Apostle of Mary

“The love of Mary” said one of his fellow-missioners, “seemed to have been born with him.” And it is as the Apostle of Mary that he is mainly remembered, for we have seen the fruits of his treatise on “The True Devotion” in the miraculous growth of the Legion of Mary. This book, which de Montfort predicted would be “enveloped in the silence of a coffer” was not discovered until 1842, 126 years after his death. The “inspiration it has given to the Marian lay apostolate amply fulfills de Montfort’s prophecy that “in those latter times, God will raise up mighty saints, servants, slaves, and children of Mary . . . who shall kindle the fire of divine love everywhere . . . like sharp arrows in the hand of the powerful Mary to pierce her enemies.” (From “True Devotion” by Saint Louis de Montfort.)