Mary of Jesus: beatified on October 22, 1989, by John Paul II

Born in Marseilles, France, in 1841, Mary of Jesus (Marie Deluil-Martiny) founded in Belgium, near Antwerp, in 1873, the Congregation of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus, dedicated to perpetual adoration of the Eucharist, in union with Mary, and was wounded to death at La Serviane, a monastery in Marseilles, in hatred of religion, by a former gardener.

She was beatified on October 22, 1989 by John Paul II.

At her beatification, Pope John Paul II summed up her spiritual journey as follows: “She was moved from an early age by the wounds inflicted on the love of Jesus and by the all-too-frequent rejection of God in society. At the same time, she discovered the greatness of Jesus' gift to the Father to save mankind, the wealth of love radiating from his Heart, and the fruitfulness of the blood and water flowing from his open side. She was convinced that it was necessary to share in the redemptive suffering of the Crucified One in a spirit of reparation for the sins of the world.”

In 1873, she founded the Congregation of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus, an order of contemplative nuns dedicated to adoration and reparation, in union with Jesus the Priest and Victim and Mary, the Virgin associated with the Divine Sacrifice.

In Marseilles in 1884, she was wounded to death by a mentally disturbed gardener, thus bringing to an end with the shedding of her blood a life intimately united to the Passion of Christ.

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