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Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny - February 27 Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 – 27 February 1884) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart …More
Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny - February 27

Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 – 27 February 1884) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus - she assumed the religious name of "Marie of Jesus" at the time of her profession as a nun. The order's gardener - an anarchist - shot her in 1884.
Her beatification process commenced under Pope Benedict XV in 1921 and she was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 October 1989.

Marie Deluil-Martiny was born on 28 May 1841 in France as the eldest of five children to Paul Deluil-Martiny; her father served in the legal practice. She had one brother and three sisters - the last of which was Clemence (1849- 1859).She was baptized hours after her birth in the names of "Marie-Caroline-Philomène". The maternal side had a range of members who were nuns. She was also the great-niece of the Servant of God Madeleine Rémuzat (1696-1730).
Her education commenced at the age of eleven of which nuns oversaw.
Prior to the reception of her First Communion her parents sent her to a convent in Marseilles to prepare for the sacrament. On one occasion she stopped her recreational activities and took a friend - Angelica - aside and confided her happiness at the imminent reception of the Eucharist and remained absorbed in that thought for several moments. She received her First Communion on 22 December 1853 and later received the sacrament of Confirmation on 29 January 1854 from the Bishop of Marseilles and Saint Eugène de Mazenod.

At the age of fifteen while still in school she gathered a small group of students and dubbed it the Oblates of Mary - this small group was short lived since the students' superiors discovered it and dissolved it as soon as it was learned it had been established. She made a retreat towards the end of her studies in which it proved decisive for her religious vocation - she began writing in a spiritual journal around this time. Martiny also refused several marriage offers around this time due to realizing her true purpose and her call to follow Jesus Christ.

She decided to go and hear Saint Jean-Marie Vianney preach but due to the amount of people could not meet him. Yet the two later met when she found him kneeling in the church; the two spoke of her vocation and he encouraged her in this respect. She returned - in 1859 - to learn her sister Clemence had died of an illness following the reception of her First Communion. Two sisters and her sole brother died in the time after this which left her alone with her parents. Her two grandmothers followed sometime in the 1860s.

On 9 March 1864 she founded the Association of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart - now the Association of the Presence of Christ - which received canonical status on 7 June 1872.

She was invited in 1865 to make a spiritual retreat on the occasion of Pope Pius IX celebrating the beatification of Marguerite-Marie Alacoque. In December 1866 she heard the Jesuit priest Jean Calage (1805-1888) preach on the topic of the Sacred Heart and so revealed to him her desire to enter the religious life - he became her spiritual director. She had spent numerous hours discerning this in front of the Tabernacle. She made a solemn vow to remain chaste on 8 December 1867 - the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

On 20 June 1873 - in the advice of Calage - she founded the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus in Berchem and in 1875 completed the writing of its constitution according to the charism of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. It received diocesan approval on 2 February 1876 from Cardinal Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps. The first religious - which included Martiny - made their vows on 22 August 1878. She established their first convent on 24 June 1879.

In November 1883 she hired the poor Louis Chave (born1862) as a gardener at the convent to better fortunes. But Chave demonstrated his laziness and his rude and demanding nature. Matters became worse when it was revealed that Chave was an anarchist. On 27 February 1884 - Ash Wednesday - he waited in ambush as she and the religious passed during their recreation. He sprang out as she spoke kind words to him and he grabbed her and shot her twice at point-blank range with a revolver; this wounded her in the carotid artery which caused her to collapse and - before she died - murmur: "I forgive him ... for the Institute".

Her remains were interred with her parents and siblings in Marseille but were later transferred to Berchem in 1899 and then exhumed for canonical inspection (as part of the beatification proceedings) on 4 March 1989 when her remains were found both intact and flexible. Her remains were later moved to Rome on 28 September 2013.

As of 2005 there was a total of 50 religious in 6 houses in nations such as Austria and Croatia. The order received the papal decree of praise on 25 February 1888 and the full papal approval of Pope Leo XIII on 2 February 1902.
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Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny - February 27
shot twice at point-blank range with a revolver, damaging her carotid artery, on Ash Wednesday, 27 February 1884 in La Servianne, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
buried with family in Marseille
re-interred at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium in 1899 when the Daughters were expelled from France
relics exhumed and …More
Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny - February 27
shot twice at point-blank range with a revolver, damaging her carotid artery, on Ash Wednesday, 27 February 1884 in La Servianne, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
buried with family in Marseille
re-interred at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium in 1899 when the Daughters were expelled from France
relics exhumed and inspected on 4 March 1989 as part of the canonization investigation
re-interred at the mother-house of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus in Rome, Italy on 28 September 2013
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