Marguerite-marie alacoque biography of michael

          Marguerite Marie Alacoque was 10 years old, she became very ill with a disease that left her paralyzed....

          John the Evangelist, Dec. 27, A seemingly ordinary French nun, Sr. Margaret Mary Alacoque, was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, lingering a bit.

          Alacoque, Margaret Mary, St.

          Contemplative nun of the visitation order; b. Lauthecourt, France, July 22, 1647; d. Paray-le-Monial, Oct. 17, 1690. Margaret was the fifth of seven children of Claude Alacoque, a royal notary, and Philiberte Lamyn.

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        2. Marguerite Marie Alacoque was 10 years old, she became very ill with a disease that left her paralyzed.
        3. Marguerite Alacoque was born on July 22nd, in Verosvres, Charolais.
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          5. The family was esteemed by members of the nobility, whose names appear frequently as sponsors on the Baptism register. Margaret's education was limited to the training received in the home of her godmother and, after the death of her father, to the two years spent at the boarding school of the Urbanists, where she made her first Communion.

          Illness required her withdrawal, and the next 15 years were spent with her mother in painful dependence on nearby relatives. During this period, her attraction to suffering and her grace of contemplative prayer were intensified.

          Marguerite Alacoque was born on July 22nd, in Verosvres, Charolais.

          On July 20, 1671, Margaret Mary entered Paray-le-Monial, and was professed Nov. 6 of the next year. Between 1673 and 1675 she received the revelations. The first commissioned her