The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-11-25
REVEALED TO HER
A Book Which viii Cause Ieep
Emotion To Catholics.
How tho Divine Will Was Made
= Known To Lee XIII.


the entire Catholic world, for therein
: is revealed, in the most precise way
+ and with the most reliable testimony
;, that the conservation of the World tc
the Sacred Heart accomplished by Lee
XIII. on the eve of the new century
was the result of supernatural reve-
lation made by the Sacred Heart tc
Sister Mary of the Divine Heart, a
Good Shepherd nun of Oporto Portu-
gal, and by her transmitted, on the
instructions of her confessor, to the
Sovereign Pontiff, says the Dublin
Irish Catholic.
We quote from the biography of
in which the facts are now given to
the world. And first as to the sane
tity of her to whom was communi-
Gated the divine message, and how it
was given to her:
By suffering, by daily Communion,
by prayer, by the practice of ODE
dience, Sister Mary of the Divine
Heart had consumed all self within
her in order that her Divine Spouse
might live there alone; united, and as
it were identified with Him, she was
fitted to become the instrument of the
infinite mercies with which His love
desired to light up the end of the
nineteenth century. After having
spent herself in the effort to spread
devotion to the Sacred Heart in q
sufficiently extended circle yet COM
paratively restricted, she was to be
the medium of the progress of this
cultus throughout the entire world by
interveniHg-by the order and in the
name Of the Sacred Heart-with the
Head of His Church to solicit the con-
secration of the human race to that
Sacred Heart. 1t was in the month
of June, 1897, that the servant of God
saw this troublous career open for
her.
Sister Mary Informed her confessor
of tle mission entrusted to her He
babe her wait, to which she dutifully
submitted. But again she was urged
to communicate to the Holy Father
what had been revealed to her, and
again she was hidden to wait. IN the
meantime her physical suffering grew
in intensity At last, when Il crisis
came in her illness, her confessor
yielded, and, she being unable to write,
he acted as her secretary. The letter
in due course reached the hands Of the
Holy Father, who was much impressed
by it; but for one reason or another
the year QS9S) finished without any
thing being done. During this time
the holy nun continued to suffer and
pray, and at this epoch wrote an act
Of conservation to the Sacred Heart,
which Leo Mi. in 1902 approved and
enriched with an indulgence of three
hundred days. We quote from Able
Chasle's book the holy nuns own
words:
On the I'd of December, the first Fri
day of the month, Our Lord for the
third time mentioned the subject of
the conservation of the human race to
His Divine Heart, but without asking
anything.
On the 7th of December Our Lord
again spoke of the conservation, but
was more pressing. Finally He told
me that He wished me to write again
to Rome. I answered Our Lord that
the consent of my spiritual father had
cost me much suffering, and asked If
I should this time suffer as much and
be at the point of death to convince
the vice rector Our Lord answered in
the negative, and told me that this
time l would get consent without
difficulty.
Permission was accorded as our
by the confessor was sent to Rome on
the Feast OF the Epiphany, 1899.
Here is the text of this most pre-
cious document:
Most Holy Father: In deepest con-
fusion, l return to the feet Of your
Holiness to most humbly ask you to
permit me speak to you again on the
subject upon which I wrote to your
Holiness in the month of June last.
Then, scarcely passed through a crisis
of life and DEATH by strength per-
mitted me only to dictate letter.
Now, although upon my sick bed,
can at least write with crayon. In
my last letter confided to your Holt
ness certain graces which Our Lord
In His infinite mercy deigned to
worthiness. 1t Is with confusion that
I confess to your Holiness that He
has since continued to treat me with
the same mercy. By express order OF
Our Lord, and with the consent OF
my confessor, l come with the most
profound respect and the most perfect
submission to impart to your Holiness
some new communications which Our
Lord has deigned to make to me on
the matter treated of in my first let
ter.
When last summer your Holiness
suffered from an indisposition, which
having regard to vo,,r advanced 400