Messenger of the Sacred Heart (MESSAGGERO DEL SACRO CUORE) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 497

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MESSENGER OF THE SACRED HEART. - Monthly periodical for the spread of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Apostleship of Prayer, founded in Parma in 1864 by the Barnabite Fr A. Maresca, in imitation of the Messager du Sacré Coeur, begun at Vals by the Jesuit H. Ramière in 1861.
MESSAGGERO DEL S. CUORE — MESSALE

Article illustration — (by courtesy of Fr. A. Dold) MESSALE — M. copied at S. Cristina di Olona (c. 850). Masses for the Weekdays VI and VII after Easter — Monza, State Archive.

The first two years are a translation of the French periodical of the same name; later it became independent. Subsequently edited by Frs. A. Maresca, G. B. Vitali, D. Perilli, at the end of 1916 it moved to Rome under the direction of the Jesuits Aloisi Masella and G. Venturini.

The publication continues to this day and regularly contains commentary on the “monthly intentions,” including the missionary ones approved by the Pope and proposed to members of the Apostleship of Prayer, meditations for the monthly retreat, biographies of saints and particularly worthy persons, conversions, and a review of the interests of the Apostleship of Prayer. The periodical is accompanied by books and pamphlets on the same subject.

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