Joseph de Gallifet

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

Life

Joseph de Gallifet entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus on September 17, 1678 at Avignon . St. Claude de la Colombière , who was his soul guide and his teacher, made him familiar with the devotion to the Sacred Heart . He promoted this devotion in the Jesuit order as a superior and as a soul guide and wrote various writings on it. He campaigned intensively for the establishment of a feast of the Sacred Heart, one of the core contents of the visions of St. Margareta Maria Alacoque , a. His work De Cultu Sacrosanti Cordis Jesu has been translated into all European languages. This work, a plea for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, contains a biography of Margareta Maria Alacoque and a compilation of the spread of devotion at that time, including the established Sacred Heart Brotherhoods. He himself founded the Sacred Heart Brotherhood at the Church of San Teodoro al Palatino , which was the celebration of a Sacred Heart Festival in 1765 by Pope Clement XIII. was granted.

Together with Jean Croiset , he is considered the most important apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the spirit of the apparitions of Margareta Maria Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial .

Works

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

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SURNAME Gallifet, Joseph de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallifet, Joseph-François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Tholonet near Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1749
Place of death Lyon