Welcome to the Legion of Mary *****************************

The object of the Legion of Mary is the glory of God through the holiness of its members developed by prayer and active co-operation, under ecclesiastical guidance, in Mary's and the Church's work of crushing the head of the serpent and advancing the reign of Christ.

The spirit of the Legion of Mary is that of Mary herself. Especially does the Legion aspire after her profound humility, her perfect obedience, her angelical sweetness, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her altogether spotless purity, her heroic patience, her heavenly wisdom, her self-sacrificing courageous love of God, and above all her faith, that virtue which has in her alone been found in its utmost extent and never equalled. Inspired by this love and faith of Mary, her Legion essays any and every work and "complains not of impossibility, because it conceives that it may and can do all things." (Imitation of Christ, Book 3:5)

HISTORY

On September 7, 1921 Frank Duff founded the Legion of Mary in Dublin, Ireland. The Legion, which is to be found in over 168 countries, has in excess of 3 million active members and many more auxiliary (prayer) members. In 1917 he came to know the Treaties of St. Louis Marie de Montfort on the True Devotion of Jesus through Mary, a work which changed his life completely. In 1965 Pope Paul VI invited Frank Duff to attend the Second Vatican Council as a Lay Auditor (an honor by which the Pope recognised and affirmed Frank Duff''s enormous contributions to the lay apostolate), where he received a standing ovation from all the bishops in attendance at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.