Margaret mary alacoque

16 October is the feast of St Margaret Mary Alacoque, a 17th-century sister who joined the Visitation Sisters at Paray-le-Monial. She made rapid progress along the way of perfection and was given mystical visions, as a result of which she worked hard to institute devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Church. This fresco is in the church of Madonna del Sacro Cuore, which is off the Piazza Navona in Rome.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, nun of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary, apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, born at Lhautecour, France, 22 July, 1647; died at Paray-le-Monial, 17 October, 1690. Please pray for vocations to this order.

"He disclosed to me the marvels of His Love and the inexplicable secrets of His Sacred Heart..."

Jesus appears to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque saying that men's ingratitude towards his sacred heart is morepainfull to him than his dolorous passion on calvary. R Bérubé

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