Montfort was born in 1673 in Montfort-sur-Meu, the eldest surviving child of eighteen born to Jean-Baptiste and Jeanne … See more

Louis was ordained a priest in June 1700, and assigned to Nantes. His great desire had been the foreign missions, preferably in the new French colony of Canada, but his spiritual director advised against it. Letters of this perio… See more

Montfort left Nantes and the next several years were extraordinarily busy for him. He was constantly occupied in preaching missions, always walking between one and another. Yet he found time also to write his True Devoti… See more

• "God Alone" was the motto of Montfort and is repeated over 150 times in his writings.
• The Incarnation: "The Incarnation of the Word is for him the absolute central reality."
• Love of the Blessed Virgin Mary… See more

• Preparation for Total Consecration according to Saint Louis de Montfort
• Secret of the Rosary
• Letters of St. Louis Marie
• The Love of Eternal Wisdom… See more

While Montfort is best known for his spiritual writings, he was also a poet and during his missions managed to compose more than 20,000 verses of hymns. Montfort's hymns and canticles were, for the most p… See more

The congregations Montfort left behind, the Company of Mary, the Daughters of Wisdom, and the Brothers of Saint Gabriel (which congregation developed from a group of lay-brothers gathered around him), grew and s… See more