Saint Apparition Question

[ConMan]

I heard a story of a saint that appeared to her fellow religious sister after she had died and said that she would return to earth and suffer a life of pain until the end of time if she could receive the glory that God gave in reward for a single Hail Mary in exchange.

Does anyone know who this saint is?

Thanks in advance!

 

[pianistclare]

Sounds like a combination of several stories.
Where did you hear this?

 

[TheOldColonel]

I’m not familiar with Saint Apparition.

 

[misstherese]

I have also heard this but can’t remember the source.

 

[stpurl]

saint that appeared to her fellow religious sister after she had died and said that she would return to earth and suffer a life of pain until the end of time if she could receive the glory that God gave in reward for a single Hail Mary in exchange.

I just Googled this and found Of all the prayers of the Rosary, I personally beli
eve the Hail Mary is the most
powerful. Tradition has proved this belief. When
St. Teresa of Avila died, about week
later she appeared to the nuns in her convent respl
endent in glory. She then proceeded
to the nuns that if she could come back to earth, w
hich she added she could not, but if
she could she would gladly endure of all the pains
of the world till the end of the world,
just to merit the additional degree of glory for sa
ying one devout Hail Mary.

It was in a PDF file by a Catherine Moran, Ph.D, titled "Praying the Rosary with the Saints.’

 

[JamalChristophr]

Sounds like something Saint Gertrude the Great could have said.

But is just a stab in the dark.

 

[midori]

Was that the bit where it was saying something about “even just the merits of one Hail Mary, inattentively prayed” or something?

–edit–

Found it.

Blessed Alan says that a nun who had always had a great devotion to the Holy Rosary appeared after death to one of her sisters in religion and said to her: “If I were allowed to go back into my body, to have the chance of saying just one single Hail Mary - even if I said it quickly and without great fervor - I would gladly go through the sufferings that I had during my last illness all over again, in order to gain the merit of this prayer.” (Blessed Alan de la Roche, De Dignitate Psalterii, Chapter LXIX) This is all the more compelling because she had been bedridden and had suffered agonizing pains for several years before she died.

From St. Louis de Montfort’s “The Secrets of the Rosary.”