A History of the Works
of the Community
of the Lady
of All Peoples

September 14. Birth and Baptism of Marie-Paule in Lac-Etchemin, the eldest of a family of ten children.

September 14. At the age of twelve, Marie-Paule offers herself up as a victim for souls. Shortly afterwards she “hears” an interior voice for the first time. Over the years, her desire for a life in religion as a missionary in Africa intensifies, but during a retreat in 1937, a retreat master directs her towards marriage.

July 1. Marie-Paule marries Georges Cliche, in Sainte-Germaine-du-Lac-Etchemin. The new spouses will live in Saint-Georges de Beauce. They will have five children.

April 30. Birth of André.

August 25. Birth of Louise.

October 25. Birth of Michèle.

September 4. Birth of Pierre.

July 1. After seven years of serious conjugal difficulties, the Lord says to her, “IF THIS WERE EVEN THE HALF OF IT, MY CHILD... IT WILL ALL TERMINATE IN COURT.”

April 22. Birth of Danielle.

Marie-Paule hears interiorly for the first time: “THE ARMY OF MARY”.

For a long time the Lord has been telling Marie-Paule: “ONE DAY YOUR LIFE WILL BE WRITTEN. IT WILL BE ENTITLED ‘LIFE OF LOVE’.”

September. After thirteen years of marriage and in order to protect the children, separation takes place as ordered by Marie-Paule’s spiritual director, her doctor, the curate of the parish of Saint-Georges-Est, in Beauce, and the director of Social Services. After three days of refusing, Marie-Paule finally consents to the children being placed in a boarding school, while she goes to live with her mother in Lac-Etchemin.

February. Marie-Paule receives the order from her spiritual director to write her life.

From April 20 to 27. During a week Mary gives a course in spirituality to Marie-Paule. Mary first shows her the image of a possible event; then she manifests the wish, and finally gives Marie-Paule the command to act.

April 28. The Lord announces to Marie-Paule “THE HOUR OF THE CRUCIFIXION”, adding, “IT WILL BE THOSE OF MY PRIESTHOOD WHO WILL CRUCIFY YOU.”

May 1 to 7. Marie-Paule “receives” details of the mission being entrusted to her. The Lord indicates to her on May 4: “You know, my child, that my beloved Mother lived on earth and that she ascended into heaven without dying! I must tell you, today, that she has become incarnate, and her maternal regard has alighted upon you. It is you, my child, who suffer my Passion and who, in the name of my beloved Mother, will give Christ back to the world.”

September. Marie-Paule is in charge of the kitchen personnel at the house of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. Her three daughters will come to join her there, while the two boys are students at the Petit Séminaire in Quebec City. Then her husband will come there, but what a trial is awaiting them!

June 15. Marie-Paule and her family move to Quebec City.

Autumn. In accordance with providential events, a Marian Group takes form. Sisters of Charity of Quebec, including Sisters Jeanne d’Arc Demers, Sainte-Jacqueline and Marie-Stella, Sister Lise Giguère, Marie-Paule’s sister, from the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, two Camillian Fathers – Fathers Victor Rizzi and Denis Laprise – as well as some lay people make up this Marian Group.

August 28. Pilgrimage of the Marian Group to the shrine of Our Lady of Etchemin. This day opens the era of public Marian action. On the evening of this day the Lord informs Marie-Paule: “TODAY SAW THE FOUNDING OF THE ARMY OF MARY. PREPARE A LITTLE REVIEW THAT WILL BIND TOGETHER THE MEMBERS. THIS REVIEW WILL BEAR THE TITLE, ‘THE ARMY OF MARY’.”

September. First pilgrimage to Europe by 338 members of the Army of Mary.

March 10. Official recognition of the Army of Mary by Cardinal Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of the Church in Canada.

Decree of Official Recognition of the Army of Mary

The Battle

Once the Army of Mary had been raised, it worked in a positive manner, accomplishing good to combat evil. And that was done in harmony with local bishops. But then the fight intensified against the Army of Mary which would be recognized by this trait: its fidelity to Rome and the Pope. This fight was carried on by the very ones whose mission it is to safeguard true values.

Campaign of Defamation and the Devotion to the Lady of All Peoples

Confirmations and Support

While calumnies rain down upon the Army of Mary and its Foundress, mainly from several religious communities and the friends of a bishop (Bishop Lionel Audet) whom the Lord had identified as being the “enemy no. 1 of the Army of Mary”, the witness of certain mystics confirms Marie-Paule’s mission. We will only present three of them here:

• In 1973, during the first pilgrimage she made to Europe, Marie-Paule met a lady bearing the stigmata, Marthe Robin, at Châteauneuf-de-Galaure. Marthe said of Marie-Paule: “She’s totally lost in Mary, totally hidden in Mary,” and she encouraged her to carry on.
• Don Gobbi, the founder of the Marian Movement of Priests, received this message from Mary in May 1977, while he was on a visit to Quebec City: “I am here with you and I bless and press to my Heart Marie-Paule, that daughter of my maternal predilection whom I myself have chosen to bring about the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.... Bless again, with me, this city [Quebec], my city and your city, chosen by me as the dwelling place where your heavenly Mother is always present.” “But why do you say, ‘my city and your city’?” Don Gobbi asked. “Because I live there,” Mary replied.
• In September 1977, the Army of Mary was on pilgrimage in Amsterdam. On September 24, in the chapel of the Lady of All Peoples, Marie-Paule was sitting next to the seeress of the Lady, Ida Peerdeman. After Mass, in the presence of a small group of people including her spiritual director, Ida passed on a message she had received during Mass, a part of which concerns Marie-Paule: “Marie-Paule was seated beside me in the chapel; and it was as if a hand were point her out, and I heard: ‘She is the Handmaid.’ ” Then, turning to Marie-Paule, Ida completed the message received: “That is my order; she will have much strength.”

Over the years, Marie-Paule would receive help from enlightened and renowned spiritual directors, as well as from certain Vatican authorities.

Marie-Paule’s many charisms, the authenticity of which has incessantly been shown, are another confirmation of her mission. For example, countless cures have been obtained as a result of her intercession, at times when persons were on their deathbed, and many of those cures have been attested to by doctors.

June 4. The national feast day of the Army of Mary, with the Ark of the Covenant, in Notre-Dame Church, Montreal, marks “THE BEGINNING OF MARY’S TRIUMPH”.

October 1. At Lourdes, during a pilgrimage of the Army of Mary, Marie-Paule “receives” the order “ALWAYS TO WEAR THE LONG WHITE DRESS”.

May. It is the hour to make Life of Love known. Thirteen volumes [French ed.] were published in thirteen months. [These same volumes were published in English between 1979 and 1987.]

May 31. Founding of the Family and the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary at the International Center of the Army of Mary, in Quebec City. Marie-Paule takes the name, Mother Paul-Marie.

May 30. Eleventh pilgrimage to Europe, assembling at Lourdes about two thousand Army of Mary members from various countries.

January 1. His Excellency Archbishop Mario Peressin, Archbishop of L’Aquila, consents, at the Holy See’s request, to take the Community of the Sons of Mary and that of the Daughters of Mary under his protection.

May 25. First priestly ordination of a Son of Mary by Pope John Paul II, in Rome, Italy.

August 15. Founding of the Oblate-Patriots at the International Center of the Army of Mary.

December. Marie-Paule announces “The Year of the Crucifixion”, the title of her editorial published in the February 1987 issue of the paper Le Royaume.

April 15 (Wednesday of Holy Week). Marie-Paule receives from Cardinal Louis-Albert Vachon a letter summoning her to the office of the Archbishop of Quebec, along with the copy of a letter which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent to the Archbishop of Quebec, leaving Cardinal Vachon “completely free to take the measures [he] will deem necessary, without excluding the possibility of suppressing the Association ‘ad normam iuris’ ”. This is the first denial by the Church.

May 4. On the basis of false accusations, Cardinal Vachon revokes, by decree, the decree that had established the Army of Mary as a Pious Association. Authorities in Rome advise those in charge of the Army of Mary to present a recourse. The Secretariat of State directs this recourse to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

May 7. At a press conference held at the Center of the Immaculate in Quebec City, Marie-Paule and some members of the Army of Mary reply to questions raised by journalists from the various medias (radio, television and newspapers).

Press Conference

May 30. Nine Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, in L’Aquila, Italy.

First Denial by the Church

March 31 (Holy Thursday). Marie-Paule receives the decree of the preceding March 25 signed by the President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, ratifying the Archbishop of Quebec’s decision of May 4, 1987. This judgment constitutes the Church’s second denial of God’s Work.

“The Year of the Crucifixion”: a liturgical year has elapsed between the reception, on Wednesday of Holy Week, 1987, of the letter of Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the reception, on Holy Thursday 1988, of the letter of Cardinal Pironio (Pontifical Council for the Laity). Marie-Paule passes along another “indication”: “NOW WILL FOLLOW THE INDETERMINATE PERIOD OF THE IMMOLATION” (Le Royaume, Important Issue, April 8, 1988, p. 4 [French ed.]).

Given the irregularities vitiating the recent decree, a Vatican authority asks the Army of Mary to present a recourse to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome.

August 13. Three Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at L’Aquila, Italy.

Second Denial by the Church

March 17. The Supreme Tribunal rejects the recourse. This is the third denial of the Work of God by the Church. Upon the advice of Roman authorities, the Work will present a recourse to the College of Judges (Plenary) of the Supreme Tribunal.

October 7. Five Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at L’Aquila, Italy.

October 18. At the request of His Exc. Bishop Adolphe-Marie Hardy, Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis in France, the Community of the Sons of Mary opens a mission in that diocese.

Third Denial by the Church

January 4. His Exc. Bishop Joseph Molinari, Bishop of Rieti, receives the Sons and Daughters of Mary into his diocese.

September 8. A Son of Mary is ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at Lourdes in France.

April 20. The Plenary rejects the case in appeal by a Definitive Decree. Thus does the Church’s judgment confirm the Lord’s words in 1951: “IT WILL ALL TERMINATE IN COURT.” In fact, 33 years, to the day, separate the announcement of the sorrowful mission (April 28, 1958) and the end of that mission by the Church’s verdict: Redemption: 33 years – Co-Redemption: 33 years.

June 9. Marie-Paule’s soul penetrates the Living Light that is God Light.

June 22. Marie-Paule “receives” the explanation of the above grace revealing the meaning of the word “reincarnation”.

September 12. Three Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at L’Aquila, Italy.

Ten years after the founding of the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary, the men’s branch numbers 66 Sons of Mary (24 priests, 42 Brothers); the women’s branch numbers 69 Daughters of Mary.

Definitive Decree

February. At the request of His Exc. Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, Apostolic Vicar of Mandeville, in Jamaica, the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary opens a mission in Jamaica.

May 27. In spite of the battle being waged against the Army of Mary by certain religious authorities, Pope John Paul II addresses a word of encouragement to the thousand pilgrims of this Work attending the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Here is the translation of that message delivered in Italian in deference to our Protector Bishops who are Italian: “I now address a word of welcome to the large international group of the ‘Army of Mary’, which in this month of May, is following an intense itinerary in visiting a number of Italian Marian shrines. Let yourselves always be formed by the Mother of the Lord, the pilgrim of faith and hope. Take back to your countries the spiritual treasure you have acquired during these days.”

May 28. Four Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at San Gabriele dell’Addolorata in Italy.

May 31. The founding of the Marialys Institute at Rieti in Italy, during an Army of Mary pilgrimage in honor of the Co-Redemptrix.

August 18. The Sons of Mary open a mission in Kötschach, at the request of His Exc. Bishop Egon Kappellari, Bishop of Gurk in Austria.

September 16. Six Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at Noyon in France.

October 10. His Exc. Bishop Eugène P. LaRocque, Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall in Ontario, requests the services of the Daughters of Mary for the Bishop’s House.

May 31. One Son of Mary is ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Archbishop Peressin, at Klagenfurt in Austria.

January. His Exc. Bishop LaRocque welcomes the Sons of Mary into his diocese.

May 31. His Exc. Bishop Bomers, Bishop of Haarlem in the Netherlands, authorizes public devotion to the Lady of All Peoples, as well as the recitation of her prayer in the Church.

June 23. Four Sons of Mary are ordained to the priesthood by His Exc. Bishop LaRocque, with the permission and in the presence of His Exc. Bishop Boyle, at Cornwall in Ontario, Canada.

July. The Daughters of Mary open a novitiate in Green Valley, Ontario.

April 1. Georges Cliche, Marie-Paule’s husband, dies. Georges’ passing frees Mother Paul-Marie from all bonds, allowing her to fulfill the desire she had in her youth of becoming a religious.

April 23. Mother Paul-Marie is unanimously elected Superior General of the Daughters of Mary. Shortly thereafter, events become clearer and the “Community of the Lady of All Peoples” begins to take shape.

May 31. Pentecost. Solemn ceremony in honor of the Holy Spirit and the Lady of All Peoples.

Reception of three Presidents for the Community of the Lady: Beatrice de la Tourrasse, President for Europe (Euro-national); Thérèse Buyse, President for Belgium; Madeleine Falaha, President for Chile.

The Community members take their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience within the Community of the Lady of All Peoples.

March 25. Inauguration of the Eucharistic and Marian Center Spiri-Maria at Lac-Etchemin, which becomes a place of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and a house for spiritual retreats. It also becomes the International Center of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples and the five Works it encompasses (the Army of Mary, the Family and the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary, the Oblate-Patriots and the Marialys Institute).

April 12. Note of a disciplinary nature from the Archbishop of Quebec, His Excellency Maurice Couture “regarding the setting up of the Spiri Maria Residence”, in which the Archbishop reproaches the Foundress, Mother Paul-Marie, with having had Spiri-Maria built without the permission of the local Ordinary (the Archbishop of Quebec). On April 17, Mother Paul-Marie replied to Archbishop Couture. While raising certain points in the Archbishop’s letter, she emphasized, among other things, that according to canon 1752 of the Code of Canon Law, one must “keep in mind the salvation of souls, which in the Church must always be the supreme law”. (These two letters are published in the paper Le Royaume [“The Kingdom”], no. 140, Special Issue of May 13, 2000, pp. 8-9.) Then a theologian wrote to the Foundress on this same subject on December 11, 2002, to give his opinion. He demonstrated, based on the Code of Canon Law, that the Army of Mary did not need to seek authorization before building the Eucharistic and Marian Center Spiri-Maria. (This letter is published in the paper Le Royaume [“The Kingdom”], no. 158, November-December 2002, pp. 25-26.)

May 15. The Archdiocese of Quebec’s diocesan review Pastorale Québec published the Disciplinary Note of April 12, regarding the Army of Mary, as well as a report Archbishop Couture had requested a committee prepare on the Work, although the committee never met the Work’s directors. Once again, the Army of Mary was judged without it having been given the opportunity to present its version of the facts, which are quite different from those presented in the report, the falseness of which would be shown.

May 23. Archbishop Couture gave a press conference on the subject of the Army of Mary, reproaching it “its way of promoting Marian devotion”. On the other hand, he declared: “We must acknowledge that when one looks at the fundamental principles of the Army of Mary, it is very Catholic: devotion to the Holy Father, devotion to the Eucharist and a Marian devotion. There is nothing more Catholic than that and I am in complete agreement with that.”

July 8. A Quebec bishop who wished to remain anonymous sent a letter to his confreres in the episcopate and addressed a copy to Mother Paul-Marie. In his letter, he reproached the bishops of not recognizing in the Army of Mary “the work of God Himself”, declaring: “But how is it that bishops and archbishops, cardinals even, are fooled in such a manner by the Spirit of Darkness? For, in my estimation, there is no way of describing this in other terms. The reason for this, I will give it to you, here and now: THE REFUSAL OF THE SUPERNATURAL.” (This letter is published in the paper Le Royaume [“The Kingdom”], no. 144, July-August 2000, pp. 15-17.)

August 15. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) spread through Internet a Doctrinal Note on the Army of Mary which it accuses of spreading doctrinal errors. The falseness of this document is shown by the many members of the Army of Mary who come to the defence of the Work unjustly treated.

Response to the Doctrinal Note on the Army of Mary

Marie-Paule, who had noticed that every blow against the Marian Work brought about disastrous consequences for the world, warned her immediate collaborators: “Carefully watch the world events that will now follow.” And in fact, less than a month later the world was horrified.

September 11. Terrorist attack against the World Trade Center in New York. Now, that event had been shown Marie-Paule by Heaven at the beginning of the 1980s. At that time, struck by the extent of this announced catastrophe, she had informed the members, during a meeting of the Army of Mary in Montreal, of what she had seen: “a thick smoke streaming from the top part of high buildings in New York, followed by their collapse into the depths of the ground.”

January 1. The launching of Radio Love, radio broadcasts on Internet, presenting various religious activities of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples.

May 28 to 30. Triduum at the Eucharistic and Marian Center Spiri-Maria. The appointment of six Knights of the Lady, three of whom succeed the Presidents of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples, within a redefined framework. Those appointed were: François Pillot from France, Paul Schulte from Holland, Jean Van Renterghem from Belgium, as well as Grégoire Giguère and Donald Aubin from Canada and Marcel Laprise from the United States.

April 4. Pastoral Message from Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec, regarding the Army of Mary which, according to him, is spreading “doctrines that are absolutely alien to the Bible, the teachings of the Popes and Vatican II”. More than that, Cardinal Ouellet “reiterates the rightfulness of the Doctrinal Note published by the Canadian Bishops on August 15, 2001” [a Doctrinal Note, the many errors of which were set out in the Marian Work’s publications]. The Army of Mary’s viewpoint is presented in the paper Le Royaume [“The Kingdom”], no. 172, March-April 2005.

Pastoral Message on the Army of Mary

Our Response to the Pastoral Message by Sylvie Payeur Raynauld

Father Pierre Mastropietro’s Letter

Cardinal Ouellet joined with the Pontifical Commissioner appointed for the Sons of Mary (the Roman Congregation that appointed this Commissioner did not inform the Sons of Mary of the reasons justifying such an appointment – are there really reasons?). On this same date of April 4, 2005, this Commissioner, His Exc. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, Archbishop of Halifax, sent a letter to the Sons of Mary setting out certain demands and prohibitions that are incompatible with the charism of this young Community.

Letter from the Pontifical Commissioner, His Exc. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, to the Sons of Mary

Father Pierre Mastropietro’s Reply

Sylvie Payeur Raynauld’s Thoughts

Given the battle being waged against them, the majority of the Sons of Mary exercising a ministry abroad and in other Canadian provinces (Ontario and Nova Scotia) must terminate their parochial ministry and return to Quebec. This gives them an opportunity to return to the source and to do apostolate among the Work’s members. They are still present in France and in the United States, dedicating themselves to the members of the Work in those countries.

In Quebec, the prohibitions rain down upon the Sons of Mary: the religious authority wants to forbid them from presiding over the marriage ceremony of relatives, administering Baptism, etc. Heaven intervenes and the first Baptism is celebrated at Spiri-Maria on January 1, 2006, followed by the first marriage in June of that same year.

August 10. The Marian Work is always guided by Heaven as it informs Marie-Paule and gives her orders on what is to be done. So it was that a special ceremony was planned at Spiri-Maria on the theme “Towards the Church of John”, that is to say, the renewed Church of Peter, which does not reject any of the teachings of the Catholic Church, but which accepts, besides, the mystery of the Co-Redemption. “YOU ARE NOW FREE,” the Lord indicates.

September 17. Ceremony of enthronement of the Head of the Church of John, Padre Jean-Pierre (Father Pierre Mastropietro), at Spiri-Maria.

September 28. Indication received from On-High by Marie-Paule: “HERE, ON EARTH [AT SPIRI-MARIA], IT WILL BE THE HEART OF THE FATHER’S HEART IN THE CHURCH OF JOHN.” For more than a year now, Marie-Paule has been favored with ineffable graces leading her all the way to the Heart of the Father’s Heart (graces recounted in the White Books).

January 7. Padre Jean-Pierre proceeds with the diaconal ordination of 5 Sons of Mary.

May 31. The official founding of the Church of John, the renewed Church of Peter, takes place at Spiri-Maria, with Padre Jean-Pierre becoming its Head on that day. His first gesture is the promulgation of the dogma of Mary Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate in the presence of Marie-Paule who, in much suffering, complies with the demands of Heaven by dressing as the Lady of All Peoples in Amsterdam – the sign that Marie-Paule is “actualizing” the mission of Co-Redemptrix announced by the Lady in Amsterdam, since she has been chosen by Mary for this role.

June 1. Padre Jean-Pierre ordains 6 Sons of Mary to the priesthood at Spiri-Maria.

June 3. The canonization of Raoul Auclair, an eschatological and Marian writer, at the end of four consecutive days of prayer at Spiri-Maria. The program for those days having been indicated by Heaven, we simply obeyed.

September 10. His Exc. Archbishop Prendergast gives Father Eric Roy a photocopy of a document dated July 19, 2007, in which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith excommunicates the Army of Mary, its affiliated Works and its members. Two days later, the document was made public on the web site of the CCCB.

The Army of Mary Is Excommunicated

Press Release from the Army of Mary

Catholicism and Truth

Le Royaume [“The Kingdom”], no. 187, September-October 2007

Marie-Paule would write later: “We must go forward, whereas the adversaries who were the post-Conciliar progressives are now those who are stubbornly clinging to the past and not opening themselves to the celestial realities being offered to the Church of Peter, continuing to be, instead, our implacable adversaries.” (White Book IV, p. 51)

February 11. Father Eric Roy is appointed Superior General of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples, appointment to go into effect on May 31, 2008.

May 31. In 1957, the Lord had indicated to Marie-Paule; “YOU MUST SUFFER MUCH TO BECOME SOVEREIGN OF THE EARTH ONE DAY.” The divine designs are becoming clearer. On the first day of a triduum at Spiri-Maria, Mother Paul-Marie has to don a royal attire in order to mark the realization of that prediction. Now, it must be specified that, always according to the indications from Heaven, this title, as well as all the others which have been conferred upon the Handmaid, “apply to our time, to this land that belongs to the Heart of the Father’s Heart... in this time of the Kingdom.”

Marie-Paule also appoints 12 new apostles. And on June 1, the last day of the triduum, Padre Jean-Pierre proceeds with the canonization of Father Philippe Roy, the Work’s first Marian Father.

February 2. The formation of the General Council of the Lady and its secretariat. The President of that Council is Mrs. Charlotte Beaulieu Bélanger, International Animator of the Army of Mary and International Mother of the Family of the Sons and Daughters of Mary. The other members of the Council are: Mr. André Bélanger, accountant, for financial matters, and Mrs. Michelle Laprise, Vice-President, and responsible for the general secretariat. The General Council will collaborate with Father Eric Roy, the Superior General of the Community of the Lady of All Peoples.

May 31. On the last day of the triduum which coincides with the feast of Pentecost, several testimonials are given attesting to cures obtained by the intermediacy of Marie-Paule. By means of an audio cassette, we also listen to the testimonial given by Georges, Marie-Paule’s husband, in 1975, in which he acknowledges “the terrible life” he led and the sufferings he caused his wife who always showed him an exemplary charity and to whom he attributes the merit of his return to God.

“I WILL GIVE PROOF OF YOUR INNOCENCE,” the Lord had said to Marie-Paule in 1958, and those testimonials are an obvious proof of the innocence of that soul which, in all things, has sought only the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

On that May 31, in order to respect the divine plan, Marie-Paule had to don, once again, a royal attire and wear a crown which symbolizes the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary announced at Fatima. And she had to assist at her own canonization which Heaven had announced in 1956: “One day saints will be canonized while they are still living, and you will be the first.”

The divine demands have serious repercussions on her health. “I went to the utmost limit of my strength,” she declared, as she withdraws more and more.

Moreover, on May 31, Paul Schulte, a person in charge of our Works in the Netherlands, became the founding President of the family of Paulians, named after his patron saint, Saint Paul.

September 13. On the last day of a triduum in honor of the Triumph of the Cross, a special ceremony is intended as a homage to Mother Paul-Marie who will be 88 years old the next day, Monday, September 14, 2009, At the end of that homage, at Heaven’s request, a picture of Mother Paul-Marie is unveiled next to the statue of the Lady of All Peoples, a picture which is to remain there “for ever, until the end”. So it is that another message of the Lady given in Amsterdam was confirmed: “The altar of the Lady represents me in the manner in which I shall come.” And to Ida, the Lady declares: “You do not see the existing painting [which represents me in the manner in which I shall come].” (52nd apparition, May 31, 1956)

As for Marie-Paule, she continues to say that she is only “the zero”, “the nothing” who left all the room to Mary. (It is this keen awareness of her nothingness that causes her to suffer so much when she must occupy a prominent place.) She declares: “Mary has been the master craftsman, I only obeyed.” However, Heaven has given this heroic obedience a value of eternity.

May 29. On this first day of the triduum at Spiri-Maria, Paul Schulte received 33 members in charge of the family of Paulians for Canada and the United States. They join the two who were appointed in Europe (in France and the French-speaking part of Belgium).

May 31. Padre Jean-Pierre promulgated a decree recognizing Marie-Paule as Doctor of the Church, in recognition of the spiritual content of Life of Love.

On that day, in Mother Paul-Marie’s name, Padre Jean-Pierre crowned Marc Bosquart as “Church King” under the name Marc-André I. The Terrestrial Kingdom won by the Co-Redemptrix is slowly taking shape before our eyes, as providential events take place and as the indications from Heaven are faithfully followed, for the Lord continues to speak to humanity through the intermediary of those He has chosen. And, in His desire to save humanity, He wishes to be all the closer to us, given the perilous situation prevailing in so many parts of the planet.

After the coronation ceremony, Marc-André I performed his first official act by declaring “Marie-Paule, Mother of the Kingdom”.