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 of the House she had founded. Educated by the Sisters of the Visitation, she promoted the spread of the “Guard of Honour” of the Sacred Heart. Animated by a profound spirit of reparation for the offences given to the Sacred Heart, she worked and suffered greatly for this lofty ideal. Her cause of beatification is underway.
Bibl.: Pensées de la servante de Dieu mère Marie de Jésus, Rome 1918; L. Leplace, La madre M. d. G. D. M., trad. it., Milan 1928; R. Garriano-Lagrange, La vita interiore della madre M. d. G. D. M., 1939. Silverio Mattei