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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
1647 - 1690
Memorial: 16 October
Also known as: Margarita Mary Alacoque, Margherita Mary Alacoque, Marguerite Mary Alacoque
Margaretha-Maria Alacoque was born July 22, 1647 in Hautecour (opposite Verosvres, about 20 km east of Charolles on the N79) in Burgundy, located in the French diocese of Autun. She was the fifth of seven children of Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn.
Her father died of pneumonia when Margaret Alacoque was about eight yeras old, after which more than ever she found consolation in the Blessed Sacrament. Margaret Alacoque was sent to the Urbanist Sisters "The Poor Clares school" at Charollesat Charolles to study.
She loved the peace and order of the convent life, and the nuns were so impressed by her devotion that she was allowed to make her First Communion at the age of nine.
When she was 11, Margaret Alacoque was stricken with rheumatic fever, and the resulting paralysis forced her to be bedridden for