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The saints

St. Louis de Montfort

The wandering preacher who taught people to give themselves to Jesus through Mary.

Feast: 28 April · 1673 to 1716 · Reformation and missions · Brittany and western France

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Engraving of St. Louis de Montfort teaching a group of children in a church.

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The villages of western France

Louis was a poor priest who spent his life preaching parish missions in the countryside of western France.1

Bishops kept throwing him out of their dioceses for being too unusual.1

So he went to Rome, and the pope named him a missionary apostolic and sent him back.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers him as a great preacher of total consecration to Jesus through Mary.

01St. Louis de Montfort

To Jesus through Mary

His book True Devotion to Mary taught a total consecration to Jesus through Mary, and many popes have practiced it.1

He also founded communities of priests and sisters and wrote hundreds of hymns.1

Live it this week

Start a consecration

Louis taught a 33-day consecration to Jesus through Mary. Find a consecration guide this week, pick a start date, and pray the first day.

Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

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