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Margaret Mary Alacoque VHM (French: Marguerite-Marie Alacoque; 22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690) was a French Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.
He then invited all the faithful to consecrate themselves on the 200th anniversary of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque apparitions. [5] [6] On 25 may 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the human race and wrote an Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Annum sacrum.
The Sacred Heart became a popular worldwide devotion in large part due to the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque, who lived and died at the monastery next to the basilica. [ 2 ] The church was built in the 12th century by Hugues de Semur, the most important of the Abbots of Cluny , on the site of a 10th-century monastery founded by count Lambert ...
The most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in the form it is known today was Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), a nun of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, who claimed to have received Sacred Heart revelations from Jesus Christ between 1673 and 1675 in the Burgundian French village of Paray-le-Monial.
In this way he came to know Margaret Mary Alacoque. [2] The curiosity of such a promising preacher having been assigned to this remote location has led to the supposition that his superiors had her in mind in making this assignment. The disbelief of the other religious sisters of her monastery left Alocoque anxious and uncertain. [1]
St. Margaret Mary Church (Omaha) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church .
This is a depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Catholic visionary Margaret Mary Alacoque. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation Sister in Paray-le-Monial, France, claimed to have experienced visions of Jesus Christ during which he showed her his Sacred Heart. On 2 March 1686, she wrote to her Superior, Mother Saumaise, that the Jesus wished ...
Between 1673 and 1675, most probably 1674, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque stated that she had a vision of the Sacred Heart of Jesus before the Blessed Sacrament in which she was instructed to spend an hour lying prostrate with her face to the ground every Thursday night, between eleven and midnight, and to pray and meditate on the agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.