Memento of the month
1er Friday in June 1674 : Our Lord Jesus Christ, during what is called the 2Th great apparition, asks Saint Margaret Mary (religious of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial) for the communion of reparation of the 1er Friday of each month and the Holy Hour.
June 6, 1610: On the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, Saint Jeanne de Chantal, Marie-Jacqueline Favre, Jeanne-Charlotte de Bréchard and Anne-Jacqueline Coste, shut themselves up in the small “house of the Gallery” to go to the perfection of divine love. St. Francis de Sales gives Our Blessed Mother an abridgement of our Constitutions. The Order of the Visitation of St. Mary is founded.
June 6, 1611: Saint Jeanne de Chantal, Sister Marie-Jacqueline Favre and Sister Jeanne-Charlotte de Bréchard make their Oblation in the hands of Saint Francis de Sales.
June 9, 1849: Entry into the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, future foundress of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It will begin its postulate at the end of the following month.
June 10, 1611: Saint Francis de Sales shares with Saint Jeanne de Chantal the intuition he received in the night, what will be the coat of arms of the Order of the Visitation and its motto:
“Long live Jesus!”
June 11, 1899: Pope Leo X.III. consecrates the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
June 16, 1793: Birth in Soyhières (Swiss Jura) of the Venerable Mother Marie de Sales Chappuis, mystical religious of the Visitation (Monasteries of Fribourg, Paris, Troyes).
June 16, 1875: Laying of the first stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
June 16, 1941: Birth in Heaven of the Servant of God Sister Françoise-Thérèse (Léonie Martin), at the monastery of the Visitation of Caen, whose beatification process is underway.
Between 13 and 20 June 1675: “3Th great apparition” – Jesus discovers his Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary and says these words to her: “Behold this Heart that loved men so much…”
June 20, 1671: Entry of Saint Margaret Mary, confidante and heiress of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to the monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial.
June 21, 1686: The image of the Sacred Heart is venerated for the first time by the Community of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial.
Friday, June 16: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, main feast of the Guard of Honour
Each member is invited to celebrate it with fervor, by arranging himself by a particular approach, such as through a novena. On this day the Apostolic Penitentiary grants the plenary indulgence to the members of the Guard of Honour under ordinary conditions.
Saturday, June 17: Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On this day the Apostolic Penitentiary grants the plenary indulgence to the members of the Guard of Honor under ordinary conditions.