It is my honoured charge, at the august direction of the Holy Father, to convey a message of greetings and encouragement to Legion of mary, founded some thirty years ago on the fertile soil of Catholic Ireland. His Holiness has followed with paternal interet over the years the progres of the legion as it swelled the army of the those devoted and stalwart clients of Mary who are combating the forces of evil in the world to-day; and He rejoices with you in now beholding the Legion's standart set up in the four corners of the globe.