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Hello, and welcome to Catholic Saints, the podcast about the lives of the saints and their legacy for the church and for us.

I'm Dr. Jessica Ewell, and I'm joined today by Dr. John Seahorn.

Welcome to the program. Thanks for coming.

Thanks so much for having me.

Can you tell us a little bit about your favorite course that you teach in the graduate school?

Oh, that's a tough one. So I've been a member of the faculty here since 2015. I've taught a variety of

courses. But I think my favorite has got to be the Gospels, right? The Gospels are the first fruits of all of sacred scripture.

There are principal witness to the life and teachings of our Lord. And of course, they're central

to our liturgy, to our worship, to our prayer. Every time I teach them, I see new things,

and it's such a joy to get to share those things with students. That's great. It sounds really, really exciting. Now today, we're going to be trying

something a little bit different on Catholic saints. One way that the saints help us is through

modeling a life of prayer that brought them closer to God. By learning from the ways they prayed,

we too can grow in our relationship

with God. During this episode, we're going to learn from St. Louis de Montfort. So let's go ahead and jump in.

But first, we're going to do a little bit of a recap about his life. There is another really wonderful

episode if you want to delve deeper into his life and legacy, if you want to go and give a

listen to that episode. So Dr. Seahorn, could you tell us a little bit about when St. Louis de

Montfort lived and some of the historical context? Sure, absolutely. So St. Louis de Montfort lived and some of the historical context.

Sure, absolutely. So St. Louis was born in Western France in 1673. He lived a relatively short but very full life. He went home to our Lord in 1716. And he's probably most famous today for his development and promotion of a devotion

of total consecration to Jesus through Mary.

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