April
22 – Discovery of the Treatise of True Devotion to the Virgin Mary of
Saint Louis de Monfort in 1842 “inside a chest,” as the saint had
prophesied
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The
manuscript of the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin was
found buried in a field in 1842. It had been hidden there since the
French Revolution, "in the darkness and silence of a chest" as its
author Saint Louis de Montfort had himself prophesied (No. 114). The
Treatise is his most universally known writing, available in more than
300 editions and published in thirty languages.
Saint
Louis de Montfort points out Mary’s essential role in God's plan and in
guiding souls on the difficult path to holiness. The three Persons of
the Trinity continue to work the same wonders started at Creation and
the Incarnation through the Virgin. If we seek to fully engage ourselves
in the service of God and achieve union with Christ the Savior by
imitating Mary’s humility, the surest way is to devote ourselves
completely to Him through her hands. "True God and true man, our unique
all... He must be the ultimate end of all our other devotions."(No. 61)
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