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Week of January 20, 2003
Devout Legionaries practise a Christ-centred spirituality
The Legionaries of Christ was founded by Father Marcial Maciel, when he was still a seminarian in Mexico.
While at the seminary in Mexico City, he received an inspiration from God to found a new religious congregation. At the age of 20, on Jan. 3, 1941 he began the congregation with 13 adolescents at the house basement of one of his friends.
Two years after Maciel was ordained in 1944, he moved to Spain with the members of the congregation to provide adequate training for future missionary work.
The congregation continued to grow and in 1948, Pope Pius XII gave approval for the congregation.
The Legionaries serve the Church and others through schools, universities and centres to form the character and Christian virtue of families, youth, and married couples, as well as the Christian and humanitarian development of the poor.
They serve the local churches through catechesis, missions, media apostolates, and they offer diocesan priests ongoing formation courses in their dioceses.
The name Legionaries of Christ sums up a Christ-centred spirituality in which Jesus Christ is the centre, standard, and model of a Legionary's religious, priestly, and apostolic life.
Like other seminaries, formation for Legionaries are anchored on four important aspects: human, spiritual, pastoral and intellectual.
The Legionaries have over 550 priests and 2,500 seminarians worldwide.
For more information on the Legionaries: www.legionofchrist.org
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