Chaplet of Holy Wounds

Marie Martha Chambon (March 6, 1841 – March 21, 1907) was a lay Roman Catholic nun known for introducing the Rosary of the Holy Wounds.

Françoise Chambon was born March 6, 1841 to a poor farming family in the village of Croix Rouge, near Chambéry, in Savoy. Her first reported vision occurred when she was nine years old. As she was attending Good Friday services with her godmother, in the parish church of Lémenc, Françoise saw the crucified Jesus covered in wounds and blood. She said that later that year, when she received First Communion, she saw the baby Jesus,who told her, ""Child, my favorite, so it will be every time you go to Holy Communion."

At the age of twenty-one, she joined the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France as a lay sister, and was given he name Marie-Marthe.

She died on March 21, 1907, and the cause for her beatification was introduced in 1937.

She began to report visions of Jesus in 1866, telling her to contemplate the Holy Wounds. These were visions of Jesus Christ appearing to her and teaching her specific prayers and meditations on His wounds. She reported that she was told to pray to and invoke the Holy Wounds unceasingly.

Her mother superior kept a chronicle of her life which was published in 1923 and sold widely. The next year the Vatican granted an indulgence to those who said the following prayer, based on her reported visions: "Eternal Father I offer the wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal those of our souls."

She reported that Jesus asked her to unite her sufferings with His in the Rosary of the Holy Wounds as an Act of Reparation for the sins of the world. She reported that Jesus told her that "[w]hen you offer My Holy Wounds for sinners, you must not forget to do so for the souls in Purgatory, as there are but few who think of their relief... The Holy Wounds are the treasure of treasures for the souls in Purgatory."

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