First Honorary Member of The Company of Mary

Because of all that has been related to you in the Pius XII Marian Award for 1965 citation, but preeminently because of your immense love for our holy founder, St. Louis de Montfort, and because of your fidelity to the teaching and propagating of St. Louis’ doctrines expounded in the supreme theological and Mariological work, “True Devotion to Jesus through Mary”, and because of your great love of the Society which St. Louis founded, we, the Montfort Fathers and Brothers, consider it a privilege to accord you, Frank Duff,  the distinction of being the first honorary member (lay or clerical) in its two hundred and sixty-year-old history, to be admitted to our Community, the Company of Mary of Montfort.

This honor entitles you, Frank Duff, to the right to place after your name the initials H.S.M.M. (Honorary Member of the Society of Mary of Montfort) and to receive all the spiritual benefits to which members of the Community are entitled by profession of public vows.

May Divine Wisdom guide you during many more years of grace that you may perfectly fulfill your Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary, and may the same grace be granted to your brothers in the Society of Mary of Montfort and to all members of the Legion of Mary throughout the world that, together, we may finally share life of eternal happiness with God, His Holy Mother, the Queen of All Hearts, and with all the heavenly court.

August 9, 1965

Signed:

• Very Rev. Cornelius Heiligers, S.M.M., Superior General
• Very Rev. Roger M. Charest, S.M.M., Provincial Superior
• Rev. Francis P. Tomai, S.M.M., Director, Consecration Center

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