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Margaret Mary Alacoque, the Glossary

Margaret Mary Alacoque, VHM (Marguerite-Marie Alacoque) (22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690) was a French Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.^[1]

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17th-century French nuns
Canonizations by Pope Benedict XV
Christian female saints of the Early Modern era
French Christian mystics
People from Paray-le-Monial
Sacred Heart devotions
Visions of Jesus and Mary
Visitandine mystics
Visitandine nuns

Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Christian prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Acts of reparation

Reparation is a Christian theological concept closely connected with those of atonement and satisfaction.

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Agony in the Garden

The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane is an episode in the life of Jesus, which occurred after the Last Supper and before his betrayal and arrest, all part of the Passion of Jesus leading to his crucifixion and death.

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Antonio Ciseri

Antonio Ciseri (25 October 1821 – 8 March 1891) was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects.

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Apostle

An apostle, in its literal sense, is an emissary.

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Beatification

Beatification (from Latin beatus, "blessed" and facere, "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name.

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Canonization

Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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Carnival

Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic devotions

Catholic devotions are particular customs, rituals, and practices of worship of God or honour of the saints which are in addition to the liturgy of the Catholic Church.

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Claude La Colombière

Claude La Colombière was a French Jesuit priest best known as the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. Margaret Mary Alacoque and Claude La Colombière are 17th-century Christian saints and Sacred Heart devotions.

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Communes of France

The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Confessor

In a number of Christian traditions, including Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution.

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Detente bala

"Detente bala" is an inscription used by Spanish soldiers from the 18th century. Margaret Mary Alacoque and Detente bala are Sacred Heart devotions.

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Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.

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Duchy of Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy (Ducatus Burgundiae; Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the Frankish Empire.

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Encyclical

An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.

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Eucharistic adoration

Eucharistic adoration is a devotional practice primarily in Western Catholicism and Western Rite Orthodoxy, but also to a lesser extent in certain Lutheran and Anglican traditions, in which the Blessed Sacrament is adored by the faithful.

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Eveline (short story)

"Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce.

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Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is observed by the Latin Church, in addition to certain Western Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican churches.

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Feast of the Sacred Heart

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

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First Communion

First Communion is a ceremony in some Christian traditions during which a person of the church first receives the Eucharist.

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First Fridays Devotion

The First Fridays Devotion, also called the Nine First Fridays Devotion or the Communions of Reparation to the Sacred Heart, is a Catholic devotion in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to offer reparations for sins to the Blessed Sacrement.

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General Roman Calendar

The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use.

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Gethsemane

Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

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Hautecour, Jura

Hautecour is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Heroic virtue

Heroic virtue is the translation of a phrase coined by Augustine of Hippo to describe the virtue of early Christian martyrs.

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Holy Hour

Holy Hour is the Roman Catholic devotional tradition of spending an hour in prayer and meditation on the agony of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, or in Eucharistic adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis-Victor-Emile Bougaud

Émile Bougaud, born Edme Louis Victor Bougaud (b. at Dijon, 25 February 1823, d. at Laval, 7 November 1888) was French, known as a writer and preacher.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Maxim (philosophy)

A maxim is simply a moral rule or principle, which can be considered dependent on one's philosophy.

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Miserentissimus Redemptor

Miserentissimus Redemptor is the title of an encyclical by Pope Pius XI, promulgated on May 8, 1928, on reparation to the Sacred Heart.

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Montauban Cathedral

Montauban Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Montauban) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument of France located in the town of Montauban.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.

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Novice master

In the Christian Church, a novice master or master of novices (magister noviciorum), is a member of an institute of consecrated life who is responsible for the training and government of the novitiate in that institute.

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Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary

The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (Ordo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis), abbreviated VSM and also known as the Visitandines, is a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right for women.

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Paray-le-Monial

Paray-le-Monial is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Poor Clares

The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Pope Benedict XV

Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (21 November 185422 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922.

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Pope Leo XII

Pope Leo XII (Leone XII), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiorre Girolamo Nicola della Genga (2 August 1760 – 10 February 1829), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 28 September 1823 to his death in February 1829.

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Pope Pius IX

Pope Pius IX (Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878.

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Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI (Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939.

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Private revelation

In Christian theology, a private revelation is an instance of revelation, in a broader sense of the term, of divine reality to a person or persons.

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Religious habit

A religious habit is a distinctive set of religious clothing worn by members of a religious order.

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Revelation

In religion and theology, revelation (or divine revelation) is the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity (god) or other supernatural entity or entities.

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Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire (Arpitan: Sona-et-Lêre) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France.

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Sacred Congregation of Rites

The Sacred Congregation of Rites was a congregation of the Roman Curia, erected on 22 January 1588 by Pope Sixtus V by Immensa Aeterni Dei; it had its functions reassigned by Pope Paul VI on 8 May 1969.

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Sacred Heart

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind".

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Solemnity

In the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, his earthly father Joseph, or another important saint.

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The Recognitions

The Recognitions is the 1955 debut novel of US author William Gaddis.

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The Venerable

The Venerable is a style, title, or epithet used in some Christian churches.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Verosvres

Verosvres is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Virgin (title)

The title Virgin (Virgo, Παρθένος) is an honorific bestowed on female saints and blesseds, primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

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Visions of Jesus and Mary

A number of people have claimed to have had visions of Jesus Christ and personal conversations with him.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Alacoque

Also known as Alacoque, Margaret Marie Alacoque, Margaret Mary, Margaret Mary, Saint, Margaret-Marie Alacoque, Margherita Alacoque, Margherita Maria Alacoque, Marguerite Alacoque, Marguerite Marie Al Coq, Marguerite Marie Alacoque, Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, Maria Margherita Alacoque, Marie Alacoque, Saint Margaret Alacoque, Saint Margaret Mary, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, St. Margaret Mary, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

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See also

17th-century French nuns

Canonizations by Pope Benedict XV

Christian female saints of the Early Modern era

French Christian mystics

People from Paray-le-Monial

Sacred Heart devotions

Visions of Jesus and Mary

Visitandine mystics

Visitandine nuns

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