Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny was born into a distinguished French family in Marseille on May 28, 1841. The eldest of five children, she was consecrated to the Mother of God while still in the womb. Marie’s maternal Aunt was  Ven. Anne Madeleine Remuzat, (1696 – 1730) herself known for promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart, and whose cause for sainthood is currently under investigation.  Blessed Marie’s  father was a deeply Christian lawyer, from whom she inherited the courage to overcome life’s difficulties as well as a temperament combining ardent faith and great gentleness of heart.  However, she was also possessed of a strong and domineering character.

 

Called by one prelate “the Saint Teresa (of Avila) of our century,”  from an early age this brilliant Frenchwoman desired – in a unique way – to consecrate herself entirely to God, in order that she may lead others to an “explosion of love” for Him.

 

At the time of her First Communion Marie was sent as a boarder to the Visitation Convent in Marseille. One day during recreation she took a friend aside, “Imagine, Angelique, at this very moment the blood of Jesus is flowing at the altar for the world,” remaining  absorbed in this thought.  Marie made her First Communion there in Marseille on December 22, 1853 at age 12 and the following year was confirmed by Archbishop (now Saint) Eugene de Mazenrod.

 

A precocious child, at age 15 (some sources say 11) Marie formed, with a group of fellow students “The Oblates of Mary.”  This included a novitiate, a rule, and profession of vows.  Marie considered her “Oblates” a religious order. However the teaching superiors disapproved and dissolved the group, complaining about Marie’s mischief to Archbishop Mazenrod.  Calmly he stated to the Sisters, “She will be St. Marie of Marseille.”

 

At the end of her studies at age 17, Marie went on a retreat to discern her vocation.  She wrote in her journal, “Jesus Christ is the only One to love.  At my death, I would like to have loved no one but Him… To live properly in the world, I must abhor sin and flee its occasions, hate the world and what is of the world… Come and follow me, Jesus said.  O God, how beautiful these words are! It is mine if I want it.”

 

 

Around this time, she had the grace of meeting the Cure of Ars, St. Jean Marie Vianney. She spoke to him about her perceived vocation and, feeling quite clearly that God was calling her, she refused several proposals of marriage.

 

“You are called, that is for certain,” The Holy Cure confided, “but the time has not yet come. Entering religious life at the present time would disrupt God’s plans.  He has special plans for your soul.  You must prepare yourself through detachment from yourself.”

 

Thus, Marie endured many interior trials.  Guided by the Cure of Ars, she kept faith while Our Lord purified her soul.  Marie underwent a serious crisis of scruples, seeing sin everywhere.

 

“Living with the thought of being on bad terms with you, Oh Jesus, is to die a thousand times.  It’s so hard, sweet Master, never to feel you fully and to wait for Heaven to possess you.”

 

During this painful time Marie spent hours before the Blessed Sacrament, praying, seeking , and meditating, keeping all these things in her heart as our Blessed Mother did. Thanks to her wise confessor, Marie managed to emerge from this agonizing situation. Following the deaths of her younger sister Clemence and her three other siblings, Marie was left to care for her now penniless aging  parents.

 

In 1864 Marie learned of The Honor Guard of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a new association begun by a sister from the Visitation Convent in Bourg-en-Bresse.  The purpose of the Honor Guard was to glorify, love and console the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the offering of oneself with Him in a life of prayer, penance, and charity, in reparation for the sins of the world. Marie was soon blessed with the title “First Zealot” for the work she did in promoting the Honor Guard by distributing its printed matter, holy pictures and medals throughout the world.

 

In June of 1865, upon the beatification of Sr. Margaret Mary Alacoque – the seer of Paray-le-Monial – Marie was invited to make a retreat at the Visitation of Bourg, during which she received precious graces.  It was following this retreat, in December of 1866 Fr. John Cavage, S.J.  (also a ‘Blessed’ of the Sacred Honor Guard) entered her life, preaching on the precious blood and water which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus.  Marie was inspired to reach out to Fr. Cavage, revealing to him her desire to enter religious life.

 

Marie knew that Our Lord wanted her to cooperate with him in making reparation for sins – but what did that mean, what did that ask of her?  Praying before the Real Presence on September 7, 1867 she heard Jesus tell her, “I am not known, I am not loved.”  Jesus continued, “I wish to make souls for myself who understand me… I am a torrent that wants to overflow and whose waters can no longer be held back! … I wish to make Myself cups so as to fill them with the waters of My Love… I am thirsty for hearts who appreciate Me and who enable Me to fulfill the goal for which I am here!  I am insulted, I am desecrated. Before the end of time, I want to be compensated for all the insults I have received… I want to distribute all the graces that have been refused…!”

 
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Praying a year later before the statue of Our Lady of La Salette in France (commemorating the apparitions of 1846, witnessed by Melanie Calvet and Maximum Giraud). Marie reports the following inspiration: “The Blessed Virgin wants victims who, in union with her pierced heart (cf. Luke 2:35) and with Jesus sacrificed, interpose themselves between the crimes of men and the justice of God.”

 

She thus prayed,

“O, Jesus, receive me from the hands of the Most Blessed Virgin and offer me with You, sacrifice me with You… I offer myself for this sacrifice as much as You wish and my weakness allows… I will consider all the crosses, all the sufferings that Your Providence sends me as proofs that You have accepted my humble offering.”

The seeds of the religious order she was to found had begun to blossom in her heart.

 

“Just as Mary on Calvary,” she postulated,  “united to the Eternal Priest, offered her Divine Son, and then renewed this offering through the hands of St. John, the Daughters of the  Heart of Jesus, united with all the priests in the world, will offer the Eucharistic Jesus sacrificed on every altar.  They will especially offer the Blood and Water that came forth from the divine Wound of the Sacred Heart.  They will be adorers of the Eucharist solemnly exposed in the chapels of their convents, and will dedicate themselves to surrounding Him with the most profound signs of respect and love.  This will be their life, their reason for being…”

 

Humiliating trials for Blessed Marie then followed, as God had taken her offering seriously.  Fr. John Cavage, a spiritual advisor wrote to her, “Strive to abase your spirit.  Your soul is malleable, and you are obedient, but your spirit must be humbled… The ordinary means God uses to humble the spirit are humiliations and temptations.  They show what you are without grace, something hideous and abominable.”

 

In the 1870’s, though Marie found herself ready to initiate her religious order, the French political situation interfered.  At that time Msgr.  Oswald van den Berghe, rector of Belgium’s (and the World’s) first basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart, invited Marie to Berchem, Belgium (a suburb of Antwerp) and it was here on June 20, 1873- the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart – that Marie founded the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus.

 

The objective of Marie’s order was to establish a love of expiation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in imitation of the spiritual priesthood of the Mother of Sorrows. These women led a cloistered life of constant prayer for priests (guardians of the zeal for Christ), adoration of the Eucharist, and sufferings offered for the conversion of the world and sanctification of its earthly shepherds.

 

Marie took the name Mother Marie of Jesus based on her model of Our Lady.  The only One in her life was the Eucharistic Jesus.  Mother Marie had long wanted to sacrifice her very life for our Lord.  She did not impose difficult sufferings or austere penances on her sisters.  She stated, “the sufferings caused by heat and cold are good windfalls for a mortified soul.  To say nothing on these occasions is a precious mortification, because no one sees or notices it; everything is for Jesus alone.”

 

Our Blessed Mother had told Mother Marie in prayer, “For the future institute, the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the celestial offering of the Divine Victim sacrificed on the altar, will compensate most excellently for the corporal mortifications that some constitutions can no longer bear.”

 

 

Because such a multitude of young people flocked to Mother Marie’s new foundation she founded two other monasteries, one on property she inherited from her mother, La Servianne in Marseille, and another in Aix-en-Provence.  Mother Marie taught her “daughters” the intimacy she herself experienced of Jesus.  She comforted and guided them, even ministering to them when they were ill.

 

Marie once wisely wrote:

“Isn’t it ridiculous for us to spend our time thinking about ourselves, admiring ourselves, or complaining, getting upset over our little troubles which seem so big to us, limiting ourselves by groaning over our misfortunes, when the great plans of God and the salvation of souls are calling us, when we have a God to love and serve, and souls to help and save?  We are like a man who, in the middle of a terrible fire that is burning down his house, and that is going to kill his mother, his father, his children, instead of hurrying to put it out, is in a corner wailing that his clothes got soiled from carrying buckets of water, and is busy picking off, with lamentations, each bit of ash that got on his clothes.  Oh! That is what we do when, in the midst of this unhappy world that is trying to burn down the Church and that insults Jesus Christ Our Lord, we spend our time complaining about our ills or our own trials, ,etc.  We shrink in on ourselves, when we could expand in embracing God, and become saints by serving His cause through our renunciations and sacrifices.  A good flap of the wings and, with the aid of grace, let us rise up, let us leave the earth – above all, leave ourselves – and no longer see anything but Jesus!”

 

A decade after founding her order, Marie hired a destitute Louis Chave hoping to pull the orphan from the cycle of poverty.  Louis showed himself to be rude, lazy and finally, an anarchist (typically known as atheistic haters of Catholicism) and Mother Marie, who had promised her life to her Jesus, fired Louis.

 

Five months later, on February 27, 1884, which was Ash Wednesday, Mother Marie was taking her recreation at the garden at La Servianne, where Chave lay in wait. Though she spoke only a kind word to him, he pulled out his revolver and shot her in the head and neck, severing the carotid artery.  Marie’s last words were, “I forgive him…all for the cause.” Marie’s most ardent desire since her childhood had been to shed her blood for, to suffer for Jesus. Chave had gratified her fondest wish – to die a Virgin and Martyr for Our Lord.

 

Mother Marie’s body, exhumed on the 4^thof March, 1989, in preparation for her beatification under beloved St. John Paul II, was found to be incorrupt.

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