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St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Saint Margaret Mary, the fifth of seven children, was born on July 22, 1647, at Llautecour, a small hamlet in the Burgundy valley of France. Her father was a judge, and his brother a Priest, so the name Alacoque was one of the best known and respected in the town.

Choosing Christ at a Young Age

When Margaret was four years old she was sent to live for a time with her godmother, who resided three miles distant, and who was wealthy and childless. The change of scene developed in Margaret all the qualities which afterwards made our Divine Lord choose her as the humble recipient of His intimate revelations. At the age of seven, Margaret made a vow of perpetual chastity. For hours she would kneel, praying. “I was constantly urged”, she says, “to repeat these words, the sense of which I did not understand”: ‘My God, I consecrate to Thee my purity! My God, I make to Thee a vow of perpetual chastity.”

Whilst she did not know what the words vow and chastity signified, she understood they meant the complete gift of herself to God. The following year, upon the death of her godmother, Margaret returned to her father’s home. A few months later he died and left his earthly affairs in a most wretched state. Margaret was then sent to a school of the Poor Clares at Charolles, where she was prepared to make her First Holy Communion, and where she was also Confirmed. She soon realized that the religious life was what God desired of her.

A very serious illness curtailed her school life, and the child was taken home to her mother. No cure could be found for her malady until they offered her to the Blessed Virgin, promising that if she were cured she “should someday be one of her daughters”. After four years of suffering, Margaret’s health was restored. The crosses she had to bear were heavy, but her love of prayer and of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament consoled and strengthened her. She often spent the night in prayer, and practiced many austerities.

Seeing Jesus

Margaret, now seventeen, was much noticed and sought after. Scarcely had she beheld the world smiling upon her, when she began to adorn herself to please it and to amuse herself as much as possible for four years. But God. Who had great designs for Margaret, watched over her and preserved her from all sin. “One day”, she relates, “after Holy Communion He made me see that He is the most beautiful, the richest, most powerful, most perfect and accomplished of all lovers. Being promised to Him, whence came it, He asked, that I desired to break with Him? Oh, remember’, said He, if thou dost contemn Me, I shall abandon thee forever; but if thou art faithful to Me, I will not forsake thee….”

Shedding abundant tears, Margaret renewed her vow of chastity, and resolved “rather to die than violate it”. She told her family of her resolution, and implored them to dismiss every aspirant for her hand. On June 25, 1671, Margaret, then twenty-four years of age entered the Visitation Convent of Paray-le-Monial. It was there that she received from Our Lord the mission to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart. During one of His visitations, Jesus said to her: “Behold this Heart which has so loved men that It has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love. In return I receive from the greater part of men only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Love….”

In the beginning St. Margaret Mary experienced many difficulties and considerable opposition, but with the as sistance of Father de la Colombiere of the Society of Jesus, she was able to overcome them. It was he who was to be God’s instrument for instituting the Feast of the Sacred Heart, and for spreading that devotion throughout the world. St. Margaret Mary died on October 17, 1690, and was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Rosary
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