Antique Silver Theca Reliquary Relic Of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:4321042 | Modified Item: No |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy |
Antique silver theca reliquary relic of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, This is very tiny and in rough shape there is a piece of the theca missing bottom right side and the chain loop is broken, please look at pictures.red seal intact. This has NO document
Thank youDaughter of Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn, Margaret wasborn on July 22, at L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France, was sentto the poor Clares school at Charolles on the death of her father, a notary, when she was eightyears old. ...She was bedridden for five years with rheumatic fever until she wasfifteen and early developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She refusedmarriage, and in 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le- Monial and was professed the next year. From the time she was twenty, she experienced visions of Christ, and on December 27, 1673, she began a series of revelations thatwere to continue over the next year and a half. In them Christ informedher that she was His chosen instrument to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart, instructed her in a devotion that was to become known as the Nine Fridays andthe Holy Hour, and asked that the feast of the Sacred Heart be established.Rebuffed by her superior, Mother de Saumaise, in her efforts to follow theinstruction she had received in the visions, she eventually won her over butwas unable to convince a group of theologians of the validity of herapparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of hercommunity. She received the support of Blessed Claude La Colombiere, thecommunity's confessor for a time, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, opposition in thecommunity ended when Mother Melin was elected Superior and named Margaret Mary her assistant. She later became Novice Mistress, saw the convent observe the feast of the Sacred Heart privately beginning in 1686, and twoyears later, a Chapel was built at the Paray-le-Monial to honor the Sacred Heart; soon observation of the feast of the Sacred Heartspread to other Visitation convents. Margaret Mary died at the Paray-le-Monial on October 17, and was canonized in 1920. She, St John Eudes, and Blessed Claude La Colombiere arecalled the "Saints of the Sacred Heart"; the devotion was officiallyrecognized and approved by Pope Clement XIII in 1765, seventy-five years afterher death. Her feast day is observed on October 17.
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Thank youDaughter of Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn, Margaret wasborn on July 22, at L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France, was sentto the poor Clares school at Charolles on the death of her father, a notary, when she was eightyears old. ...She was bedridden for five years with rheumatic fever until she wasfifteen and early developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She refusedmarriage, and in 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le- Monial and was professed the next year. From the time she was twenty, she experienced visions of Christ, and on December 27, 1673, she began a series of revelations thatwere to continue over the next year and a half. In them Christ informedher that she was His chosen instrument to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart, instructed her in a devotion that was to become known as the Nine Fridays andthe Holy Hour, and asked that the feast of the Sacred Heart be established.Rebuffed by her superior, Mother de Saumaise, in her efforts to follow theinstruction she had received in the visions, she eventually won her over butwas unable to convince a group of theologians of the validity of herapparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of hercommunity. She received the support of Blessed Claude La Colombiere, thecommunity's confessor for a time, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, opposition in thecommunity ended when Mother Melin was elected Superior and named Margaret Mary her assistant. She later became Novice Mistress, saw the convent observe the feast of the Sacred Heart privately beginning in 1686, and twoyears later, a Chapel was built at the Paray-le-Monial to honor the Sacred Heart; soon observation of the feast of the Sacred Heartspread to other Visitation convents. Margaret Mary died at the Paray-le-Monial on October 17, and was canonized in 1920. She, St John Eudes, and Blessed Claude La Colombiere arecalled the "Saints of the Sacred Heart"; the devotion was officiallyrecognized and approved by Pope Clement XIII in 1765, seventy-five years afterher death. Her feast day is observed on October 17.
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