Joseph de Gallifet

Joseph de Gallifet SJ (Joseph -François de Gallifet ) ( born 2 May 1663 Le tholonet in Aix -en- Provence, France, † September 1st 1749, Lyon ) was a French Catholic priest and author of theological works.

Life

Joseph de Gallifet occurred on September 17, 1678 at Avignon in the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. The hl. Claude de la Colombière, who was his spiritual director and his teacher made ​​him familiar with the Sacred Heart devotion. He promoted the Jesuit order as superior and as spiritual director this Devotion and wrote several scriptures to do so. He sat down hard for the establishment of a Sacred Heart Festival, one of the core content of the visions of St.. Margaret Mary Alacoque. His work De Cultu Sacrosanti Cordis Jesus was translated into all European languages ​​. This work, a plea for the Sacred Heart devotion, contains a biography of Margaret Mary Alacoque and a compilation of the former distribution of devotion, including the built Sacred Heart brotherhoods. He founded the Sacred Heart Fraternity at the Church of San Teodoro al Palatino, of the celebration of the Sacred Heart festival in 1765 by Pope Clement XIII. was granted.

Together with Jean Croiset he considered the most important apostles of the Sacred Heart devotion in the spirit of the apparitions of Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray -le -Monial.

Works

  • De Cultu Sacrosanti Cordis Jesus ac Domini Nostri Jesus Christ in variis Christianized orbis provinciis jam propagato. Rome 1726
  • L' excellence et la pratique de la Sainte Vierge à la dévotion. Lyon 1750
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