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|feast_day=October 16 (October 17 by the [[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary]] and universally prior to 1969; transferred to Oct 20 in Canada)
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|image=Marguerite-Marie Alacoque.jpg
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|caption= Portrait of Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque
|birth_place=[[Verosvres|L'Hautecour]], [[Duchy of Burgundy]], [[Kingdom of France]]
|death_place=[[Paray-le-Monial]], Duchy of Burgundy, Kingdom of France
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|beatified_by=[[Pope Pius IX]]
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'''Margaret Mary Alacoque''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary|VSM]]}} ({{langx|fr|Marguerite-Marie Alacoque}}; 22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690) was a French [[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary|Visitation]] nun and [[mysticism|mystic]] who promoted [[Catholic devotions|devotion]] to the [[Sacred Heart|Sacred Heart of Jesus]] in its modern form.

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
[[File:Blason Famille Alacoque.svg|155px|left|Blason de la famille Alacoque.]]

Alacoque was born in 1647 in [[Hautecour, Jura|L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France]], now part of the [[commune in France|commune]] of [[Verosvres]], then in the [[Duchy of Burgundy]]. She was the fifth of seven children, and the only daughter of Claude and Philiberte Lamyn Alacoque.<ref name="CathEnc">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09653a.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque|website=www.newadvent.org|access-date=2017-06-23}}</ref> Her father was a well-to-do notary. Her godmother was the Countess of Corcheval. Margaret was described as showing intense love for the Blessed Sacrament from early childhood.

When Margaret was eight years old, her father died of pneumonia. She was sent to a convent school run by the [[Poor Clares]] in Charolles, where she made her [[First Communion]] at the age of nine. She later contracted [[rheumatic fever]] which confined her to bed for four years. At the end of this period, having made a vow to the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] to consecrate herself to religious life, she was instantly restored to perfect health.<ref name=" CathEnc" /> In recognition of this favor, she added the name "Mary" to her baptismal name of Margaret. According to her later account of her life, she had [[visions of Jesus Christ]], which she thought were a normal part of human experience, and continued to practice austerity.

With the death of Alacoque's father, the family's assets were held by an uncle who refused to hand them over, plunging her family into poverty. During this time, her only consolation was frequent visits to pray before the Blessed Sacrament in the local church. When she was 17, however, her brother came of age, took undisputed possession of the home and things improved. Her mother encouraged her to socialize, in the hopes of her finding a suitable husband. Out of obedience, and believing that her childhood vow was no longer binding, she began to accompany her brothers in the social events, attending dances and balls.<ref name="CathEnc" />

One night, after returning home from a ball for [[Carnival]] dressed in her finery, she experienced a vision of Christ, scourged and bloody. He reproached her for her forgetfulness of him; yet he also reassured her by demonstrating that his heart was filled with love for her, because of the childhood promise she had made to his Blessed Mother. As a result, she determined to fulfill her vow and entered, when almost 24 years of age, the [[Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary|Visitation]] Convent at [[Paray-le-Monial]] on 25 May 1671, intending to become a nun.<ref name=" CathEnc" />

=== Monastic life ===
[[File:San Michele Santa Margherita Maria Alacoque2.jpg|thumb|280px|Jesus Christ appearing to St. Margaret Mary, Church of San Michele, [[Cortemilia]], [[Italy]]]]
[[File:La Visione del Cuore di Gesù di S.Margherita Maria Alacoque.jpg|thumb|right|''The Vision of the Heart of Jesus by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque'' by unknown artist]]

Alacoque was subjected to many trials to prove the genuineness of her vocation. She was admitted to wearing the [[religious habit]] on 25 August 1671, but was not allowed to make her religious profession on the same date of the following year, which would have been the usual course.<ref>[[Émile Bougaud]]: ''The Life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque'' (TAN Books  1990 {{ISBN|0-89555-297-3}}), pp. 94-102</ref> A fellow novice described Margaret Mary as humble, simple and frank, but above all kind and patient.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque/|title=Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque|last=|first=|date=2016-10-16|website=Franciscan Media|access-date=2017-06-23}}</ref> She was finally admitted to profession on 6 November 1672. It is said that she was assigned to the infirmary and was not very skillful at her tasks.<ref name=crawley>[http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/MARGMARY.HTM ''Lives of Saints'', John J. Crawley & Co., Inc.]</ref>

=== Visions ===
At the monastery, Alacoque reportedly received several apparitions and [[private revelation]]s of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] between 27 December 1673 and June 1675. Among other things, these visions revealed to her different forms of devotion to the [[Sacred Heart]].

On 27 December 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary said that Jesus had permitted her to rest her head upon his heart, and then disclosed to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of his goodness, and that he had chosen her for this work.

Between 1674 and 1675, other apparitions followed. From the second apparition onwards, a theme of [[sadness]] was present in her visions:{{quote|"Jesus spoke of the sadness he feels because his great love for humanity receives in exchange "nothing but ingratitude and indifference", "coldness and contempt". And this, he added, "is more grievous to me than all that I endured in my [[Passion of Jesus|Passion]]".<ref>''Autobiography'' of Margaret Mary Alacoque, n. 55, quoted by [[Pope Francis]] in [https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.pdf Dilexit nos], paragraph 165, published on 24 October 2024, accessed on 6 March 2025</ref>}}The apparitions also revealed practices expressing the devotion to the Sacred Heart. The [[First Fridays Devotion]], which is the reception of [[Holy Communion]] on nine first Fridays of each month as an act of reparation, was asked to Margaret Mary and a "Great Promise" was given to those who accomplish it: "I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who shall receive communion on the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penance; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their sacraments; My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Marguerite Marie |url=http://archive.org/details/vieetoeuvre01alac |title=Vie et oeuvres|lang=fr|date=1915 |publisher=Paris : Poussielgue |others=Kelly - University of Toronto |pages=261}}</ref> In an other vision, Margaret Mary also stated that she was instructed to spend an hour every Thursday night in prayer and meditation on Jesus' [[Agony in the Garden]] of [[Gethsemane]] : "and on each night of Thursday to Friday, I will make you participate in the mortal sadness that I have accepted to feel in the Garden of Olives, (...), you will get up from eleven until midnight, to prostrate yourself during an hour with Me...".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Marguerite Marie |url=http://archive.org/details/vieetoeuvre02alac |title=Vie et oeuvres|lang=fr|date=1915 |publisher=Paris : Poussielgue |others=Kelly - University of Toronto |pages=72}}</ref> That practice later became widespread among Catholics, known as the [[Holy Hour]], also frequently performed during an hour of [[Eucharistic adoration]] on Thursdays.<ref name="Oxford">Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 {{ISBN|978-0-19-280290-3}}): article ''Margaret Mary Alacoque, St''</ref><ref>''The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality'' by Gordon S. Wakefield 1983 {{ISBN|0-664-22170-X}} page 347</ref>

Between 13 and 20 June 1675, she had a vision of Jesus in which he asked her "that the first Friday after the octave of the [[Feast of Corpus Christi|Blessed Sacrament]] be dedicated to a particular feast to honor my heart, by receiving communion on that day and making [[Acts of reparation|reparation]] to it by honorable amends..."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Marguerite Marie |url=http://archive.org/details/vieetoeuvre02alac |title=Vie et oeuvres|lang=fr|date=1915 |publisher=Paris : Poussielgue |others=Kelly - University of Toronto |pages=102}}</ref> That vision later led to the institution of the [[Feast of the Sacred Heart]], which is now a [[solemnity]] in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, celebrated eight days after the [[Feast of Corpus Christi]].<ref>Ann Ball, 2003 Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices {{ISBN|0-87973-910-X}} page 240</ref>

On 16 June 1675, Alacoque reported three specific requests for France, directly from her spiritual talks.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sainte Marguerite–Marie Alacoque – Sa vie par elle-même – Life by herself|last=Marguerite–Marie Alacoque|publisher=Saint-Paul|year=1993|isbn=2-85049-153-5|location=Paris-Fribourg}}</ref> These would have political and religious repercussions and would successively be realized under the royal, imperial and republican French regimes:<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Le Sacré-Cœur et la Grande Guerre|last=Alain Denizot|year=1994|isbn=2-7233-0489-2|location=Paris}}</ref>

# The first message was addressed to kings: "He desires to enter pompously and magnificently into the house of princes and kings, to be honored, as much as he has been outraged, despised and humiliated in his passion ... that the adorable Heart of his divine Son was received ... to establish his empire in the heart of our Great Monarch, from which he wants to serve for the execution of his designs."
#The second message was: "to build a building where the painting of this divine Heart will be, to receive the consecration and the homage of the King and of the whole court ..."
# The third message asked the King: "to be painted on his standards and engraved on his weapons to make him victorious over all his enemies, by bringing down at his feet the proud and superb heads, in order to make him triumphant to all the enemies of the Holy Church".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://salve-regina.com/index.php?title=Histoire_du_Sacr%C3%A9_Coeur|title=History of Sacred Heart|last=Alain Denizot|date=1994}}</ref> 
Initially discouraged in her efforts to follow the instruction she had received in her visions, Alacoque was eventually able to convince her superior, Mother de Saumaise, of the authenticity of her visions. She was unable, however, to convince a Benedictine and a Jesuit, whom Saumaise had consulted. Nor was she any more successful with many of the members of her own community.[[File:Saint Rose Church (Perrysburg, Ohio) - vault fresco, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.jpg|thumb|right|Saint Rose Church (Perrysburg, Ohio) - vault fresco]]

Sometime around 1681, Alacoque felt compelled to write a personal testament, passionately donating her life completely to Jesus with her own blood. With the permission of her superior she used a pocket knife to carve the name of Jesus into her breast and used the blood to sign the document. The following account recalls this event:

{{blockquote|She herself wrote out the donation, and signed this humble formula: ''{{'}}Sister Peronne-Rosalie Greyfie, at present Superioress, and for whom Sister Margaret Mary daily asks conversion with the grace of final penitence.{{'}}'' This done, Sister Margaret Mary implored Mother Greyfie to allow her, in turn, to sign, but with her blood. The Mother having assented, Sister Margaret Mary went to her cell, bared her breast, and, imitating her illustrious and saintly foundress, cut with a knife the name of Jesus above her heart. From the blood that flowed from the wound she signed the act in these words: ''{{'}}Sister Margaret Mary, Disciple of the Divine Heart of the Adorable Jesus{{'}}''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/revelationsofthe00bouguoft/#page/n7/mode/2up/search/knife|title=Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Blessed Margaret Mary and the History of Her Life|last=Monseigneur Bougaud|publisher=Benziger Brothers|year=1890|location=New York|pages=209, 210}}</ref>}}

Upset by the fact that the wounds which she had cut into her breast were beginning to fade, she attempted to reopen the original wounds on more than one occasion using a knife. But, having failed to open them to her liking, she decided to burn her chest with fire. This incident placed her in the infirmary: "Trembling and humbled, she went to acknowledge her fault. Mother Greyfie, true to her custom, apparently paid little attention to what Margaret said, but ordered her in a few dry words to go to the infirmary and show her wound to Sister Augustine Marest, who would dress it."<ref name=":1" />

[[File:Châsse de Marguerite-Marie Alacoque.jpg|thumb|left|Shrine of Marguerite-Marie Alacoque in the chapel of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial]]
She eventually received the support of [[Claude de la Colombière]], the community's [[confessor]] for a time, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, opposition in the community ended when Mother Melin was elected Superior and named Margaret Mary her assistant. She later became [[Master of novices|Novice Mistress]],<ref name=crawley/> and saw the monastery observe the Feast of the Sacred Heart privately, beginning in 1686. Two years later, a chapel was built at [[Paray-le-Monial]] to honor the Sacred Heart. Observation of the feast of the Sacred Heart spread to other Visitation convents.<ref>[https://www.catholicireland.net/saintoftheday/st-margaret-mary-alacoque-1647-90-visionary/ Duffy, Patrick. "Oct 16 – St Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–90) visionary", ''Catholic Ireland'', October 16, 2012]</ref>

In 1689, Alacoque received a private request from Jesus to urge the King of France, [[Louis XIV]], to [[Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus|consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart]], so that he may be "triumphant over all the enemies of the Holy Church". [[Henri Ghéon]] alludes to a letter she sent to Louis XIV, but notes that "either [he] never received the letter or he refused to reply".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/secret-of-saint-margaret-mary-5829|last=Gheon|first=Henri|title=The Secret of Saint Margaret Mary|publisher=Sheed and Ward|year=1963|access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref> Louis XIV grandson, Louis XVI, had vowed to publicly consecrate himself to the Sacred Heart when he was restored to power, but he and his wife, [[Marie Antoinette]], were executed by guillotine in 1793 before he could do so.<ref>[https://www.milesjesu.org/consecration-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/#:~:text=Louis%20had%20vowed%20to%20make,the%20Immaculate%20Heart%20of%20Mary.%E2%80%9D Miles Jesu]</ref>

Alacoque died on 17 October 1690.

== Veneration ==
[[File:HerzJesu mit Droste zu Vischering und MMA.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Mary of the Divine Heart|Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart]] and St. Margarette Mary Alacoque adoring the [[Sacred Heart of Jesus]]]]
[[File:Margaret Mary Alacoque window, Clonmel.jpg|thumb|Stained glass image of Mary Alacoque in [[Clonmel]], Ireland]]
After Alacoque's death, the devotion to the Sacred Heart was fostered by the [[Jesuits]] even as it remained controversial within the Catholic Church. The practice was not officially recognized for 75 years.<ref name="Oxford"/> The discussion of Alacoque's own mission and qualities continued for years. All her actions, her [[revelation]]s, her spiritual [[Maxim (philosophy)|maxims]], her teachings regarding the devotion to the Sacred Heart, of which she was the chief exponent as well as the [[apostle]], were subjected to the most severe and minute examination.

The [[Sacred Congregation of Rites]] eventually voted favorably and [[Pope Leo XII]] pronounced her [[Venerable]] on 30 March 1824, introducing a cause for her [[canonization]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Margaret Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/vieetrvlationsde00alac/page/200/mode/2up |title=Vie et révélations de Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque |date=1920 |publisher=Librairie Saint-Paul |others=Boston College |location=Paris |pages=200 |language=fr |trans-title=Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque}}</ref>

Six years later, [[Commissary Apostolic|Commissaries Apostolic]] were sent to [[Paray-le-Monial]] by the [[Holy See]] to inspect the [[Heroic virtue|virtues]] of the venerable Alacoque. The Commissaries desired to open her tomb in order to authenticate her remains. When Alacoque's tomb was opened in July 1830, they discovered that her brain had been preserved from [[Incorruptibility|corruption]], 140 years after her death. Four doctors recorded the miracle in a report and two instantaneous cures were also recorded by the Commissaries. The examination of Alacoque's virtues and writings lasted 14 years.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Margaret Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/vieetrvlationsde00alac/page/200/mode/2up |title=Vie et révélations de Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque |date=1920 |publisher=Librairie Saint-Paul |others=Boston College |location=Paris, France |pages=201 |language=fr |trans-title=Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque}}</ref> Nowadays, her body rests above the side altar in the Chapel of the Apparitions, located at the Visitation Monastery in [[Paray-le-Monial]], which draws pilgrims from all parts of the world.<ref name="CathEnc" />

On 23 August 1846, [[Pope Pius IX]] officially declared her [[heroic virtue]]s, granting her the title "Servant of God".<ref name=":2" />

On 18 September 1864, Pope Pius IX declared her [[Beatification|Blessed]]. Another tomb opening was done for the process and her brain was still discovered showing signs of [[incorruptibility]], 174 years after her death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Margaret Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/vieetrvlationsde00alac/page/202/mode/2up |title=Vie et révélations de Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque |date=1920 |publisher=Librairie Saint-Paul |others=Boston College |location=Paris, France |pages=202 |language=fr |trans-title=Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque}}</ref>

Alacoque was [[Canonization|canonized]] by [[Pope Benedict XV]] on 13 May 1920. The two miracles attributed to Alacoque's intercession that are required for the canonization approval were Louise Agostini-Coleshi's instant and complete cure of chronic [[Transverse myelitis|transverse meningo-myelitis]], and Countess Antonia Artorri's instant and complete cure of right [[Thyroid cancer|papillary cancer]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alacoque |first=Margaret Mary Alacoque |url=https://archive.org/details/vieetrvlationsde00alac/page/206/mode/2up |title=Vie et révélations de Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque |date=1920 |publisher=Librairie Saint-Paul |others=Boston College |location=Paris, France |pages=206 |language=fr |trans-title=Life and Revelations of Margaret Mary Alacoque}}</ref> The Pope also inserted the "Great Promise" of the [[First Fridays Devotion]] into the [[Canonization|Bull of her Canonization]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1920 |title=Acta Apostolicæ Sedis 1920 |url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-12-1920-ocr.pdf |website=vatican.va |publisher=The Holy See |place=Vatican |page=503}}</ref>

In his 1928 [[encyclical]] ''[[Miserentissimus Redemptor]]'', [[Pope Pius XI]] affirmed the Catholic Church's position regarding the credibility of her [[Visions of Jesus and Mary|visions of Jesus Christ]] by speaking of Jesus as having "manifested Himself" to Alacoque and having "promised her that all those who rendered this honour to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces".<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280508_miserentissimus-redemptor.html Encyclical ''Miserentissimus Redemptor''] of [[Pope Pius XI]]</ref>

In 1929 her [[liturgy|liturgical]] commemoration was included in the [[General Roman calendar]] for celebration on 17&nbsp;October, the day of her death. During the reforms of 1969, the feast day was moved to 16 October. It is an optional memorial in the United States.<ref>[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/1016-memorial-margaret-mary-alacoque.cfm "Optional Memorial of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin", USCCB]</ref>

Alacoque's short devotional work, ''La Devotion au Sacré-Coeur de Jesus'' (Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus), was published posthumously by J. Croiset in 1698 and has been popular among [[Catholic Church|Catholics]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

On the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia there are two flower festivals supported by their respective Societies. Each society has a patron saint on whose feast day the grande fete is celebrated. For the Roses it is the feast of St. Rose of Lima on 30 August; and for the Marguerites it is that of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, 17 October.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.stlucia.gov.lc/saint_lucia/the_flower_festivals_la_rose_and_la_marguerite.htm
|title=The National Flower Festivals: La Rose and La Marguerite}}</ref>

== Quote ==
{{The Sacred Heart}}{{Christian mysticism}}{{Blockquote|text=And He [Christ] showed me that it was His great desire of being loved by men and of withdrawing them from the path of ruin that made Him want to manifest His Heart to men, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace, of sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order that those who desire to render Him and procure Him all the honour and love possible might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which His heart is the source.|sign=|source= from Revelations of Our Lord to St. Mary Margaret Alacoque}}

== In popular culture ==
The {{lang|es|[[detente bala]]}} amulet used by Spanish soldiers is said to derive from Alacoque's emblems.<ref name="Príncipe">{{cite news |title=El Regimiento "Príncipe" n.º 3 se presenta a su Patrona |url=https://ejercito.defensa.gob.es/unidades/Asturias/ril3/Noticias/2018/ril3_2018_10_005.html |access-date=10 December 2020 |work=ejercito.defensa.gob.es |publisher=Regimiento de Infantería 'Principe' nº 3 |date=24 October 2018 |language=es}}</ref>

In [[James Joyce]]'s short story "[[Eveline (short story)|Eveline]]", in his book ''[[Dubliners]],'' a "coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque" is mentioned as part of the decorations of an Irish home at the turn of the 20th century, testifying to Joyce's fine eye for the details of Irish Catholic piety.<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486736. Torchiana, Donald T. "Joyce’s ‘Eveline’ and the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque". ''James Joyce Quarterly'', vol. 6, no. 1, 1968, pp. 22–28. JSTOR]</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Saint Julie Billiart Catholic Church (Hamilton, Ohio) - stained glass, Sacred Heart and Saint Margaret Mary, detail.jpg|Stained glass at Saint Julie Billiart Catholic Church (Hamilton, Ohio)
File:Antonio Ciseri, Apparizione del sacro Cuore a santa maria alacoque, 1880, 01.jpg|Apparition of the Sacred Heart to Santa Maria Alacoque by [[Antonio Ciseri]], 1880
File:Saint Martin of Tours Church (Louisville, Kentucky) - stained glass, Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Margaret Mary.jpg|Stained glass at Saint Martin of Tours Church (Louisville, Kentucky)
File:Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Montauban - Vision de Marguerite-Marie, religieuse de la Visitation par Armand Cambon PM82000424.jpg|''Vision of Margaret Mary Alacoque, nun of the Visitation'' by Armand Cambon, at [[Montauban Cathedral]]
File:Saint-Germain en Laye (78) Eglise Saint-Germain Vitrail du sacré-Cœur.jpg|Stained glass at Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
File:Ballylooby Church of Our Lady and St. Kieran South Transept South Window Revelation of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque Detail 2012 09 08.jpg|Stained glass at Ballylooby Church of Our Lady and St. Kieran, Ireland
File:2019 SMM (Omaha) Rambusch statue and first class relic.jpg|Sanctuary statue and first class relic at [[St. Margaret Mary Church (Omaha)|St. Margaret Mary Church]] (Omaha)
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Sacred Heart]]
* [[Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus]]
* [[First Fridays Devotion]]
* [[Feast of the Sacred Heart]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== References ==
* {{cite Q|Q115463151|editor1=Henry Gardiner Adams}}<!-- [[s:A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Alacoque Marie]] -->
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Alacoque, Marguerite Marie}}
*Gaddis, William.  ''[[The Recognitions]]''.  Penguin Classics, New York, New York. 1993, pp.&nbsp;66–67.
*{{cite CE1913|wstitle=St. Margaret Mary Alacoque|volume=9|first= Mary Bernard|last= Doll}}
*{{cite wikisource |wslink=The Devotion and Office of the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus Christ|author= François Joseph Gaston de Partz de Pressy|year=1852|title=The Devotion and Office of the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus Christ}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Marguerite Marie Alacoque}}
* [https://www.sacrecoeur-paray.org/en/ Sanctuary of Paray-le-Monial | Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717225838/http://sacredheart.vndv.com/sacred2.htm  The Life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in her own words]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213084150/http://abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/saints/margueritemarie/ ''La Vie de Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque''] – Biography in French (1923)
* [http://www.stpetersbasilica.info/Altars/SacredHeart/SacredHeart.htm Sacred Heart Altar in St Peter's Basilica]

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