20. 20. Other Parishes Follow
  21. 21. Pilgrimage to Rome
  22. 22. Rome at Last
  23. 23. Mission in France
  24. 24. Return to France
  25. 25. Saint Vincent Ferrer and Our Lady of Pity
  26. 26. Prophetic Vision
  27. 27. Returns to His Diocese
  28. 28. Devotion to The Sacred Heart
  29. 29. Apostle of Mary
  30. 30. True Devotion
  31. 31. Diocese of Nantes
  32. 32. Opposition by Jansenists
  33. 33. The Diocese of La Rochelle
  34. 34. Pastoral Work Continues
  35. 35. The De Montfort Fathers
  36. 36. The Daughters of Wisdom Again
  37. 37. A Lasting Impression
  38. 38. His Death Approaches
  39. 39. de Montfort’s Final Message
  40. 40. de Montfort Receives the Last Sacraments
  41. 41. He Dies, His Work Lives On
  42. 42. The Legion of Mary
  43. 43. Papal Commendation
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