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CURRICULUM VITAE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He was born in Montfort, a village in Brittany. He became a priest in Paris. He taught people about the path to holiness and to Jesus through Mary. Pope Clement XI appointed him as the Apostolic Missionary of France. He played a key role in establishing the Congregation of the Daughters of Wisdom and founded a male religious community that would later become known as the Montfort Society of Mary. Following a demanding ministry, he passed away at the age of 43.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

His Marian writings contain prophecies about the end times of the Church<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

CV FOR MEDITATION<\/span><\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER OF THE SAFE PATH TO JESUS<\/span><\/h2>\n

He was born on January 31, 1673, in western France, where he was baptized in Montfort, 20 km east of Rennes. His father was a notary, temperamental and violent. After about two years, their family moved a few kilometers away to their farm, Bois-Marquer, belonging to the municipality of Iffendic. Louis was the second of 18 siblings, eight of whom died early.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From the age of 11, Louis was at the Jesuit college of St. Thomas Becket in Rennes, where 2,000 young men studied. There, he became friends with Claude Poullart, later founder of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit, and with Jean Baptiste Blain. In Rennes, Louis also had an uncle who was a priest, and he became his confidant. The Grignion family also moved to Rennes two years later.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Louis was intelligent, diligent, artistic, somewhat shy, and deeply religious. That was how his professors saw him. While praying in the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, he decided to become a priest. After eight years of study in Rennes, another eight years of theology awaited him in Paris.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

He said goodbye to his family and saw the crossing of the Cesson bridge as a symbolic entry into a new life, which he wanted to live in complete dependence on God’s Providence. He expressed his conviction of a loving Father by giving his luggage to the first beggar, all his money to people experiencing poverty, and reportedly exchanging clothes with another beggar. These were his first joyful steps in a consistent life according to the Gospel. He experienced happiness in trusting in God’s Providence and begged for food and shelter along the way. He felt his freedom in complete surrender to God’s Love, Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In Paris, he was housed with poor seminarians and attended lectures. He only entered the St. Sulpice Seminary after two years. The professors there recognized his talents and good qualities. His “weakness” was his love for people of low income and his desire to serve those on the fringes of society. He identified with the most neglected. He worked as a librarian at St. Sulpice and was an avid reader of books on Marian devotion. He greatly broadened his horizons by studying the spiritual writings of important figures, including the Church Fathers. He knew the Bible very well and used it a lot. He longed to be a missionary to the poor, whether in France or abroad. He decided to proclaim the good news of God’s love to the outcasts of human society, that Jesus loves them, and that Mary’s maternal care. His desire was for Jesus and his Mother to be loved by as many people as possible.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the age of 27, he celebrated his primogeniture in the church of St. Sulpice on June 5, 1700. His further priestly ministry, like his studies, lasted only 16 years. He initially worked among missionary groups and served in the almshouse in Poitiers and in the General Hospital in Paris.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

He wondered whether God was calling him to a mission elsewhere, and in 1706, he went to seek advice from Pope Clement XI. Noting the extraordinary gifts God had given Louis, the Pope rejected his offer of a distant mission. Instead, he appointed him an apostolic missionary and sent him back to his homeland, then overrun by Jansenism, to restore the Church there.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Louis de Montfort returned on foot to Poitiers and, in the power of the Spirit, preached the Gospel and taught about the baptismal consecration of the Eternal and Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ, Son of the Virgin Mary. In Poitiers, he also began to found, with Marie Louise Trichet, the female religious congregation of the Daughters of Wisdom. He made the blind woman superior.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Although influenced by the Jesuits and the Sulpicians, he entered the Third Order of St. Dominic in 1710. He organized two hundred missions and retreats in the western region of France. Some admired him, others rejected him. His lifestyle was considered undignified. He carried a Bible, a breviary, and notebooks in a bag over his shoulder. In some dioceses, the episcopal consistories did not even allow him to preach. When it was said that Louis de Montfort had many enemies, he replied that he knew no one but those who flattered him and spoke well of him, and that his best friends were those who caused him great crosses. It was probably not an isolated incident that he gently picked up a dying, dirty, sick beggar on the street, as in Dinan, and carried him to the nearest religious house, calling to the doorman: “Open to Jesus Christ!”<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

His sermons were filled with his own experiences of God’s love and Mary’s maternal care, and they brought thousands of souls to faith. He recommended daily Holy Communion and Marian devotion. He taught the path he himself had taken: “Through Mary to Jesus”. He taught that the more our soul is devoted to Mary, the more it also surrenders itself to Jesus Christ. He pointed out that in such a form of piety, one can see the perfect renewal of baptismal promises and commitments. In it, the believer surrenders himself to the Virgin Mary, so that through her he may belong completely to Christ. To the Virgin Mary because she was the most suitable way that Jesus himself chose to unite himself to us, and for him to receive us into himself. And Jesus is our goal. Through him and with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, who is called the Spouse of Mary, we encounter the Father. Mary thus introduces us to the Trinitarian mystery. As the Holy Father John Paul II, who belonged entirely to Mary, said: <\/span>“No intervention of Mary in the renewal of Christians takes place in competition with Christ, but comes from him and is at his service. I understood that I could not exclude the Mother of the Lord from my life without disregarding the will of the Triune God. The entire Christocentric and Marian spirituality taught by L. Montfort comes from the Trinity and is directed towards it.”<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n

With this teaching, Louis de Montfort successfully fought against Jansenism, which even the higher clergy had absorbed. His successes unleashed a storm of hell against him, and he overcame all adversities with patience, meekness, and humility, unafraid of public opinion. During the mission at Pontchateau, with the help of thousands of people, he built a hill and erected a Calvary on it to make it a place of pilgrimage. Before it was consecrated, the bishop ordered it to be demolished. Louis de Montfort replied to the thousands awaiting the consecration of Calvary: “We hoped to have a Calvary here, but let us build it in our hearts! There the Cross of Christ will stand better than in any other place.”<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 1713, he founded a second congregation, the “Missionaries of the Society of Mary”, a priestly society known as the Montfort Missionaries, which, after his death, became the “Montfort Society of Mary” (SMM). This society spread throughout the world. In 1715, he founded the “Teaching Order of the Brothers of St. Gabriel” to teach catechism to people with low incomes. Some mention is made of the care of the sick.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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