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Blessed Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos y de Seña...

beatified in 2010, and his feast day on Nov. 29th...

is an 18th-century Spanish priest who wrote vividly of his mystical wedding to Jesus. Bernardo was 18 when he had a vision of marrying Jesus in a ceremony much like a human wedding. He described it this way:

William Hart McNichols

"Always holding my right hand...

the Lord had me occupy [bezetten] the empty throne.

Then He fitted on my finger a gold ring: 'May this ring be an earnest [onderpand] of our love. You are Mine, and I am yours. You may call yourself and sign Bernardo de Jesus. Thus, as I said to My Spouse Santa Teresa, you are Bernardo de Jesus, and I am Jesus de Bernardo. 

My honor is yours, your honor is Mine. Consider My glory that of your Spouse, I will consider yours that of My spouse. All Mine is yours, and all yours is Mine. What I am by nature, you share by grace. You and I are one!'"

from “The Visions of Bernard Francis De Hoyos sj

by Henri Bechard sj (1959)

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