August 3, 1903: Birth in heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Religious of the Visitation and foundress of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Guards of Honor that from up there she will not forget them.
August 5, 1861: On the feast of Our Lady of the Snows (dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore), blessing of our Chapel whose construction has just been completed. Celebration of the first Mass.
August 11, 1859: Blessing and laying of the first stone of our Nantes Chapel, on the feast of Saint Philomena.
August 12: Solemnity of Saint Jeanne de Chantal, foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary.
August 19: Feast of St. John Eudes († 1680), devoted to the Heart of Jesus and Mary. In 1668 he composed a Mass and an Office in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
August 21, 1567: Birth of Saint Francis de Sales, founder of the Order of the Visitation, at the castle of Thorens.
August 22, 2022 (feast of Mary Queen): On the occasion of the centenary of the proclamation of Mary Most Holy and Saint Joan of Arc as principal and secondary patronesses of the France, Bishop Benoît Rivière of Autun consecrates the France to the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paray-le-Monial.
August 23, 1856: Blessed Pius IX., guard of honor, extends the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the entire Catholic Church.
August 24, 1907: Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey (priest of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary), praying at the Chapel of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, feels confirmed in his call to promote the social reign of the Sacred Heart by enthronement of his image in families.
August 27, 1944: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie-Angélique Millet at the monastery of the Visitation of Caen.
August 28: Feast of St. Augustine, whose Rule serves as the basis for the Constitutions of the Order of the Visitation of St. Mary.