...is the feast of Blessed Claude de la Colombiere. He is best known for his devotion to the Sacred Heart, via St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. From one site:
It was after this revelation that St. Margaret Mary was to meet and be guided by the great Jesuit priest, St. Claude de la Colombiere.(d.1682) He would be the first, after St. Margaret Mary, to respond to these requests of the Sacred Heart. Our Blessed Lord, in speaking to Sister Margaret Mary, even called him His "perfect friend."And part of the revelation:
Revealing to me His Divine Heart, He said: 'Behold this heart, which has loved men so much, that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify to them its love and in return I receive from the greater number nothing but ingratitude by reason of their irreverence and sacrileges and by the coldness and contempt which they show me in this sacrament of love.'
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