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'''MarieMary of Saint Peter, O.C.D.''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Marie de Saint -Pierre}}); 4 October (1816&ndashnbsp;– 8 July 1848) was a [[Discalced Carmelites|Discalced Carmelite]] [[nun]] who lived in [[Tours]], France. She is best known for starting the devotion to the [[Holy Face of Jesus]] which is now one of the approved [[Catholic devotions]] and for the ''[[The Golden Arrow prayer|Golden Arrow Prayer]]''. She also introduced the "Little Sachet" sacramental.{{sfn|Ball |2003|p.=319}}
 
==Life==
▲[[File:SrMarieofStPeter.jpg|thumb|left|150px|caption = Sister Marie of St Peter with the Golden Arrow. The three rings symbolize the [[Holy Trinity]].]]
Marie was born on 4 October 1816 in [[Rennes]], region of [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]], to Peter and Frances Portier Eluere, and baptized in the Church of St. Germain. As a child she was called Perrine. Her mother died when she was twelve and she was sent to learn dressmaking with two of her paternal aunts. On 13 November 1839 she entered the CarmelCarmelite atMonastery of Tours, a carmelFrance, thatwhich had a particular devotion to the [[Sacred Heart]]. Perrine had a special devotion to the Holy Infancy of Jesus. She was professed as a Discalced Carmelite nun under the name Sister Mary St.of Saint Peter and of the Holy Family ({{lang-fr|link=no|Sœur Marie de Saint-Pierre et de la Sainte Famille}}) on 8 June 1841.<ref name=janvier>[https://archive.org/stream/lifeofsistermary00janvuoft#page/n3/mode/2up Janvier, Pierre DesireDésiré. ''The Life of Sister Mary St. Peter, Carmelite of Tours'', 1884]</ref>
 
{{Holy Face of Jesus}}
On 8 August 1843 [[Pope Gregory XVI]] promulgated a [[papal brief]] for the erection of a confraternity under the patronage of St. [[Louis IX of France]] for the reparation of blasphemy against the Holy Name of God. OnLouis the 26 [[Leo Dupont]]IX, thecommonly "holyrevered manas ofSaint Tours"Louis, distributedwas among severalKing of theFrance communitiesfrom of1226 Tours,until ahis prayerdeath in honor1270.<ref ofname="crawley">{{cite theweb Holy Name of God|title=St. TheLouis prayersIX hadof beenFrance circulated{{!}} among all the religious housesEWTN |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/louis-ix-of-france-672 the|website=[[EWTN|EWTN city,Global butCatholic despiteTelevision beingNetwork]] on|access-date=31 friendlyDecember terms2023 with the Carmelites, M. DuPont apparently forgot them.|language=en}}</ref name=janvier/>
 
On the 26 [[Leo Dupont]], the "holy man of Tours", distributed among several of the communities of Tours, a prayer in honor of the Holy Name of God. The prayers had been circulated among all the religious houses of the city, but despite being on friendly terms with the Carmelites, Leo Dupont apparently forgot them.<ref name=janvier/>
Sister Mary reported that eighteen days later, while commencing her evening prayer Jesus made her to understand that he would give her a prayer of reparation, a "golden dagger" for blasphemy against his [[Holy Name]]. He told her that the devotion He was entrusting to her was to have as its aim not only reparation for blasphemy, but also reparation for the profanation of the Holy Day of the Lord.<ref name=carmel>[http://carmeloftheholyface.com/sr-mary-of-st-peter "Sr. Mary of St. Peter", Carmel of the Holy Face of Jesus]</ref> She invariably declared that these [[Interior locutions|"communications"]] were neither visions, nor apparitions; that the truths shown her were not exhibited under an eternal form, nor did she physically hear what she was commissioned to relate.{{sfn|Janvier p. 148}}▼
 
▲Sister Mary reported that eighteen days later, while commencing her evening prayer Jesus made her to understand that he would give her a prayer of reparation, a "golden dagger" for blasphemy against his [[Holy Name]]. He told her that the devotion He was entrusting to her was to have as its aim not only reparation for blasphemy, but also reparation for the profanation of the Holy Day of the Lord.<ref name=carmel>[{{Cite web |url=http://carmeloftheholyface.com/sr-mary-of-st-peter |title="Sr. Mary of St. Peter", Carmel of the Holy Face of Jesus] |access-date=2016-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306131125/http://carmeloftheholyface.com/sr-mary-of-st-peter |archive-date=2016-03-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She invariably declared that these [[Interior locutions|"communications"]] were neither visions, nor apparitions; that the truths shown her were not exhibited under an eternal form, nor did she physically hear what she was commissioned to relate.{{sfn|Janvier |1884|p. =148}}
From 1844 to 1847 Sister Marie of St Peter reported that she had "communications" from Jesus about spreading devotion to His Most Holy Face.<ref>[https://www.carmelitemonastery.org/holy-face-prayers.php "Sr. Mary of St. Peter and the Work of Reparation", Discalced Carmelites of Sacramento]</ref> She reported that she experienced what her biographer, Janvier, terms "an interior vision". Repeatedly she describes that while at meditation "The Lord gave me to understand" particular insights.{{sfn|Javier p. 116}} According to Sister Marie of St Peter, Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy, which He described as being like a "poisoned arrow." She wrote [[The Golden Arrow Holy Face Devotion (Prayer)]] which she said was dictated to her by Jesus. This prayer is now a well known [[Act of Reparation to Jesus Christ]].<ref name=Cruz194>Cruz, Joan Carroll, OCDS, ''Saintly Men of Modern Times'' (2003) {{ISBN|1-931709-77-7}} pages 194-197</ref><ref>Geoghegan, G.P., ''A collection of my Favorite Prayers'' (Dec 2, 2006) {{ISBN|1411694570}} page 106</ref>▼
 
▲From 1844 to 1847 Sister MarieMary of StSaint Peter reported that she had "communications" from Jesus about spreading devotion to His Mosthis Holy Face.<ref>[https://www.carmelitemonastery.org/holy-face-prayers.php "Sr. Mary of St. Peter and the Work of Reparation", Discalced Carmelites of Sacramento]</ref> She reported that she experienced what her biographer, Janvier, terms "an interior vision". Repeatedly she describes that while at meditation "The Lord gave me to understand" particular insights.{{sfn|Javier Janvier|1884|p. =116}} According to Sister Marie of StSaint Peter, Jesus told her that Hehe desired devotion to Hishis Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy, which Hehe described as being like a "poisoned arrow." She wrote [["The Golden Arrow Holy Face Devotion (Prayer)]]," which she said was dictated to her by Jesus. This prayer is now a well known [[Act of Reparation to Jesus Christ]].<ref name=Cruz194>Cruz, Joan Carroll, OCDS, ''Saintly Men of Modern Times'' (2003) {{ISBN|1-931709-77-7}} pages 194-197</ref><ref>Geoghegan, G. P., ''A collectionCollection of my Favorite Prayers'' (Dec. 2, 2006) {{ISBN|1411694570}} page 106</ref>
She wrote that Jesus told her: ''"Those who will contemplate the wounds on My Face here on earth, shall contemplate it radiant in heaven.”'' She also quoted Jesus as saying in her visions: ''“Oh if you only knew what great merit you acquire by saying even once, Admirable is the Name of God, in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy."''{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}▼
 
The devotion that she started was promoted by the [[Venerable]] [[Leo Dupont]]. Dupont prayed for and promoted the case for a devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus for around 30 years. Documents pertaining to the life of sister MarieMary of St.Saint Peter and the devotion were kept by the Catholic Church. Eventually, in 1874 [[Charles-Théodore Colet]] was appointed as the new Archbishop of Tours. Archbishop Colet examined the documents and in 1876 gave permission for them to be published and the devotion encouraged. The Devotion to the [[Holy Face of Jesus]] was eventually approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.
 
Almost 50 years later, another French [[Carmelites|Discalced Carmelite]] nun, [[Saint ThereseThérèse of Lisieux]] wrote a number of poems and prayers in the 1890s that also helped spread the devotion to the Holy Face. In the 1930s, an Italian nun, Sister [[Maria Pierina]] De Micheli associated the image of the [[Holy Face of Jesus]] from the [[Shroud of Turin]] with the devotion and made the first [[Holy Face Medal]].
 
The first [[Holy Face Medal]] was offered to [[Pope Pius XII]] who accepted it and approved the devotion in 1958 and declared the Feast of the [[Holy Face of Jesus]] as Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Roman Catholics.
 
{{Acts of Reparation}}
Her autobiography and reported revelations are published in the book “The Golden Arrow”.
 
==The Golden Arrow prayer==
==Little Sachet==▼
"The Golden Arrow prayer" is based on reports of interior conversations of [[Jesus]] by Mary of Saint Peter, of the Carmel of [[Tours]], in 1843.<ref name=Cruz194>Cruz, Joan Carroll, OCDS, ''Saintly Men of Modern Times'' (2003) {{ISBN|1-931709-77-7}} pages 194-197</ref> It is a prayer of reparation in praise of the [[Holy Name of Jesus|Holy Name of God]]. It is also a reparation for the profanation of Sunday and the Holy Days of Obligation.
The '''Little Sachet''', or the [[Gospel]] of the [[Holy Name of Jesus]], is a [[Roman Catholic devotion]] based on a [[sacramental]] that, according to tradition, was mystically revealed by [[Jesus Christ]] to Marie of St Peter in 1847, in a monastery in [[Tours, France]].<ref name="Ball1 ">Ann Ball, 2003 Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices {{ISBN|0-87973-910-X}} page 319</ref><ref>{{cite book| author = Sr. Mary Of St Peter| title = The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter (1816-1848) on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus| year = 2010| publisher = Tan Books & Pub| isbn = 978-0-89555-389-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Ball| first = Ann| title = The How-to Book of Sacramentals: Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You| year = 2005| publisher = Our Sunday Visitor| isbn = 978-1-59276-096-1 }}</ref>▼
 
▲SheOn wroteMarch that16, Jesus told her: ''"Those who will contemplate the wounds on My Face here on earth1844, shall contemplate it radiant in heaven.”'' She also quoted Jesus asreportedly sayingtold in her visionsMary: ''“Oh"Oh if you only knew what great merit you acquire by saying even once, Admirable is the Name of God, in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy."''{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}
It consists of a tiny leaflet on which are printed the short Gospel of the [[Circumcision of Jesus|Circumcision]], which mentions the giving of the name "[[Jesus (name)|Jesus]]"; a picture of Christ; the initials [[Holy Name of Jesus|IHS]] representing the [[Holy Name of Jesus]]; and some invocation together with the lines, "When Jesus was named — Satan was disarmed." This leaflet is folded into a small square, enclosed in a small pouch, and distributed to the faithful, who are encouraged to frequently say: "Blessed be the Most Holy Name of Jesus without end" while wearing it.<ref name=Ball1 />▼
 
Mary stated that Jesus told her that the two sins which offend him the most grievously are blasphemy and the profanation of Sunday. He called this prayer the "Golden Arrow", saying that those who would recite it would pierce him delightfully, and also heal those other wounds inflicted on him by the malice of sinners. Mary of Saint Peter saw, "streaming from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, delightfully wounded by this 'Golden Arrow,' torrents of graces for the conversion of sinners".<ref>''A collection of my Favorite Prayers'' G. P. Geoghegan (Dec 2, 2006) {{ISBN|1411694570}} page 106</ref>
 
In her book she wrote that in her visions Jesus told her that an act of sacrilege or blasphemy is like a "poisoned arrow", hence the name "Golden Arrow" for this reparatory prayer.<ref name=Ball209>{{harvnb|Ball|2003|pp=209–210}}</ref>
 
Words of the prayer:<ref name=Ball209/><ref name=Cruz194/>
 
:''May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable,''
:''most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God ''
:''be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored''
:''and glorified in Heaven, on earth,''
:''and under the earth, ''
:''by all the creatures of God,''
:''and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, ''
:''in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.''
:''Amen.''
 
▲==The Little SachetGospel==
▲The '''"Little Sachet'''Gospel", "Little Sachet" or the [[Gospel]] of the [[Holy Name of Jesus]], is a [[Roman Catholic devotion]] based on a [[sacramental]] that, according to tradition, was mystically revealed by [[Jesus Christ]] to MarieMary of StSaint Peter in 1847, in a monastery in [[Tours]], [[France]].<ref name="Ball1 ">Ann Ball, 2003 Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices {{ISBN|0-87973-910-X}} page 319</ref><ref>{{cite book| author = Sr. Mary Ofof St. Peter| title = The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter (1816-1848) on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus| year = 2010| publisher = Tan Books & Pub.| isbn = 978-0-89555-389-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Ball| first = Ann| title = The How-to Book of Sacramentals: Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You| year = 2005| publisher = Our Sunday Visitor| isbn = 978-1-59276-096-1 }}</ref>{{sfn|Janvier|1884|p=218}}
 
▲It consists of a tiny leaflet on which are printed the short Gospel of the [[Circumcision of Jesus|Circumcision]], consisting of [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]] 2:21 which mentions the giving of the name "[[Jesus (name)|Jesus]]"; a picture of Christ; the initials [[Holy Name of Jesus|IHS]] representing the [[Holy Name of Jesus]]; and some invocation together with the lines, "When Jesus was named &nbsp;— Satan was disarmed." This leaflet is folded into a small square, enclosed in a small pouch, and distributed to the faithful, who are encouraged to frequently say: "Blessed be the Most Holy Name of Jesus without end" while wearing it.<ref name{{sfn|Ball|2003|p=319}}{{sfn|Janvier|1884|p=Ball1 />218}}
 
==See also==
* [[Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ]]
* [[Holy Face of Jesus]]
* [[Holy Name of Jesus]]
* [[Maria Pia Mastena]]
* [[Marie Martha Chambon]]
* [[Oratory of the Holy Face]]
* [[Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face]]
 
==NotesReferences==
{{Reflist}}
 
==Sources==
* {{cite book | last=Ball, | first=Ann. ''| title=Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices'' | publisher=Our Sunday Visitor (IN) | publication-place=Huntington, Ind | date=2003 {{ISBN| isbn=0-87973-910-X}} |pages 209-210=209–210}}
* ''The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter'' by Mary of St. Peter and Dorothy Scallan (May 1, 2009) {{ISBN|0895553899}}
* Dorothy Scallan. ''The Holy Man of Tours.'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-89555-390-2}}
* ''The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter (1816-1848 on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus'' by Dorothy Scallan (May 1, 2009) {{ISBN|0895553899}}
* {{cite book |last=Janvier |first=Rev. P. |title=The Life of Sister Mary St. Peter |year=1884 |publisher=Imprimatur of the Archbishop of Tours |url=https://www.todayscatholicworld.com/life-of-sr-mary-st-peter-tours-holy-face.pdf }}
 
==External links==
* [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofsistermary00janvuoft#page/n3/mode/2up Janvier, Pierre Desire. ''The Life of Sister Mary St. Peter, Carmelite of Tours'', 1884]
* [http://www.holyface.com The Holy Face Association]
* [http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-face.htm Catholic Tradition Holy Face Directory]
* [http://www.holyface.org.uk Holy Face Devotion in the UK]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtour.html Archdiocese of Tours]
 
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