Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Claude de la Colombière

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Claude de la Colombière  2/15/2024  Lent, Our Desert Experience

St. Claude de la Colombiere, SJ (1641-1682)

He is remembered principally as the spiritual director who recognized the truth of the revelation that St.Margaret Mary Alacoque received; he also showed heroic virtue in enduring imprisonment that weakened his health and led to an early death.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus  On Feb. 15 the Catholic Church honors Saint Claude de la Colombiere, the 17th century French Jesuit who authenticated and wrote about Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque's visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

He was born in 1641 from the ancient Province of Dauphiné, the third child of the notary Bertrand La Colombière and of Margaret Coindat. The family soon moved to the nearby city of Vienne, where he began his education, before attending the Jesuit school in Lyon for his secondary studies.

Claude La Colombière, SJ was a Jesuit priest and the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque.