Sometimes he would make an effigy of the devil and dress it up in the gaudy clothing of a society woman. To be fair, with all his passion, Abbé Louis could be shocking. He was especially shunned by those in thrall to Jansenism, who strongly suspected, or even heretically rejected, the beauty of the soul that falls in love with Mary and Jesus to save itself from damnation.
Though Louis de Montfort was beloved and successful in nearly every parish, his reputation as a startling and sensational preacher never left him.
Louis returned to his native land of Brittany in the northwest to lay the groundwork of his mission. The pope was favorably moved and sent him back to France with the title of apostolic missionary. So Louis went to Rome to appeal to Pope Clement XI. Under these disparagements, Louis turned to the streets to help the poor, but even there, his detractors influenced the Bishop of Poitiers to forbid Louis to evangelize. People wondered at his emphasis on angels and the indispensable role of the Blessed Virgin in the course of salvation, and they questioned the dramatic way in which he presented the Faith to simple folk. He was eventually forced to step away from his position in the hospital. Like so many reformers, Abbé Louis was blasted and blistered with criticism and mistrust. He also worked as a hospital chaplain during this time, and it was while tending to the sick and poor that he formed a holy order of reformation in this ministry-and a core of female followers, who would become the congregation of the Daughters of the Divine Wisdom. With his ordination in 1700, Louis carried out priestly duties in Nantes while training for mission work in France or the French colonies in the New World. He took his education with the Jesuits in Rennes and, inspired by the gallant history of the knight-priest Ignatius of Loyola, he went to Paris to pursue his own call to holy orders. Those who miss the man’s poetry will miss the man.īorn in 1673, Louis Marie Grignion led the charge of his eight siblings, of modest parentage and means, in the town of Montfort in the northwest of France.
But here is where the poetry of this knight lies.
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