The Admirable
Heart of Mary

St. John Eudes
[translated by Charles Di Targiani & Ruth Hauser]

One of the most prolific ascetical writers of the 17th century, St. John Eudes was an inexhaustible reservoir of holy wisdom and devotional fervor.

The spiritual doctrine of this great apostle of devotion to the Sacred and Admirable Hearts of Jesus and Mary needs to be made more widely known, and to assist in this task, perhaps no book of his better exemplifies that profoundly incarnational doctrine than The Admirable Heart of Mary.  This is why PCP decided to assist in the reprinting of its first edition in English (printed in 1948) in 2006.

Eudes reveals to his disciples this most pure and maternal of all hearts both in its corporal and spiritual pulsations, while demonstrating with a dozen unforgettable natural and scriptural analogies, how this human heart was so inexhaustibly divinized by the one Divine Heart of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

The Admirable Heart of Mary was given to us from the Cross by Jesus Christ. Truly this heart was the first-fruit of His Passion, given to all of Mary’s children, that it might be honored, cherished, invoked and, ultimately, with that of her Son, reproduced in them. This is the essence of the spirituality of St. John Eudes.

The high-quality features of this spiritual classic demonstrates the fine attention to detail made in its reprinting: hardbound in blue cloth with embossing (not shown in the picture above, but which contains the book title and the pierced heart of Our Lady), sewn binding, a colorful dust jacket and printed endsheets, making it a book that can be cherished and used over and over again.