Marie Deluil-Martiny

Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 - 27 February 1884) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus - she assumed the religious name of "Marie of Jesus" at the time of her profession as a nun. The order's gardener - an anarchist - shot her in 1884. Her beatification process commenced under Pope Benedict XV in 1921 and she was therefore made a Servant of God while being named as Venerable on 23 October 1987 after Pope John Paul II confirmed her heroic virtue. The same pope beatified her on 22 October 1989.

Marie Deluil-Martiny

Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 - 27 February 1884) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus - she assumed the religious name of "Marie of Jesus" at the time of her profession as a nun. The order's gardener - an anarchist - shot her in 1884. Her beatification process commenced under Pope Benedict XV in 1921 and she was therefore made a Servant of God while being named as Venerable on 23 October 1987 after Pope John Paul II confirmed her heroic virtue. The same pope beatified her on 22 October 1989.