Prayer to the shoulder wound of Jesus

This Roman Catholic prayer is variously attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux or to St. Gertrude or St. Mechtilde. In English: According to St. Bernard, he asked Jesus which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and the wound that inflicted the most pain on Him in Calvary and Jesus answered: In the twelfth century Pope Eugenius III approved of the promises with regards to this prayer . The modern version of the prayer bears the imprimatur of ... more

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