“Our
Lady was always the Light of my life”
Excerpts
from the Sealed Testament of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, my Mother and
Lady. Amen.
I, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, legitimate son of Dr.
João Paulo Corrêa de Oliveira and of Dona Lucília Ribeiro Corrêa de Oliveira, both now deceased, a Brazilian,
native of this Capital of the State of São Paulo,
where I was born on December 13, 1908, single, a lawyer and university
professor, a resident in this same city, in full possession of my faculties,
freely and voluntarily resolve to make this testament, for the disposition of
my possessions after my death and for the recording of other final
determinations, in the following form:
I declare that I have lived and hope to die in the
Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Faith, which I hold with all the strength of
my soul. I cannot find sufficient words to thank Our Lady for the privilege of
having lived since my very first days and of dying, as I hope, in the
In the same manner, I thank Our Lady—without being
able to find adequate words—for the grace of having read and disseminated the Treatise of True Devotion to the Most Holy
Virgin, of St. Louis Marie Grignion of Montfort, and of having consecrated
myself to Her as Her perpetual slave. Our Lady was always
the Light of my life and from Her clemency I hope She
will continue to be my Light and my Help until the last moment of my existence.
Again I thank Our Lady—and with what emotion—for
having granted me to be born of Dona Lucília. I
revered and loved her to the utmost of my capacity and, after her death, not a
single day passed without my remembering her with unspeakable longings. Of her
soul I also ask that she assist me until my last moment with her ineffable
goodness. I hope to meet her in Heaven amidst the luminous cohort of souls who
most specially loved Our Lady.
I am fully conscious of having fulfilled my duty by
having founded and directed my glorious and dear TFP. In spirit, I kiss the
standard of the TFP that hangs in the
Room of the Reign of Mary. The spiritual link that unites me to each member
of the Brazilian TFP, as well as to those of the other TFPs, is such that it is
impossible to mention any one in particular to express to him my affection. I
ask Our Lady to bless each and every one of them. After death, I hope to be
near Her, praying for all of them, thus helping them
more efficaciously than in this earthly life.
I forgive with my whole soul those who have given me
cause for complaint....
I have no instructions to give for the eventuality of
my death; Our Lady will provide better than I. In any event, from the depth of
my soul and on my knees, I beseech each and every one to be completely devoted
to Our Lady all the days of their lives....
São
Paulo, January 10, 1978
Plinio
Corrêa de Oliveira
(Tradition, Family, Property – Magazine, November-December, 1995 – www.tfp.org)