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Mary Stenson opens with reflections on Frank Duff’s prophetic vision — the founding meeting in September 1921 with fifteen women, a statue of the Immaculate Conception, flowers and candles, and Frank’s suggestion that this little group could go out into the whole world, at which everyone around the table laughed. She answers a listener question from Mary Rehill about the Legion on university campuses: she reports that Deus et Patria (the youth section) organises student nights and talks, while local curiae handle recruitment at specific campuses.

Frank Duff’s thought for the day leads into a reflection on Saint Hunna, the seventh-century “holy washer woman” of Strasbourg, patron of laundry workers. The programme features an extended excerpt from the Saint Martin magazine on Bl. Elizabeth Hesselblad, the Swedish nurse who discovered Catholicism in Roosevelt Hospital New York while tending an Irish woman with alcohol withdrawal, and eventually became a Bridgettine nun and foundress, beatified by John Paul II. The closing Frank Duff quotation on Our Lady’s “quasi-omnipotence” through congenial souls provides a stirring finish.

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