Sunday Sermon, April 28th -- St Louis Marie de Montfort, Apostolic Preacher

Confessor, Marian devotee, and founder of the Sisters of Divine Wisdom, Louis Marie Grignion was born in Montfort, France, in 1673. Educated at Rennes, he was ordained there in 1700, becoming a chaplain in a hospital in Poitiers. His congregation, also called the Daughters of Divine Wisdom, started there. As his missions and sermons raised complaints, St Louis-Marie went to Rome, where Pope Clement XI appointed him as a missionary apostolic. St Louis-Marie is famous for fostering devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary. In 1715, he also founded the Missionaries of the Company of Mary. His "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin" remains popular. Only 43 years old, St Louis-Marie died in 1716 at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, while preaching a parish mission there. He was canonized in 1947.

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