This justly famous book by St. Louis de Montfort contains a profound teaching on how the regular meditation upon the Mysteries of Our Lord in the Holy Rosary has the power to mold us, through the intercession of Our Lady, into his likeness.

The famous journalist Eddie Doherty was a faithful Catholic and a man of ardent spirituality who found in the example and writings of St. Louis de Montfort a wealth of inspiration, insight and strength for his spiritual life. Convinced of the importance of bringing others to know this man whose life and teaching had influenced him so strongly so that they too might share in this same wealth, he undertook the project of utilizing his skills as an investigative journalist to produce a biography his patron. Doherty's treatment of the life of Fr. de Montfort is engaging, accurate and clearly presented, providing a solid introduction to the life of the Good Father from Montfort.

This book has been prepared by the Company of Mary, the religious community founded by St. Louis de Montfort himself, to serve as both an introduction to his spirituality of total consecration and as a guide for those who would prepare themselves to make his Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary. It is also the fruit of the same Act of Total Consecration lived out in years of missionary service to Our Lord and Our Lady in the Roman Catholic Church which the Company of Mary joyfully makes available to the people of God.

Montfort Publications welcomes this opportunity to introduce its readers to Frank Duff, the founder of the Legion of Mary and one of the 20th century's great Marian Apostles. Based on a close personal relationship spanning the last twenty years of Frank Duff's life and apostolate, the author, Fr. Robert Bradshaw, describes with a distinctively Irish warmth Frank Duff the man as he knew him. Having discovered and read True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary while still a young man, Frank Duff was to center his whole spirituality and apostolate around St. Louis de Montfort's own motto:  To Jesus through Mary.  It is our hope that Fr. Bradshaw's life of Frank Duff may lead its readers to a deeper and more generous personal commitment to Our Lord and his Church through Fr. de Montfort's way of doing all things in, through, with and for Our Lady.

Written in the year 1712 by St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is widely acknowledged as a classic of Spiritual writing. Laity in all parts of the world have found within its pages the secret to a thoroughly renewed and vigorous Christian life. Fr. de Montfort's masterpiece has lost nothing of its power and beauty with the passing of time and holds within its pages a rich spiritual treasure for the contemporary believer who is willing to enter into the Mystery of Jesus living in Mary and there to be formed by the Spirit of God into full maturity in Jesus Christ.

Written in the year 1712 by St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is widely acknowledged as a classic of Spiritual writing. Laity in all parts of the world have found within its pages the secret to a thoroughly renewed and vigorous Christian life. Fr. de Montfort's masterpiece has lost nothing of its power and beauty with the passing of time and holds within its pages a rich spiritual treasure for the contemporary believer who is willing to enter into the Mystery of Jesus living in Mary and there to be formed by the Spirit of God into full maturity in Jesus Christ.