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The saints

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

A sick, doubted French nun to whom Jesus showed His Heart.

Feast: 16 October · 1647 to 1690 · Reformation and missions · Paray-le-Monial, France

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Painting of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in a black veil, holding an image of the Sacred Heart.

Unknown author. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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The Visitation convent of Paray-le-Monial, 1673

Margaret Mary was sickly as a child and joined the Visitation Sisters at Paray-le-Monial.1

Her sisters thought her odd, and her superiors doubted her.1

Jesus appeared to her and showed her His Heart, burning with love for people who ignored Him.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers her as the apostle of the Sacred Heart.

01St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

The Sacred Heart

He asked for Holy Communion on the first Friday of each month and a feast of the Sacred Heart.1

A Jesuit, St. Claude de la Colombière, believed her, and the devotion spread through the whole Church.1

Live it this week

Keep a First Friday

Jesus asked Margaret Mary for Communion on First Fridays. Find out when your parish has Mass on the next First Friday and go, and go to confession before it if you can.

Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

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