Today is her feast day. The promoter and updater of an ancient Catholic devotion. A little excerpt below the link.
Saint Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart
Beginning in 1686, the convent at Paray-le-Monial observed the feast of the Sacred Heart privately, and two years later, a chapel was built at the convent to honor the Sacred Heart; observation of the feast of the Sacred Heart spread to other Visitation convents soon after. And, do you know who dedicated themselves to promoting the feast? Sister Margaret’s two brothers, the same who had encouraged her to be a belle.
Saint Margaret Mary died on 17 October 1690. She was forty-three. Her suffering at death was intense, as it had been throughout her penitential life. Refusing all alleviating bromides, her last words were “What have I in heaven and what do I desire on earth, but Thee alone, O my God”, and then she passed away pronouncing the Holy Name of Jesus.
Margaret’s holiness, and the testimony of Saint Claude de la Colombiere (and his Jesuit superiors at that time), certainly helped in the promulgation by the Church of this exquisite devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; nevertheless, it has been emphasized by pious promoters of the cause that even if the Church had rejected the authenticity of the revelations given to our saint, the devotion eventually could have been approved which she gave her life to advancing. It had a long tradition and heavy support among religious orders, the Carthusians and Franciscans, preeminently, even before Jesus came to His servant at Paray-le-Monial.
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