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Alphonsus Lambe
The Servant of God,  Alphonsus Lambe,  (known as Alfie)  was  born   in  Tullamore,
Ireland on the feast of  St. John  the  Baptist,   Friday, 24th  June  1932,  during  the
International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.

Like St. John he was a precursor -the precursor of the Legion of  Mary,  which  Pope
Paul VI described as "the greatest movement which  has  been  established  for  the
good of souls since the era of the great religious orders".   After  spending  a  period
of  his youth in the novitiate of the Irish Christian Brothers, which  he  had  to  leave
because of delicate health, he found his vocation in  the  Legion  of  Mary,  and  was
appointed Envoy in 1953.  With Seamus Grace, he left for Bogota, Columbia on  the
feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 16th of  July.

God had bestowed on  him  great  natural  gifts,
a personality  which   attracted   souls   to   the
service and love of  God,  an  infectious  enthu-
siasm,  and  a  facility  for  learning  languages,
which enabled him to rapidly  attain  fluency  in
Spanish and Portuguese.

For almost  six  year  he   worked   ceaselessly
in promoting the Legion  of  Mary  in  Columbia,
Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay and Brazil.   After
a short  but  grave  illness  he  died  in  Buenos
Aires on the feast of  St. Agnes,  21st  January
1959.

During his years in South  America he set up a  great  number  of  branches  of  the
Legion of  Mary,  and  trained  a  multitude  in  the  apostolate  of  the  Legion.   His
devotion to Mary as outstanding, and in contacts  with  Legionaries  and  others  he
explained and urged the practice of the True Devotion to Our Lady.
Alphonsus Lambe


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Alphonsus "Alfie" Lambe
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