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The Company of Mary has one residence in Austria (Salzburg), staffed from the German Vice-Province. It is here that the German language Montfortian review, "Mutter der Kirche", is produced.
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The Belgian Vice-Province of the Company of Mary was formed in the 1960s from the Dutch Province. Its principal ministries today are the Marian Apostolate and the Apostolate of Pilgrimages. The Vice-Province produces a Marian review in both French and Flemish (Dutch), and organises many pilgrimages, both to the Holy Land and to Marian shrines around Europe. Members of the Vice-Province also work in a number of parishes. The Vice-Province is responsible for a small Mission in the Congo (Democratic Republic).
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In the last 20 years, a few Croatians have joined the Company of Mary, and there is one residence in Croatia, in the capital, Zagreb.
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For nearly 100 years (1901-1993), the Dutch Province staffed six parishes on the Island of Sjælland in Denmark. Unfortunately the last missionary there died in 2000, and so the Company of Mary no longer has a residence there. However there is still a Montfortian presence in Denmark, in the shape of the Montfort-Community - with links to the German Vice-province - which takes care of about four of the six former Montfortian parishes, and a group of Montfortian Associates ("Mary, Queen of all Hearts"). They have a web site: www.montfort.ninja.dk.
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Until the latter part of the 19th century, the members of the Company of Mary did not leave France, but worked continually in the apostolate of giving Parish Missions, mainly in the West of France. Today, many of the French priests and brothers are elderly, and the itinerant preaching of missions is much reduced. Many of the priests, however, serve in parishes, particularly where there are serious shortages of priests. One of the major forms of apostolate today is the annual Montfortian Pilgrimage to Lourdes, which involves a year-round preparation, not only of the practical logistics of such a large pilgrimage, but of the spiritual and devotional aspects of the event. There is a vast network of lay-members of the "Hospitalité Montfortain", who are provided with spiritual guidance by a team of Montfort Missionaries. France still has a number of members also working in the foreign mission field, principally in Madagascar and Haiti. There is also a community of priests in the Island of Réunion. The Province produces a monthly Montfortian review, Le Règne de Jésus par Marie.
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The Vice-Province of Germany is a small one, whose members work in parishes and in teaching posts, as well as in the support of various missionary ventures through the Mission Procure. The Province produces a Marian review, "Mutter der Kirche" (Mother of the Church), which has many thousands of subscribers.
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Great Britain and Ireland form one Province of the Company of Mary, with residences in England, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. Members of the Congregation first came to England in 1891 as a result of the anti-religious laws framed by the Third French Republic. In 1910, as a result of the same laws, a Junior Seminary or Apostolic School was opened at Romsey in Hampshire. With the outbreak of the Second World War, a structure independent of the French Province had to be created, and the Province of Great Britain & Ireland came into being. A first residence was opened in Scotland in the 1960s, and shortly afterwards the first house in Ireland was bought. Today some members of the Province are involved from time to time in preaching Missions and retreats; but there are also a number of Montfortian Pastoral and Retreat Centres, where Montfortian Spirituality is offered to all who are interested. Some of the members of the Province are working in parishes, often in deprived areas, while a few others continue to serve the young churches in Africa and Asia.
The Province of Great Britain & Ireland has its own homepage, which offers further information.
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For many years, the Dutch Province of the Company of Mary provided almost all of the very small number of Catholic priests in Iceland, serving the small number of Catholics there. Today there remains only one, in Reykjavik.
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The General House of the Company of Mary is located, like those of many other Congregations, in Rome. But there also exists in Italy the largest province of the Company of Mary, with residences in many parts of the country. A wide variety of apostolates is carried out in the Province, including the publishing of a number of Marian and Missionary reviews and other works, the preaching of missions in the parishes, and the care of a number of parishes. Many members of the Province work in the Foreign Mission field, principally in Malawi (the Diocese of Mangochi), Peru and Madagascar.
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The Dutch Province of the Company of Mary is one of the largest in the Congregation. Members of the congregation first went there in about 1886 to found a novitiate and seminary, when conditions in France made it impossible to continue with these in France itself. The Province became the most active in the foreign mission field, with missionaries sent to Mozambique, Malawi, Colombia, Haiti, and Indonesia. Today it is an ageing Province, and many of the missionaries have returned home to semi-retirement in parishes and other residences. But there are still a number who work in the foreign missions, principally in Indonesia and Malawi.
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Portugal is a General Delegation of the Montfort Missionaries, depending on the General Administration. Begun by the Dutch Province, it now numbers 15 or 16 Portuguese members. It has residences in Lisbon, Fatima (close to the Marian shrine), Castro Verde and Junqueira. Members work in parishes and various other apostolates.
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A few members of the Company of Mary work in Spain, principally from the French Province. A few Spanish members of the Congregation have been professed and ordained, most of whom now work in the missions in Ecuador. There is a Montfortian Web site (in Spanish) at "Los Monfortianos en España".
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