Mystic of the Holy Wounds: The Life and Revelations of Sister Mary Martha Chambon

by Visitation Sisters of Chambéry, Dominique Castellan (Foreword), Ryan P. Plummer (Translator)

Sister Mary Martha Chambon (1841-1907) was a religious of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France, to whom Jesus Christ revealed the powerful treasures of devotion to His Sacred Wounds. It was to her that Our Lord taught two prayers invoking the Holy Wounds which the Catholic Church subsequently approved for recitation by the faithful. Although Sister Mary Martha’s extraordinary gifts of grace were unknown, while alive, to the outside world, and even to most of the sisters within her community, this victim soul’s life was immersed in the continuous apparitions and messages from Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Saints of Heaven; communications with the Holy Souls in Purgatory; the bearing of the stigmata; feeding only on the Holy Eucharist for years at a time; attacks from the devil; miraculous answers to prayer; infused knowledge of hidden and far-off events; and prophecies which arguably pertain to the unprecedented crisis we are witnessing in the Church today. In obedience to the priests serving as spiritual directors to the Visitation of Chambéry, and in accordance with the express wishes of Our Lord Himself, the Mother Superiors of the illiterate Sister Mary Martha diligently wrote down the divine messages relayed to their daughter and the miraculous happenings surrounding her person. The details they compiled form the basis for this book and aim to fulfill the following words Jesus spoke to Sister Mary “Your path is to make Me known and loved, especially in the future.”

Genres: Biography

305 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2019

Reviews

[booklady · Rating 5 out of 5]

You know how you never hear about something and then you start seeing it everywhere? Well, I can't say I have started seeing the Devotion to the Holy Wounds everywhere, but just the other day I downloaded a new free app for my phone to be able to pray the Rosary in my car and what did I find but the Chaplet to the Holy Wounds?! Not even the Chaplet to St. Michael or the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows, both much better-known devotions.

This is an excellent hagiography about a Visitation sister, Mary Martha Chambon, who lived at the turn of the last century and in many respects foreshadowed St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska, although Sr. Chambon lived longer, and her revelations have never gained so much popularity. Hopefully with more people reading this book, that will change.

Although it was hagiography, it was not overdone. I was inspired, rather than put off by the religiosity of this simple little nun. She was not perfect by any means and Jesus frequently chastised her, but in her beautiful humility she took it so well. That was what made her such an inspiration to me and was the overall redeeming feature of the book. What she had to suffer for the Holy Wounds, was difficult to read about. Jesus asked a lot of her, and she said yes.

A book to read and ponder and pray over.

[Robert Means · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

Beautiful story of how God works thru chosen souls for the benefit of others! Truly inspirational to look interior at oneself to change one's ways to draw closer to God.

[Janet Silvester · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have just started reading it. I always enjoy reading biography of Saints or Sisters so I know I will like this book!