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the death of the Redeemer, since all have steeped their hands in his
blood, and since therefore the future Church could not be
represented but by culprits, does it not seem as though the Romans,
as early as the time of Calvary, were, though unconsciously,
inaugurating, substantiating, their immortal destiny?
The cross had been fixed in such a position that the back of Jesus
was turned upon Jerusalem, while his face was to the west, towards
the Eternal City.” (Bolo: Tragedy of Calvary)

APPENDIX 5

THE CONFRATERNITY OF MARY,
QUEEN OF ALL HEARTS
1. St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, in his Treatise on the True
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, expresses the desire that all
those who practise this devotion should be grouped together
into a Confraternity. This wish was realised in the year 1899,
when the Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts, was
established at Ottawa, Canada. It is under the care of the
Company of Mary or the Montfort Missionaries.
2. The Confraternity is composed of those faithful who
wish to live out their baptismal vows by means of a total
consecration to Christ by the hands of Mary, that is, by the
perfect practise of true devotion to Mary as taught by St. Louis
de Montfort and summed up by him in the following words:
“This devotion consists in giving oneself entirely to Mary
in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her. It requires us
to give:
(1) our body, with its senses and members;
(2) our soul with its faculties;
(3) our present material possessions and all we shall
acquire in the future;
(4) our interior and spiritual possessions, that is, our merits,
virtues and good actions of the past, the present and the
future.
In other words, we give her all we possess, both in our
natural life and in our spiritual life as well as everything we
shall acquire in the future in the order of nature, of grace and