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| The Beloved Disciple of the Sacred Heart |
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| The Heiress of all Its treasures |
...Margaret Mary was inspired by
Christ to establish the Holy Hour and to
pray lying prostrate with her face to the ground from eleven till midnight on the eve of the first Friday of each month, to share in the mortal sadness He endured when abandoned by His
Apostles in His
Agony, and to receive
holy Communion on the first Friday of every month. In the first great
revelation, He made known to her His ardent desire to be
loved by
men and His design of manifesting His
Heart with all Its treasures of
love and mercy, of sanctification and
salvation. He appointed the Friday after the
octave of the
feast of
Corpus Christi as the
feast of the
Sacred Heart; He called her "the Beloved Disciple of the
Sacred Heart", and the heiress of all Its treasures. The
love of the
Sacred Heart was the fire which consumed her, and
devotion to the Sacred Heart is the refrain of all her writings. In her last illness she refused all alleviation, repeating frequently: "What have I in
heaven and what do I desire on earth, but Thee alone, O my
God", and died pronouncing the
Holy Name of Jesus...
...In March, 1824,
Leo XII pronounced her Venerable, and on 18 September, 1864,
Pius IX declared her
Blessed. When her
tomb was canonically opened in July, 1830, two instantaneous cures took place. Her body rests under the
altar in the
chapel at
Paray, and many striking favours have been obtained by
pilgrims attracted thither from all parts of the world. Her
feast is celebrated on 17 October. [
Editor's Note: St. Margaret Mary was
canonized by Benedict XV in 1920.]...
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