Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche lived from 1868-1915. She entered the Visitation convent in 1890 at Romans, France and is the artist of the Picture of Jesus Merciful painting, which she transcribed after an interior vision. She wrote her Autobiography from 1904-1905 as ordered by Father Alfred Charrier, her spiritual director. She was named superior of her convent two years later and retained the position until 1913. In 1914, Advised by the Congregation for Religious in Rome, she founded a new religious community in Vische (TO), which had as its purpose prayer and self-sacrifice for the Church and the priesthood. Mother Louise Claret is the author of The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood. She died in Vische on the fourteenth of May, 1915. On June 26, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI approved the decree of heroic virtue of the Servant of God, Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche, presented by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.