Josefa menendez cause of death
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This is the first talk in a 3-part series, Saints of the Sacred Heart, on Sister Josefa Menendez. The video is a replay of a live talk on Crowdcast with the speaker’s outline below.
Who was Josefa Menendez?
She was a simple Spanish nun who lived a hidden life. Belonged to a French order, chosen by Our Lord as His messenger in the early 1900’s. Sister Josefa Menendez witnessed many visions of the Lord revealing His inexhaustible love for the world, as well as visions of other visitors from the spiritual realm.
This is based on the book, “The Way of Divine Love,” which is both a biography and writings from her diary on her mystical revelations. In some ways the book reminds me of messages in St. Faustina’s Diary, “Divine Mercy in My Soul” and of St. Therese of Lisieux’s “Story of a Soul,” as the foundations of it are mercy and littleness.
I will share insights from my spiritual reading, including the core messages Josefa received about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, suffering for souls, the evils of the Enemy and Hell, and the love and mercy of Jesus.
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INTRODUCTION
On December 29th, 1923, Sister Josefa Menéndez, when thirty-three years old, died a holy death at the Convent of Les Feuillants, Poitiers. She lived as a Sister in the Society of the Sacred Heart only four years, and in so hidden a way that the world ought never to have heard of her, and even in her own community she should soon have been forgotten.
Yet, only twenty years after her death, she is known all over the world. In America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania people are praying to her and are listening attentively to the Message which the Heart of Jesus has given her for men.
In 1938 the substance of the Message, under the title of Un Appel à l’Amour, was published in Toulouse by the Apostleship of Prayer. Cardinal Pacelli, now gloriously reigning as Pope Pius XII, wrote a foreword of recommendation in the form of a letter. Five years later a complete biography was asked for with insistence, since readers were anxious for all the details of a life so rich yet so hidden and in which the very poverty of the human background threw into relief the splendor of Christ’s d
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A SOUL’S AWAKENING
1890–1907
“I want you to be all Mine.”
(Our Lord to Josefa, March 17th, 1901)
SPAIN gave Our Lord the soul He was to consecrate to His Love, though it was in France that He revealed Himself to her.
Josefa Menéndez, a native of Madrid, was born on the 4th of February 1890, and was baptized in the church of San Lorenzo on the 9th of the same month, being given the names of Josefa Maria.
Her father, Leonardo Menéndez, also a native of the same capital, had had a sad youth, for his father died when he was very young, and his mother marrying again, the unwanted boy was sent to school. When only seventeen years of age he lost the mother, whom he dearly loved, and to drown this sorrow and his loneliness, he enlisted in the army. His superior officer was not long in appreciating his marked artistic talents, and he was appointed decorator of the Artillery Museum, where he did so well that ever after he was in constant demand whenever military decorations had to be designed, either in the local cathedral of St. Isidore or at the Royal Palace.
In 1888 he married Lucia
INTRODUCTION
On December 29th, 1923, Sister Josefa Menéndez, when thirty-three years old, died a holy death at the Convent of Les Feuillants, Poitiers. She lived as a Sister in the Society of the Sacred Heart only four years, and in so hidden a way that the world ought never to have heard of her, and even in her own community she should soon have been forgotten.
Yet, only twenty years after her death, she is known all over the world. In America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania people are praying to her and are listening attentively to the Message which the Heart of Jesus has given her for men.
In 1938 the substance of the Message, under the title of Un Appel à l’Amour, was published in Toulouse by the Apostleship of Prayer. Cardinal Pacelli, now gloriously reigning as Pope Pius XII, wrote a foreword of recommendation in the form of a letter. Five years later a complete biography was asked for with insistence, since readers were anxious for all the details of a life so rich yet so hidden and in which the very poverty of the human background threw into relief the splendor of Christ’s d
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A SOUL’S AWAKENING
1890–1907
“I want you to be all Mine.”
(Our Lord to Josefa, March 17th, 1901)
SPAIN gave Our Lord the soul He was to consecrate to His Love, though it was in France that He revealed Himself to her.
Josefa Menéndez, a native of Madrid, was born on the 4th of February 1890, and was baptized in the church of San Lorenzo on the 9th of the same month, being given the names of Josefa Maria.
Her father, Leonardo Menéndez, also a native of the same capital, had had a sad youth, for his father died when he was very young, and his mother marrying again, the unwanted boy was sent to school. When only seventeen years of age he lost the mother, whom he dearly loved, and to drown this sorrow and his loneliness, he enlisted in the army. His superior officer was not long in appreciating his marked artistic talents, and he was appointed decorator of the Artillery Museum, where he did so well that ever after he was in constant demand whenever military decorations had to be designed, either in the local cathedral of St. Isidore or at the Royal Palace.
In 1888 he married Lucia
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