Claire Ferchaud

Claire Ferchaud (May 5, 1896 - January 29, 1972), in religion Sister Claire of Jesus Crucified was a French visionary and mystic, whose claims were ultimately rejected by the Catholic Church. She was linked to the Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus during World War I.

Claire Ferchaud was born a few miles from Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in the little village of Loublande, in the province of Vendée. She attended the school of the Sacred Heart and since her early childhood, she said she had had appearances from Jesus Christ, Mary (mother of Jesus) and Saint Joan of Arc. They ‘would come to meet her’ and would give her ‘messages’.

In 1916, during World War I, she lived in the convent of the ‘Rinfilières’ at Loublande, France. At that time, she claimed to have been given a vision of Christ himself, a vision of Jesus showing his heart "slashed by the sins of mankind" and crossed by a deeper wound still, atheism. She passed this on to the pastor of the town, the Abbé Audebert.

Ferchaud believed she had been appointed to undertake a mission by Christ, namely, to contact the President of France, Raymond Poincaré, beg him to convert to the right path of Christian civilization, namely Catholicism, to give a good example by rejecting Freemasonry, to display the image of the Sacred Heart on the flag of France and that of the French Army and to allow the carrying of this emblem on the uniforms of the soldiers. On all this, she claimed, would depend the victory over the enemy.

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