Feast day: October 16
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
French Visitation nun whose visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — His heart 'which has so loved men' — spread one of Catholicism's central devotions.
The image of the Sacred Heart in millions of homes traces back to a quiet nun in a small French convent whom almost no one believed at first.
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