"At a time of economic recession, ruin and sadness, good news are precious. And evangelisation, with the good news it gives, is above all this". It was said in Dublin by card. Sean Brady, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, as he presented the publication of The Legion of Mary, "The new evangelisation, priests and lay people, the great challenge of the new millennium". In recalling the foundation of The Legion of Mary in 1921, that has spread all over the five continents in just a few decades, card. Brady pointed out "the great contribution it has offered to the world", especially "in helping people go back to the Church". "As you know he went on , the Catholic Church in Ireland has declared 2008 and half of 2009 ‘The Year of Vocation’, a subject that belongs to the broader challenge of this decade, which is listening to the Gospel again". Hence the reference to John Paul II, who loved to speak often of a "new evangelisation", a subject that "has always been the distinctive trait of the mission of The Legion of Mary". Then, the primate emphasised "the contribution given by Ireland, in various ages, to the Catholic Church" and recalled the 175 years of the Cathedral of the Assumption (diocese of Kildare and Leighlin), the college of which "has given the Church over 3 thousand priests".
