The Crusade of Mary Immaculate is a movement founded by St Maximilian Kolbe in 1917, a Franciscan priest who gave his life for a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. The Crusade – or the Knights of Mary Immaculate (in Latin, Militia Immaculatae - MI) - exists to spread the Good News by dedication to Mary Immaculate. St Maximilian wanted to gain the whole world for Jesus through Mary Immaculate and promoted personal consecration to Her.
The Crusade of Mary Immaculate is all over the world, and also here, in the UK, with the centre based in Manchester. It encourages total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The movement is open to all Catholics. It is really consecration to Jesus. The MI’s mission is "To Lead Every Individual with Mary to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus”. By joining the MI, members become willing instruments of Our Lady. With Mary's help everything is possible. People who have turned away from God or do not believe in Him may be brought to Him through the powerful intercession of Mary Immaculate and a personal act of consecration of Her knights.
This is how St Maximilian recollects the beginnings of the MI: "I remember when, as a boy, I bought myself a figurine of the Immaculata for five kopecks. I always loved the Immaculata. Later on, in the Franciscan Minor Seminary in Lwow, where we heard Holy Mass in the choir, I prostrated myself on the floor before the altar, and promised that I would fight for Her. How I would do this I did not know at the time, but I visualized fighting with material weapons".
The Crusade of Mary Immaculate is all over the world, and also here, in the UK, with the centre based in Manchester. It encourages total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The movement is open to all Catholics. It is really consecration to Jesus. The MI’s mission is "To Lead Every Individual with Mary to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus”. By joining the MI, members become willing instruments of Our Lady. With Mary's help everything is possible. People who have turned away from God or do not believe in Him may be brought to Him through the powerful intercession of Mary Immaculate and a personal act of consecration of Her knights.
This is how St Maximilian recollects the beginnings of the MI: "I remember when, as a boy, I bought myself a figurine of the Immaculata for five kopecks. I always loved the Immaculata. Later on, in the Franciscan Minor Seminary in Lwow, where we heard Holy Mass in the choir, I prostrated myself on the floor before the altar, and promised that I would fight for Her. How I would do this I did not know at the time, but I visualized fighting with material weapons".
"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION"
Mary to Bernadette at Lourdes