• A LIVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

LETTER TO FRANK DUFF FROM THE BISHOPS JUNE 23 

LETTER TO FRANK DUFF FROM THE BISHOPS ON THE OCCASION OF 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LEGION OF MARY  AND BROTHER DUFF'S REPLY

FORWARD AND INTERVIEW 1  "QUESTIONS"

INTERVIEW 2   "ORIGINS"

INTERVIEW 3  "PRE HISTORY OF THE LEGION OF MARY"

INTERVIEW 4     "BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGION PART 1"

INTERVIEW 5   " BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGION PART 2"

INTERVIEW 6    "BENTLEY PLACE-PART 1"

INTERVIEW 7    "BENTLEY PLACE PART 2"

INTERVIEW 8   "EDEL QUINN"

THE DE MONTFORT WAY   BY FRANK DUFF

DEDICATION

To the Immaculate Ever -Virgin

Mother of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,

Queen of the Legion

and

to the more than 11,000,000 Legionaries who seek to

conquer the world for Christ through Mary by prayer

 and apostolic works enspired and enabled by their

consecration to Our Lady  :

"I am all Thine my Queen and my Mother

and all that I have is Thine."

 

MARIA LEGIONIS

DUBLIN-PHILADELPHIA-MANILA

1983

 

WRITINGS  ABOUT FRANK DUFF

  • DREAM WITH MARY"   Frank Duff's challenge to legionaries two weeks before he died.  "Pope John said something which was one of the most precious of all Frank Duffs memories; namely that the Legion of Mary presents the true face of the Catholic Church. Frank said that that phrase touches final heights and no more need be said, except to insist that Mary is the reason for all that has been achieved."Rev Francis Ripley  

  • Frank Duff and the Pioneers by Enda Dunleavy taken from Maria Legionis,June 1993

  • An exerpt from FRANK DUFF MISSIONARY   Fr..Patrick O'Connor St. Columban's Missionary Society "I remember telling a French priest about the essence of the Legion, emphasizing that it was not education or intelligence that counted as much as the complete giving of oneself to the service of Our Lady and leaving the rest in her hands. He came to me a week later and said: 'Last week, after what you said, I decided to test your theory. There is an old lady down at the gate of our mission compound. She has been there for forty years without coming to Mass. My predecessor tried, I tried, the Sisters have tried to get some response from her. Last week I assigned two of the most unlearned old ladies in our praesidium to go down and talk to her. I told them to go as envoys of Our Lady. After five minutes they were back in the church with her, all three on their knees, and this morning she went to Holy Communion for the first time in forty years.' That sort of thing happened time and time again and more than any thing else convinced Legion directors that Our Lady wanted to work through the ordinary person."

  • FRANK DUFF'S SEARCH FOR THE NEGLECTED AND REJECTED   Finola Kennedy Issue 364,vol.91,Winter 2002 STUDIES: AN IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW

  • LEGION OF MARY AS A PASTORAL TOOL  Rev Francis Peffley speaks to his fellow priests  "I whole-heartedly repeat what Fr. Bradshaw, who died a Legion priest in Siberia, proclaimed: "As a priest my life is full of joy, but as a Legion priest, my joy is indescribable."         

  • MY FRIEND FRANK DUFF by Rev. Msgr. Thomas B.Falls "At one of the early meetings ( Vatican 11) Cardinal Heenan of England, while he had the floor, announced to the 2300 bishops that they had the pleasure of having present the founder of the Legion  of Mary, Mr. Frank Duff. There was a standing ovation and while the bishops applauded. Frank Duff bowed his head and blushed. I know, I was there, just two rows in front of him, looking back to see him as I applauded with the rest. As a result of this introduction, each morning, before the Council started, there was a long line of bishops, mostly from missionary countries, lined up to talk with Frank."

IN MEMORIAM