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† Blessed MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE
V.H.M RELICVISITATION DU MANS -FRANCE - 1900\'s †
come from a Frenchprivateecclesiastical collection.DIMENSIONS:32X 25mm .Margaret Mary Alacoque
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, V.H.M.Margaretha Maria Alacoque,Montauban CathedralDisciple of the Sacred HeartBorn22 July 1647
L\'Hautecour,Duchy of Burgundy,Kingdom of FranceDied17 October 1690(aged43)
Paray-le-Monial, Duchy of Burgundy, Kingdom of FranceVeneratedinRoman Catholic ChurchBeatified18 September 1864,Rome,Papal States, byPope Pius IXCanonized13 May 1920,Vatican City, byPope Benedict XVMajorshrineMonastery of the FranceFeastOctober 16 (October 17 by theOrder of the Visitation of Holy Maryand universally prior to 1969; transferred to Oct 20 in Canada)Patronagethose suffering withpolio, devotees of theSacred Heart, loss of parents

St.Margaret Mary Alacoque,V.H.M.(French:Marguerite-Marie Alacoque) (1647–1690), was aFrenchRoman Catholicnunandmystic, who promoteddevotionto theSacred Heart of Jesusin its modern form.[1]

Life[edit]

She worked to prove the genuineness of her vocation and hervisions of Jesus and Maryrelating to theSacred Heart. She was initially rebuffed by her mother superior and was unable to convince theologians of the validity of her visions. A noted exception wasJesuitSaintClaude de la Colombière, who supported her. The devotion to theSacred Heartwas officially recognized 75 years after Alacoque\'s death.[2]In his encyclicalMiserentissimus Redemptor,Pope Pius XIstated that Jesus Christ had \"manifested Himself\" to Saint Margaret and referred to the conversation between Jesus and Saint Margaret several times.[3]

Early life[edit]

Alacoque was born in 1647 in L\'Hautecour, now part of thecommuneofVerosvres, then in theDuchy of Burgundy, the only daughter of Claude and Philiberte Lamyn Alacoque, who had also several sons.[4]From early childhood, Margaret was described as showing intense love for the Blessed Sacrament, and as preferring silence and prayer to childhood play.

After her First Communion at the age of nine, she practised in secret severe corporalmortification, until rheumatic fever confined her to bed for four years. At the end of this period, having made a vow to theBlessed Virginto consecrate herself to religious life, she was instantly restored to perfect health.[4]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 hadvisions of Jesus Christ, which she thought were a normal part of human experience and continued to practice austerity.

Alacoque lost her father at a young age, and the family\'s assets were held by a relative 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, the family regained their fortune and 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.[4]

One night, after returning home from a ball forCarnivaldressed 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, theVisitationConvent atParay-le-Monialon 25 May 1671, intending to become a nun.[4]

Monastic life[edit]Jesus appearing to St. Margaret Mary, Church of San Michele,Cortemilia,Italy

Alacoque was subjected to many trials to prove the genuineness of her vocation. She was admitted to wearing thereligious habiton 25 August 1671, but was not allowed to make her religious profession on the same date of the following year, which would have been normal.[5]A fellow novice described Margaret Mary as humble, simple and frank, but above all kind and patient.[6]Finally, she was 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.[7]

Visions[edit]

In this monastery Alacoque received severalprivate revelationsof the Sacred Heart, the first on 27 December 1673 and the final one 18 months later. The visions revealed to her the form of the devotion, the chief features being reception ofHoly Communionon thefirst Fridayof each month,Eucharistic adorationduring a \"Holy hour\" on Thursdays, and the celebration of theFeast of the Sacred Heart.[8]She stated that in her vision she was instructed to spend an hour every Thursday night to meditate on Jesus\'Agony in the GardenofGethsemane. The Holy Hour practice later became widespread among Catholics.[9][10]

On 27 December 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary reported that Jesus 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.

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 group of theologians of the validity of her apparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of her own community, and suffered greatly at their hands. She eventually received the support of St.Claude de la Colombière,S.J., the community\'sconfessorfor 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 becameNovice Mistress,[7]and saw the monastery observe the Feast of the Sacred Heart privately, beginning in 1686. Two years later, a chapel was built atParay-le-Monialto honor the Sacred Heart.

Alacoque died on 17 October 1690.

Veneration[edit]Blessed Mary of the Divine Heartand St. Margarette Mary Alacoque adoring theSacred Heart of Jesus

After Alacoque the devotion to the Sacred Heart was fostered by theJesuitsand the subject of controversies within the Church. The practice was not officially recognized until 75 years later.[8]

The discussion of Alacoque\'s own mission and qualities continued for years. All her actions, herrevelations, her spiritualmaxims, her teachings regarding the devotion to the Sacred Heart, of which she was the chief exponent as well as theapostle, were subjected to the most severe and minute examination, and finally theSacred Congregation of Ritespassed a favourable vote on theheroic virtuesof this \"servant of God\". In March 1824,Pope Leo XIIpronounced herVenerableand on 18September 1864Pope Pius IXdeclared herBlessed.[11]When her tomb was canonically opened in July 1830, two instantaneous cures were recorded to have taken place. Herincorruptbody rests above the side altar in the Chapel of the Apparitions, located at the Visitation Monastery inParay-le-Monial, and many striking blessings have been claimed by pilgrims attracted there from all parts of the world.[4]

Alacoque wascanonizedbyPope Benedict XVin 1920, and in 1929 herliturgicalcommemoration was included in theGeneral Roman calendarfor celebration on 17October, the day of her death. In the reforms of 1969, the feast day was moved to the prior day, 16 October.

In his 1928encyclicalMiserentissimus Redemptor,Pope Pius XIaffirmed the Church\'s position regarding the credibility of hervisions of Jesus Christby speaking of Jesus as having \"manifested Himself\" to Saint Margaret Mary and having \"promised her that all those who rendered this honour to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces\".[12]

Alacoque\'s short devotional writing,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 amongCatholics.[13]

Mariologists refer to Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque as \"living proof how Marian devotion is linked to \'Christology\'\" and the adoration of Jesus Christ.[14]

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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.

— — from Revelations of Our Lord to St. Mary Margaret AlacoquePopular culture[edit]

InJames Joyce\'s short story \"Eveline\", in his bookDubliners,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.

Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary
Order of the Visitation of Holy MaryOrdo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae VirginisAbbreviationV.H.M.MottoVive JésusFormation1610FounderSaint Francis de SalesandSaint Jane Frances de ChantalTypeRoman Catholic religious orderWebsite[link removed by ]

TheOrder of the Visitation of Holy Mary(Latin:Ordo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis, V.H.M.) or theVisitation Orderis anenclosedRoman Catholic religious orderforwomen. Members of the order are also known as theSalesian Sisters(not to be confused with theSalesian Sisters of Don Bosco) or, more commonly, as theVisitandinesorVisitation Sisters.[1]

Contents[hide]

• 1History of the Order
• 2Charism
• 3Expansion
  • 3.1Portugal
  • 3.2England
  • 3.3Germany
  • 3.4Ireland
  • 3.5Korea
• 4In the United States
  • 4.1First federation
  • 4.2Second federation
• 5Noted Visitandines
• 6References
• 7External links

History of the Order[edit]St.Francis de Salesgiving the Rule for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary to St.Jane Frances de Chantal

The Order of the Visitation was founded in 1610 bySaint Francis de SalesandSaint Jane Frances de ChantalinAnnecy,Haute-Savoie,France. At first the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate, after which thesistersshould be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor. The order was given the name of The Visitation of Holy Mary with the intention that the sisters would follow the example of Virgin Mary and her joyful visit to her kinswoman Elizabeth, (known as\"The Visitation\"in the Roman Catholic Church).

He invited Jane de Chantal to join him in establishing a new type of religious life, one open to older women and those of delicate constitution, that would stress the hidden, inner virtues of humility, obedience, poverty, even-tempered charity, and patience, and founded on the example of Mary in her journey of mercy to her cousin Elizabeth.[2]The order was established to welcome those not able to practice austerities required in other orders.[3]Instead of chanting the canonical office in the middle of the night the sisters recited the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin at half-past eight in the evening. There was no perpetual abstinence nor prolonged fast. The Order of the Visitation of Mary was canonically erected in 1618 byPaul Vwho granted it all the privileges enjoyed by the other orders. A Bull ofUrban VIIIsolemnly approved it in 1626.[1]

Charism[edit]

The specialcharismof the Visitation Order is an interior discipline expressed primarily through the practice of two virtues: humility and gentleness.[4]The motto of the order is \"Live Jesus\".[3]

Expansion[edit]

A foundation was established in Lyons in 1615 followed by Moulines (1616), Grenoble (1618), Bourges (1618), andParis(1619). WhenSaint Francis de Salesdied (1622) there were 13 convents established; at the death ofSaint Jane Frances de Chantalin 1641 there were 86.[1]The Order spread from France throughout Europe and to North America. As of 2017, there are about 160 autonomous Visitation monasteries throughout the world.[5]

Portugal[edit]The Monastery of the Sisters of the Visitation inBraga,Portugal

The Order of the Visitation has been present inPortugalsince 1784, maintaining today three monasteries: inBraga, inVila das Avesand inBatalha. The Sisters of the Visitation in Portugal produce and distribute theemblems of the Sacred Heart of Jesus(likedevotional scapulars) asSaint Margaret Mary Alacoquedid in the past.[6]

England[edit]

At the French Revolution in 1789 when all the religious houses were suppressed many of the French Sisters took refuge in other Catholic countries. The sisters in Rouen, northern France, fled to Portuguese monasteries, having only escaped the guillotine by the death of Robespierre in 1794. In 1803 six sisters left Lisbon in an English packet ship and while at sea they were attacked by French pirates. They were spared because of their nationality (they were French not English) and were returned safely to the Spanish seaport of Vigo. After a brief sojourn in Spain three of the Sisters made a second attempt to cross from Porto and without further encounters with pirates arrived in Falmouth on 29 January 1804. They later journeyed to Acton and founded the first monastery of the Visitation on English soil on 19 March 1804.[7]

Germany[edit]

In 1835, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary ofDietramszellacquiredBeuerberg Abbey(Kloster Beuerberg), inEurasburg,Germany. Between 1846 and 1938 they ran a girls\' school and a home for nursing mothers at Beuerberg Abbey, and afterwards an old people\'s convalescent home. The abbey still belongs to the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Ireland[edit]

The Visitation Sisters came to Ireland in 1955 and founded a Monastery at Stamullen, Co. Meath. When Mother Mary Teresa O’ Dwyer, Superior of the Visitation Monastery of Roseland, England learned that the Brothers of St. John of God were moving out of Silverstream, she applied to the Bishop of Meath, Dr. Kyne for permission for the order of the Visitation to enter his diocese. Staffing problems were solved by borrowing three Sisters from America. The Visitation Monasteries of St. Paul Minnesota, Brooklyn New York and Atlanta Georgia each lent a Sister.[8]

Korea[edit]

In 2005, Visitation Sisters from Manizales,Colombiacame to South Korea. The Monastery of the Visitation was established in Jeongok-eup,Yeoncheon CountyinGyeonggi Province,South Korea.

In the United States[edit]

In theUnited Statesthere are 10 monasteries in two federations.The monasteries of the First Federation live the purely contemplative life, observing papal enclosure, with solemn vows, and have retained the traditional habit of the Order. Of the ten monasteries of the Visitation in the United States, six belong to the First Federation,[9]

First federation[edit]

• The Convent of the Visitation in Mobile, Alabama was founded in 1833 by Bishop Michael Portier, first bishop of Mobile. Aware of the lack of schools in his diocese, he remembered the fine work of the Visitation nuns throughout his native France. Five nuns from the monastery in Georgetown, Washington, D. C. boarded a sailing ship in November, 1832 and arrived in Mobile a month later. In March, 1840, a tornado leveled the buildings. In the 1950s the school was converted to a retreat house. The monastery also serves as a distribution center for communion breads used by churches throughout the Mobile Archdiocese and for many churches in surrounding states, a service extended to a number of non-Catholic churches as well[2]
• In 1866 Visitation Sisters from Baltimore, Maryland came to Richmond, Virginia at the request of Bishop John McGill. In 1987 the Visitation Sisters relocated to Rockville, Virginia (where they continue to bake altar breads as their main source of income).[3]
  • In 1846, 11 of the Georgetown Visitation sisters relocated to Frederick, Maryland to carry on a school began by the Sisters of Charity in 1824, which from that date became theVisitation Academy of Frederick- which had an important part in Civil War history when it was occupied in September 1862 (until January 1863) by Union Troops and became General Hospital #5 following the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam. In the spring of 2005 the Visitation Monastery closed its doors and the remaining three Visitation Sisters transferred to the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary Monte Maria in Rockville, Virginia.[10]
• The Visitation community of Tyringham, Massachusetts was founded in 1853 in Keokuk, Iowa by the Visitation Monastery of Montluel, France. In the 19th Century, it was necessary for Visitation communities, both in France and in the United States, to have academies for girls in order to support themselves. After having moved from Keokuk, Iowa, to Suspension Bridge, New York, and then, lastly, to Wilmington, Delaware in 1868, a generous benefactress enabled the community to close the school in 1893 and live the full contemplative life. In 1993 the community relocated to Massachusetts and moved into its present monastery, Mont Deux Coeurs, in December 1995.[11]
• The Visitation nuns have been in Toledo since 1915.[12]
• The Monastery of the Visitation was established in Atlanta Georgia and moved to Snellville, Georgia in 1974.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[5]

Second federation[edit]

Sisters of the Second Federation add apostolic monasteries to their contemplative life.

Georgetown Visitation Monastery

• Georgetown Visitation Monasterywas the first house of the Visitation founded in the United States. In 1799, three sisters in the order were given permission by ArchbishopLeonard Nealeto start a girls\' school located next toGeorgetown University, in Washington, D.C., called theGeorgetown Visitation Preparatory School. In 1816, theGeorgetown Visitation Monasterywas founded withTeresa Laloras superior.
• On May 3 of 1833, eight sisters from the Georgetown Visitation founded the first Visitation Academy in the midwest at Kaskaskia, Illinois. On the final leg of their trip from Georgetown, the Sisters crossed the Mississippi River from Missouri into Illinois. First person accounts tell of the Sisters \"sitting in a ferryboat that took them across the river. They sat dangerously close to the brown water.\" In April 1844, six sisters left to begin theVisitation Academy of St. LouisinSt. Louis, Missouri. On June 24, the flooding Mississippi River forced evacuation from Kaskaskia, and a steamboat bearing visitors to the monastery rescued sisters, students, and furnishings through the second story windows, and transported them to St. Louis. In 1992, five sisters from the Rock Island, Illinois Visitation merged with the St. Louis community. Later eleven sisters from Rock Island re-located to the Mercy Sisters\' retirement facility, Catherine\'s House, in Rock Island.[13]
• The Visitation monastery in Brooklyn, New York was founded in 1855.[14]
• In 1873, six Sisters of the Visitation from St. Louis, Missouri traveled by steamship for eight days up the Mississippi river to the fast-growing river town of St. Paul, Minnesota at the request of Bishop Grace who asked them to make a new foundation and open a school. In 1966 the sisters moved to Mendota Heights where the larger facility allowed for expanded programs and enrollment.[15]In 1989, the Leadership of the Second Federation of the Visitation Order in the United States of America established an urban monastic community inMinneapolis, Minnesota. As part of their ministry to families they offer education sessions, such as cooking and nutrition, finance and budgeting, college preparation, etc. for neighborhood teens.[16]

TheMount de Chantal Visitation Academywas founded in 1848 as the Wheeling Female Academy in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia and in 1865 assumed its current name. While grades five through twelve were all female, Mount de Chantal\'s Montessori and Elementary schools were co-ed. The school ceased operations on May 31, 2008, and the nuns re-located to the Georgetown Visitation in Washington, D.C. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, before being razed on November 7, 2011.

Noted Visitandines[edit]

The best known saint of the Order is St.Margaret Mary Alacoque, who reportedly received the revelations of the Sacred Heart resulting in theFirst Friday Devotionsand Holy Hours. On May 10, 1998, seven Visitandines of the First Monastery of Madrid, Spain, martyred during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, were beatified in Rome byPope John Paul II.

• Blessed Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa Naveros (b. July 24, 1872 in Alhama, Granada)
• Bl. Teresa Maria Cavestany y Anduaga (b. July 30, 1888 in Puerto Real, Cadiz)
• Bl. Josefa Maria Barrera Izaguirre (b. May 23, 1881 in El Ferrol, La Coruna)
• Bl. Maria Ines Zudaire Galdeano (b. January 28, 1900 in Echavarri, Navarre)
• Bl. Maria Cecilia Cendoya Araquistain (b. January 10, 1910 in Azpeitia, Guipuzcoa)
• Bl. Maria Engracia Lecuona Aramburu (b. July 2, 1897 in Oyarzun Guipuzcoa)
• Bl. Maria Angela Olaizola Garagarza (b. November 12, 1893 in Azpeitia Guipuzcoa[5]

The nuns were members of the Madrid House of the Order of the Visitation. In early 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, as religious persecution intensified, most of the community moved to Oronoz, leaving a group of six nuns in the charge of Sr Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa. By July they were confined to their apartment, When a neighbour reported them to the authorities, and in November 1936 their apartment searched. Nevertheless, they refused to seek refuge in the consulates.[17]

The following evening, a patrol of the Iberian Anarchist Federation broke into the apartment and ordered all the sisters to leave. They were taken by van to a vacant area and shot. Sr Maria Cecilia, who had run when she felt the sister next to her fall, surrendered shortly after and was shot five days later at the cemetery wall in Vallecas on the outskirts of Madrid.[17]

In 2010, in honor of the worldwide Jubilee Year for the Visitation order, Pope Benedict XVI granted a plenary indulgence to those who would make a visit to and pray in a Visitation monastery.[18]

Léonie Martin, the sister of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, became a nun of the Order of the Visitation. She received the veil on the 2nd of July 1900 and took the name Sister Françoise-Thérèse Martin. On the 24 January 2015 the process for Leonie\'s beatification began and she is now known as Servant of God.[19]

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