The daughter of a count, Maria Droste zu Vischering was born in Germany on the Nativity of Mary in 1863. After she tamed her explosive childhood temper, at 15 she entered a school run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and she began to develop an intense love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She started having mystical experiences and heard Jesus speak t…
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