DELUIL MARTINY, MARIE de JÉSUS. – Religious, foundress of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus (v.), born in Marseille on 28 May 1841 and died there on 27 February 1884, killed by a gardener at the House she had founded. Educated by the Sisters of the Visitation, she promoted the spread of the “Guard of Honor” of the Sacred Heart. Animated by a profound spirit of reparation for the offenses committed against the Sacred Heart, she worked and suffered greatly for this lofty ideal. Her cause of beatification is in progress.
BIBL.: Pensées de la servante de Dieu mère Marie de Jésus, Rome 1918; L. Leplace, La madre M. d. G. D. M., Italian trans., Milan 1925; R. Garrigou-Lagrange, La vita interiore della madre M. di G. D. M., there 1939. Silverio Mattei