Holy Face of Jesus - The Visions

The Visions

The devotions to the Holy Face of Jesus involve two European nuns, both named after Saint Mary but who lived almost one hundred years apart. Both nuns reported visions of Jesus and Mary. The first nun was called Sister Marie of St Peter from Tours France and lived in the 1840s. The second nun was called Sister Maria Pierina De Micheli and lived in the 1930s in Milan Italy.

In 1843, the first nun, Sister Marie of St Peter, who was a Carmelite nun in Tours France, reported a vision in which Jesus spoke to her. She later reported further visions and conversations with Jesus and the Virgin Mary in which she was urged to spread the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in His Passion.

According to Sister Marie of St Peter, in 1844 she had a vision in which Jesus told her:

Oh if you only knew what great merit you acquire by saying even once, Admirable is the Name of God, in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy.

Her visions reportedly included the words to a specific prayer as an Act of Reparation to Jesus Christ which came to be known as The Golden Arrow Holy Face Devotion (Prayer). This prayer and the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus started to spread among Roman Catholics in France as of 1844.