Today we celebrate the memorial of Saint Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort.

Louis Grignion, who grew up in the nearby Breton village of Montfort, near Rennes, France, chose to use his baptismal location as his name when he became an adult. He received a Jesuit and Sulpician education before being ordained as a diocesan priest in 1700.

He soon started preaching in parishes across western France. He traveled and had a simple life for many years while serving the needy, which occasionally got him into controversy with church authorities. Father Louis advocated frequent, even daily, Holy Communion in his sermons, bringing thousands of people back to the faith then because it wasn’t customary.—as well as the continual submission to God’s will for Mary’s life.

In addition to establishing the Daughters of Wisdom, who specialize in providing care for the sick, Louis also formed the Missionaries of the Company of Mary, a group for priests and brothers. True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, one of his books, has become a standard primer on Marian’s devotion.

Source:franciscanmedia.org