The Cause of Beatification

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 45

The Cause of Beatification

The Pans papers La Croix and La Libre Parole contain long articles announcing and dwelling on the good news of the introduction of the cause of beatification of Mere Marie Therese du Coeur de Jesus, foundress of the Congregation de TAdoration Reparatnce Mother Marie, whose name in the world was Theodelinde Dubouche, and who was born at Montauban in 1809, accomplished a great apostolic work. In tut after having brought back her dying mother to the faith, to which she had become indifferent, she turned to God herself, converted all her family, and was induced by two successive visions to bring ‘reparatrices’ together. Before the Revolution of 1848 she got some young girls to devote themselves to the religious life, fehe then founded an association of pious women and afterwards organised her Order, modelled on that of the Carmelites, but independent of it. The Order developed in poverty and amidst numberless difficulties. It would be impossible to describe all the good it has done through its special work—-namely, the perpetual adoration of t r. e Blessed Sacrament exposed day and night upon the altar, and perpetual prayer for reparation for insults to the Blessed Sacrament, the exaltation of the Church the return of those who have wandered from the Fold* the cure of the crying evil of religious indifference' and the increase of zeal amongst Catholics