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Claude La Colombière SJ was a French Jesuit priest best known as the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
On the 16th of June 1929 Pope Pius XI beatified Claude La Colombière, whose charism, according to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, was that of bringing souls to God along the gospel way of love and mercy which Christ revealed to us.
Claude La Colombière (1641-1682) enjoyed an intense, if brief, life, notable for the part he played as champion of the devotion to the Sacred Heart. He is remembered principally as the spiritual director who recognized the truth of the revelation that St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received; he also showed heroic virtue in enduring imprisonment ...
St. Claude La Colombière (born February 2, 1641, Saint-Symphorien-d’Ozon, France—died February 15, 1682, Paray-le-Monial; beatified June 16, 1929; canonized May 31, 1992; feast day February 15) was a French Jesuit priest who assisted St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in establishing the devotion to the Sacred Heart.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 31, 1992 · What can we learn from Saint Claude La Colombière? Saint Claude La Colombière, the “faithful servant and perfect friend” of Jesus Christ, who reassured Marguerite-Marie and her superior. A few days after his solemn vows, Claude La Colombière was sent to Paray-le-Monial in 1675 by his Jesuit community.
St. Claude Colombière, SJ, was a French priest in the late 1600s. He was a man of prayer, a good spiritual director and a fine preacher. After working at a small parish in France, he got his big break: He was sent to London to be chaplain to the Duchess of York.
Claude de la Colombiere is best known for his association with St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the devotion of the Sacred Heart, but his life has its own drama.
