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Alfie Lambe, in full Alphonsus Lambe (Tullamore, Ireland, 24 June 1932 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 January 1959), was an Irish-born Roman Catholic lay-missionary and envoy of the Legion of Mary to South America.
Frank Duff chose Alfie to become the Legion's envoy to South America. He left Ireland on 16 July 1953 accompanied by Seamus Grace, on their way to Bogota. He went to serve in Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, as well as Argentina, where he died in Buenos Aires at age 26 from stomach cancer. He is interred in the vault of the Irish Christian Brothers, in Buenos Aires's Recoleta Cemetery. It is said that his missionary work for the Legion of Mary was greatly helped by his ability to learn languages as he quickly became fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese. He was kidnapped, briefly, but his captors granted him a phone call to prove who he was so he called the Irish Ambassador to vouch for him and this resulted in his release. While in Argentina he also learned Russian with the intention of visiting the Soviet Union but he died before that intention could be realised. On each anniversary of his death there are celebrations throughout South America in his honour by the members of the Legion of Mary.
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