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| Devotion To The Sacred Heart | |
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| Topic Started: Friday, 1. June 2007, 21:23 (122 Views) | |
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St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was in Burgunday, France, in the seventeenth century. When she was eight she was sent to a Poor Clare school following the death of her father. ,She was bedridden for five years with rheumatic fever from the age of ten to fifteen and developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. In 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial. The following year she professed. From he age of twenty, she had visions of Christ,. She had revelations over a period of one and a half years. Jesus told her he had chosen her to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart. He instructed her about the Devotions of the Nine First Fridays known as the Nine Fridays and the Holy Hour, and asked that the feast of the Sacred Heart be established. It was a struggle to convince theologians and her superiors that the visions were genuine apparitions. Eventually she was supported by her confessor, Blessed Claude La Colombiere, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, Sister Margaret Mary was appointed assistant to the convent's new superior. Later she was novice mistress and the convent began privately observing the Feast of the Sacred Heart from 1686, and two years later, a chapel was built at the Paray-le-Monial to honor the Sacred Heart. Two years later, observation of the feast of the Sacred Heart spread to other Visitation convents. Margaret Mary died on October 1670, and was canonized in 1920. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was officially recognized and approved by Pope Clement XIII in 1765. Saint Margaret Mary's Feast Day is 17th October. |
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