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The Golden Arrow

The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter
(18161848)
On Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus

Edited by
Dorothy Scallan
Translated by
Fr. Emeric B. Scallan, S.T.B.

Nihil Obstat:		John M. A. Fearns, S.T.D. Censor Librorum
Imprimatur:		Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York March 15, 1954

The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur agree with the contents, opinions or statements expressed.

This book was originally published in hardbound in 1954 by The William Frederick Press, New York, New York. It was reissued by that company in a paperbound edition in 1973 under the title, Veronicas Veil , giving the editors name as Doris Sheridan (pen name of Dorothy Scallan, the sister of Fr. Emeric Scallan). This present (third) edition is photographically reproduced complete and unabridged from the first edition, with the new elements of the second edition added, and using once again the original title.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 90-70258

TAN Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
www.TANBooks.com

2012

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
IN THIS M ARIAN Y EAR OF G RACE
TO
MARY IMMACULATE, THE MOTHER OF GOD, THAT SHE MAY OBTAIN FOR US THE TRIUMPH OF THE WORK OF REPARATION THROUGH THE HOLY FACE OF HER DIVINE SON

SISTER MARY OF ST. PETER
AND OF THE HOLY FAMILY
1816-1848
Carmelite Nun of Tours, France
To Whom Our Lord imparted His revelations
About Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus

W E HEREBY declare that we absolutely and entirely conform to the decree of Urban VIII with respect to the terms of eulogy or veneration applied to the servants of God, Sister Mary of St. Peter, and others, as well as to the Divine revelations mentioned in the present book; and, moreover, that we by no means anticipate the decisions of the Holy See.

THE "GOLDEN ARROW" PRAYER

M AY the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

After receiving this prayer, Sister Mary of St. Peter was given a vision in which she saw the Sacred Heart of Jesus delightfully wounded by this " Golden Arrow ," as torrents of graces streamed from It for the conversion of sinners.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I WISH to express my gratitude to the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, at Tours, France, for presenting me with authoritative manuscripts in the French language, used exclusively in the preparation of this English version of the Autobiography and the Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter and of the Holy Family, a professed religious of their own community, who died in the odor of sanctity on July 8, 1848.

Furthermore, I here express my warm thanks to the Priests at the Oratory of the Holy Face, at Tours, France, for their encouragement and permission to translate the French documents on the Work of Reparation, emanating from the Seat of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, at Tours.

Finally, I take this occasion to acknowledge with gratitude the literary and spiritual assistance rendered me in the preparation of this book by Miss Doris Sheridan. Her noteworthy research on the Cult of the Holy Face has been evidenced by her extensive writings on this topic, and particularly climaxed by her most recent book, The Whole World Will Love Me (1954, The William-Frederick Press, New York), which strikingly bears out that it was the Little Flower's devotion to the Holy Face which drove her to her unparalleled heights of sanctity.

E MERIC B. S CALLAN, S.T.B .

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE

( Adapted for the 1990 edition from the Second Edition of the book )

FATHER EMERIC B. SCALLAN pursued his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and in Rome, where he was ordained. The late Bishop Cornelius Van de Ven of New Orleans appointed Father Scallan as the first editor of the New Orleans diocesan newspaper and thereby launched him on a career in Catholic publishing.

After spending a number of years in the press, Father Scallan noted the alarming spread of atheism. He became convinced that of all the published Catholic material that came to his attention as editor, the Revelations of the French cloistered Carmelite Nun, Sister Mary of St. Peter, dealt directly with the problem of overcoming atheism and restoring peace to the world. He therefore translated her autobiography and helped his sister Dorothy with two other books dealing with this single theme, namely, that of offering the bruised Holy Face of Jesus to the Eternal Father in reparation for blasphemy.

At present, during these post-conciliar years, irreligion and other direct affronts against the Church have multiplied to drastic proportions. Not only in secular spheres, but even in quarters called "Catholic" there is a sort of infamous jabbing at all things Catholic, and that on a wide, public scale, which actually derogates from the extrinsic honor due the Holy Name of God. For this reason, and also because recently there have been repeated requests for the book treating the Revelations on the Holy Facefrom both religious and the laitya new, third edition has been undertaken. This current book, in flexible cover, is an unabridged edition of the first edition of The Golden Arrow .

Besides this book, there are two more volumes, forming together a sort of "trilogy" on the Holy Face Devotion for our times. The Holy Man of Tours (formerly titled God Demands Reparation ), by Dorothy Scallan, deals with the life of a French attorney, Leo Dupont, who was personally acquainted with Sister Mary of St. Peter, to whom the revelations of this book were imparted by Our Lord. After her death, he became an apostle, spreading the cult of the Holy Face, not only in France, but to the most distant points of the world. After Sr. Mary's death and before official Church approval of the Holy Face Devotion, Leo Dupont developed great personal devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus (inspired by the revelations of Sr. Mary), to which he was so committed that for some 30 years he kept a perpetual lamp burning before a true replica of Veronica's Veil in a place of honor and veneration in the drawing room of his home in Tours, France. Before long, he was working miracles by applying the oil of this lamp to people's diseased or injured members. In time, his success and fame as a miracle-worker became so astounding that Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) declared him to be perhaps the greatest thaumaturgist (miracle-worker) in Church history. The cause for his beatification is in process.

The third book in this series is entitled The Whole World Will Love Me , by Dorothy Scallan, and is a biography of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. In this definitive study, St. Therese is portrayed in her essential role as an adorer of the Holy Face, which practice sent her to such heights of sanctity that she has come to be esteemed as the greatest saint of modern times.

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