For over a century, Saint Louis de Montfort’s masterpiece, the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, remained completely hidden and mysteriously concealed.
Although Saint Louis wrote the book in the early 1700s, it was only in 1842 that a librarian at the mother-house of the Montfort Fathers at Saint Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France, unearthed the manuscript.
Was “True Devotion to Mary” discovered by chance or Divine Providence?
It seems the latter.
Saint Louis himself foretold that his book would be exposed to vicious attacks and kept hidden by Satan, who would try to suppress any means of spreading the ‘true devotion’ to Our Lady.
Saint Louis de Montfort penned these prophetic words:“I clearly foresee that raging beasts will come in fury to tear to pieces with their diabolical teeth this little book and the one the Holy Spirit made use of to write it, or they will cause it at least to lie hidden in the darkness and silence of a chest and so prevent it from seeing the light of day.“They will even attack and persecute those who read it and put into practice what it contains. But no matter! So much the better!“It even gives me encouragement to hope for great success at
