FATHER JOSEPH DE GALLIFFET has been called, and with great justice, the apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart. It was he who bore the brunt of the struggle in its behalf. It is to him that we owe the publication of the Memoir of Blessed Margaret Mary written by herself; it was he who first laid at the feet of the Holy Father the petition for the establishment of the Feast; it was he who, when the petition was negatived by the Sacred Congregation, pursued with undaunted perseverance the task entrusted to him by Almighty God, knowing well that this first rebuff was but the signal of...
FATHER JOSEPH DE GALLIFFET has been called, and with great justice, the apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart. It was he who bore the brunt of t...