Louise Thérèse de Montaignac

Louise-Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance (14 May 1820 - 27 June 1885) was a French Roman Catholic who founded the pious union of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart (fr. Oblates du Coeur de Jésus) in 1874. She was known for her staunch devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the members of the union ought to renew the society "by their example and their holy lives". De Montaignac de Chauvance's life witnessed her catering to catechetical formation and promoting the Sacred Heart in France. She was beatified on 4 November 1990.

Life Louise-Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance was born in France in 1820 as the fifth of six children to Raimondo Amato and Anna de Raffin; her father worked as a civil servant. The formal introduction to the cause came on 23 December 1914 under Pope Benedict XV, granting Chauvance the title of Servant of God. The previous processes were made valid on 26 June 1923 at the discretion of the Congregation of Rites while the Positio was submitted decades later to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome in 1980. Theologians voiced approval to the cause on 30 June 1987 while the Congregation of the Saints approved it on 1 March 1998. On 28 March 1988 Louise-Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance was declared Venerable after Pope John Paul II approved her heroic virtue.

A miracle in France was validated on 26 June 1923 and received papal approval on 3 March 1990, which allowed for John Paul II to preside over her beatification on the following 4 November.