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in your goodness, as we venture to draw back the curtain of a hundred years and more; let us ask you to help us in reconstructing the scenes wherein Madame Elizabeth of France moved as an angel of mercy; for we cannot forget that she was an Apostle of the Sacred Heart, and that is was in the darkest hour of the Reign of Terror her pure hand wrote out, as the document itself proves, the most beautiful of the many consecrations to the Heart of Jesus. She proclaimed its Love as the true reconciling of lofty and lowly, the true bond of equality, the true regeneration of the nations, and the one great Centre of Charity.

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