Mary of Saint Peter

[2] On 8 August 1843 Pope Gregory XVI promulgated a papal brief for the erection of a confraternity under the patronage of Louis IX of France for the reparation of blasphemy against the Holy Name of God.

[4] She invariably declared that these "communications" were neither visions, nor apparitions; that the truths shown her were not exhibited under an eternal form, nor did she physically hear what she was commissioned to relate.

[7] According to Marie of Saint Peter, Jesus told her that he desired devotion to his Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy, which he described as being like a "poisoned arrow."

Almost 50 years later, another French Discalced Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux wrote a number of poems and prayers in the 1890s that also helped spread the devotion to the Holy Face.

"The Golden Arrow prayer" is based on reports of interior conversations of Jesus by Mary of Saint Peter, of the Carmel of Tours, in 1843.

On March 16, 1844, Jesus reportedly told Mary: "Oh if you only knew what great merit you acquire by saying even once, Admirable is the Name of God, in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy."

He called this prayer the "Golden Arrow", saying that those who would recite it would pierce him delightfully, and also heal those other wounds inflicted on him by the malice of sinners.

Mary of Saint Peter saw, "streaming from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, delightfully wounded by this 'Golden Arrow,' torrents of graces for the conversion of sinners".