St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort was a true prophet and missionary. At a time when many illustrious spirits felt entirely at ease about the situation of the Church – lulled by a neglectful, tepid and systematic optimism – he, with the eye of an eagle, probed the depths of the present and predicted a future religious crisis, in terms that bring to mind the calamities that the Church suffered during the French Revolution.
As a missionary, he relentlessly reprehended the neo-pagan spirit, doing everything in his power to guard the faithful people from worldliness and from all that was marked with the evil spirit born of the Renaissance.
If St. Louis Grignion had extended his missionary activity to all of France, it is likely that the history of that country and of the world would have been different.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
