St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
1647 - 1690
Daughter of Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn, Margaret was born on July 22, at L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France, was sent to the Poor Clares school at Charolles on the death of her father, a notary, when she was eight years old. She was bedridden for five years with rheumatic fever until she was fifteen and early developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She refused marriage, and in 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial and was professed the next year. From the time she was twenty, she experienced visions of Christ, and on December 27, 1673, she began a series of revelations that were to continue over the next year and a half. In them Christ informed her that she was His chosen instrument to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart, instructed her in a devotion that was to become known as the Nine Fridays and the Holy Hour, and asked that the feast of the Sacred Heart be established. Rebuffed by her superior, Mother de Saumaise, in her efforts to follow the instruction she had received in the visions, she eventually won her over but was unable to convince a group of theologians of the validity of her apparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of her community. She received the support of Blessed Claude La Colombiere, the community's confessor for a time, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, opposition in the community ended when Mother Melin was elected Superior and named Margaret Mary her assistant. She later became Novice Mistress, saw the convent observe the feast of the Sacred Heart privately beginning in 1686, and two years later, a chapel was built at the Paray-le-Monial to honor the Sacred Heart; soon observation of the feast of the Sacred Heart spread to other Visitation convents. Margaret Mary died at the Paray-le-Monial on October 17, and was canonized in 1920. She, St. John Eudes, and Blessed Claude La Colombiere are called the "Saints of the Sacred Heart"; the devotion was officially recognized and approved by Pope Clement XIII in 1765, seventy-five years after her death. Her feast day is observed on October 17.
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Needs more info and too boring but great work and effort!
St margreat mary is the best saint on earth. i have a paper on her and this is a great site to look at! thnks
im doing a project about a saint. could you please add more info? I found this very helpful, but it needs more. thank you! :)
happy feast day St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. thank you for protecting us in our visit to paray le monial. please continue to help my mom and i.
i cant find anything about her contributions to society
i need the writer 'cause im doing a research paper and i need a source
My mother died in 2000 and she left a glass frame. In it there is a cloth with a heart on it. On top it says Agnus Del. On the bottom it says Relic of St. Margaret Mary,Gospel of the Holy Name, Gospel of St. John. The heart has like a fire on top with a cross in it and it also has like a thorn like reef around it and blood drops falling from it. Is this a real relic. It looks old.
Periodically through out time Jesus appears to the various members of the Human Race to remind them of his love for us and how he wants us to come to Heaven to be with him. What a disgrace that not many people can't even give him a thought or the time of day to thank him for what he does for us on a day to day basis.
Periodically through out time Jesus appears to the various members of the Human Race to remind them of his love for us and how he wants us to come to Heaven to be with him. What a disgrace that not many people can't even give him a thought or the time of day to thank him for what he does for us oj a day to day basis.
this wedcite has helped me so much that i had to book a report on a girl saint and it helped me and i got an aplus on it.me and my mom was so happy about it
some of thies saints were on my exam thanks for the help
The information was helpful. I met an older lady who told me of the "12 promises of St. Margaret Mary" and I was looking for the actual facts. She included hanging a picture of the Sacred Heart in your home. Still looking for more ...Any ideas???
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you know this was very helpful and i now want to change my way of life. St. Margaret Mary is a lovely person. Just wondering if you would like to hang out margaret mary if so just call me with the details so i can set everything upp
very helpfull for my group we actualy wanted her to be our petro saint for the girls group we were groom
Wish you had some pictures of the saints documented on your website
very helpful for my research project and it enlightens me to slowly change my way of life. because i had meditated on what God had told her" behold the heart which has so much loved men that it has spared nothing" and now on i wanna be the one spared
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