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'''Mary of Saint Peter''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Marie de Saint-Pierre}}) (4 October 1816–8 July 1848) was a [[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 p.319}}
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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 p. 148}}
From 1844 to 1847 Mary of Saint Peter reported that she had "communications" from Jesus about spreading devotion to his 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|Janvier p. 116}} According to Marie of Saint 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]].
The devotion that she started was promoted by [[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 Mary of 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.
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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}}
"The Golden Arrow prayer" is based on reports of interior conversations of [[Jesus]] by Sister 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.
On March 16, 1844, Jesus reportedly told Sister Mary: ''"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."''
Sister 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. Sr. Mary of St. 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>Ann Ball, ''Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices'' 2003 {{ISBN|0-87973-910-X}} pages 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 Gospel==
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* [[Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face]]
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{{Reflist}}
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* ''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}}
* Janvier, Rev. P. The Life of Sister Saint-Pierre. 1885. Imprimatur of the Archbishop of Tours.
==External links==
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[[Category:French Roman Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic devotions]]
[[Category:Visions of Jesus and Mary]]▼
[[Category:Discalced Carmelite nuns]]
[[Category:Carmelite mystics]]
[[Category:People from Tours, France]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic prayers]]
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