The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: Apostle of the Sacred Heart

Reveals much about both the Heart of Our Lord and the heart of this great Saint! Shows her amazing ardor and the mysterious connection between suffering and holy love. The most powerful writings on the Sacred Heart devotion!

In these Letters St. Margaret Mary provides a most perfect example of that mysterious, mystical connection between suffering and Divine Love which all Saints confirm. She was driven by a desire to be unknown and by an eagerness for pure love - for totality in loving God. THE LETTERS OF ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE is a treasury which reveals the hidden depths of Christ's love and His desire to enflame souls with the same Dive Love.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born Marguerite Marie Alacoque at Lhautecour, France, in 1647. Even as a young child, she preferred prayer and silence to ordinary recreation, possessing a great love for the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. A mystic, she also experienced visions of our Lord while still young, and took her religious habit in 1671. Subsequently, she began receiving revelations of our Lord's Sacred Heart, and published an autobiography out of obedience to her superiors. St. Margaret Mary died in 1690 and was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.