Mary Jane Zuzolo is a great-great-great niece of Sister Marie de Saint Pierre, the nineteenth-century French Carmelite who received approved revelations from Christ to initiate the Holy Face Devotion. She graduated summa cum laude, with highest distinction in philosophy and was awarded “outstanding student of philosophy” from the University of Illinois in 1991 before eventually opting for marriage and family in lieu of a doctorate in theology. She wrote the foreword for Father Carney’s The Secret of the Holy Face as well as her own recently published book by Sophia Press, Unveiling the Sixth Station of the Cross: Reparation to the Holy Face, Mother of All Devotions.
Mary Jane was the keynote speaker for the first League of Saint Martin Conference on the Holy Face and continues to give in-person talks on the devotion. She has published articles in Crisis Magazine, Latin Mass Magazine, and Aquinas Communications, and interviews of her pertaining to her book were published in LifeSiteNews and Crusade Magazine. Her book will be the basis of a forthcoming documentary on Venerable Fulton Sheen, Saint Therese of Lisieux, and Sister Marie de Saint Pierre, and her work has been the topic on multiple podcast and radio programs, including EWTN’s Miracle Hunter, Virgin Most Powerful Radio, Divine Mercy Plus, and Sensus Fidelium.
Mary Jane has spent a lifetime reading Catholic history, theology, and spirituality, as well as the lives of the Saints, and has especially researched in depth the Holy Face devotion, having been introduced to it in her youth, as a consequence of her blood relation to Sister Marie de Saint Pierre, a younger sister of her great-great-grandfather who emigrated to the United States the same year of Sister’s entry into the Carmel of Tours, France, 1839. She is motivated by a sense of urgency and passion in re-introducing the messages given by Christ to her aunt and is working to help initiate her cause for sainthood.
Her jewels in life are her husband and five children. Consequently, she has not easily decided upon writing and speaking about Reparation to the Holy Face as a second vocation. Yet it has become for her a labor of love, dutiful passion, and surprising joy, and she is very grateful for the knowledge, devotion, and friendships that she has gained in the process.
A united faith and reason brought her to this journey. They convince her that the devotion is meant ever more for our era than even when first revealed. Christ (referring to the devotion) said that the most beautiful work under the sun is about to begin and urgently requested that man take part in reparation to the Godhead for sins against his rights committed in our age. Given, according to Christ, that iniquity has never reached such a degree, God has chosen to give man in these times a role to play in the salvation of our brethren and the reclaiming in Christ, of our Church, times, and nations!
Mary Jane Zuzolo
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