[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ..SPEOTATOR."1
you allow me to make the following remarks through your journal upon a letter by "A Traveller," which appeared in your last number ?
In the first place, I believe that all the promoters of pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial, whatever other objects may attract them, are agreed in regarding the fact of the establishment of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, which took its rise at Paray, as the fact -commemorated by such pilgrimages.
The vision recorded in the Life of Blessed Margaret Mary which has reference to the establishment of this Feast is not the vision referred to by your correspondent, but the vision of which Father de la Colombiere speaks at length in the "Journal of his Spiritual Retreat," made in London in the year 1677. This account is to be found in the edition published at Lyons in 1694, p. 247.
The physical character of the circumstances in connection with the vision referred to by your correspondent does not present greater difficulties than are contained in the account of visions recorded in Scripture, as in Ezekiel äi., 1-3.
As regards the expressions in the letters of Blessed Margaret Mary in reference to Louis XIV., the title given to him in the letter dated June 17, 1689, "the eldest Son of My Sacred Heart" (not as your correspondent gives it, simply "the Son of My Sacred Heart "), has reference clearly to the historical title of France as the "eldest Daughter of the Church. It is evident also from the context that the title to be borne by Louis XIV. was conditional upon his accepting the glorious mission which was proposed to him, for he was to obtain this second birth-right (" sa naissance de grace ") by the fact of his consecrating himself to the Sacred Heart (" par la consecration fera de lui-meme it mon Ccear adorable "). It was by this that he was to merit the "divine approbation."
The question relating to the " deification " of the Sacred Heart (not to speak of the full discussion of the subject in the recent numbers of the Tablet), has been already sufficiently answered in your columns by the Archbishop of Westminster and by Father
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