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1673–1716 France
Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, SMM (31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Catholic priest known for his influence on Catholic Mariology. He wrote a number of books that went on to become classic Catholic titles, including Secret of the Rosary and True Devotion to Mary, and influenced several popes.
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What Lucifer lost through pride, Mary gained through humility; what Eve damned and lost through disobedience, Mary saved through obedience.
As a reward for her profound humility, God gave her the power and commission to fill with saints the empty thrones from which the rebellious angels fell out of pride.
It is better not to burden oneself with so many prayers and practices of devotion, and to do so few with love and fidelity, despite the world, the devil and the flesh.
Jesus Christ gave more glory to God the Father by submission to his Mother for thirty years than he would have given him by converting the whole world by working the greatest wonders.
Mary, being all transformed into God by the grace and glory that transforms all the saints into him, neither asks, nor wants, nor does anything that is contrary to the eternal and immutable will of God.
If, then, as is certain, the knowledge and kingdom of Jesus Christ are to come into the world, this will be necessary as a consequence of the knowledge and kingdom of the most holy Virgin Mary, who brought him into the world the first time and will make him shine the second time.
When Mary has laid her roots in a soul, she produces wonders of grace in it that she alone can produce because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who has never had nor will ever have like her in purity and fruitfulness.
[Jesus] He began and continued his miracles through Mary; and he will continue them until the end of the ages through Mary.
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