Welcome, dear sons and dear daughters, who have flocked in large numbers to witness the glorification of Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, the humble Breton priest of the century of Louis XIV, whose short life, surprisingly laborious and fruitful, but singularly tormented, misunderstood by some, exalted by others, placed it before the world “as a sign of contradiction”, “in signum, cui contradicetur” (Luke 2, 34). Reforming, without thinking about it, the appreciation of his contemporaries, posterity has made him popular, but, above all the verdict of men, the supreme authority of the Church has just awarded him the honors of the saints.
Hello first to you, pilgrims of Brittany and the coast of the Ocean. You claim it as yours and it is yours indeed. Breton by birth and by the education of his adolescence, he remained Breton in heart and temperament in Paris, in Poitou and in Vendée; he will remain so everywhere and to the end, even in his missionary hymns, where by a pious industry - …More