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Introduction |
9 |
| I. State of the Church in France at the Birth of Saint Margaret Mary. 1647 |
17 |
| II. Birth of Saint Margaret Mary — First Years — Childhood and Youth. 1647 – 1662 |
34 |
| III. Margaret’s Vocation — She Enters the Visitation of Paray. 1662 – 1671 |
54 |
| IV. The Convent of Paray. 1671 |
71 |
| V. Margaret Mary’s Novitiate — God Prepares her for the Great Mission about to be entrusted to her — Her Profession. May 26, 1671 – November 6, 1672 |
92 |
| VI. Final Exterior Preparations — Last Finishing Stroke within. November 6, 1672 – December 27, 1673 |
110 |
| VII. The Aurora of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart. |
126 |
| VIII. The Visitation Established to be the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart. |
142 |
| IX. The Revelations of the Sacred Heart. 1673 – 1675 |
160 |
| X. Almighty God Prepares the Convent of Paray to become the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart. 1675 – 1678 |
180 |
| XI. Mother Greyfie submits Margaret’s Extraordinary Ways to a New Examination — Her Severity and her Fearlessness — Father de la Colombiere Returns to Paray — His Death. 1678 – 1684 |
194 |
| XII. The Saintly Sister among her Novices — The Secret of the Sublime Revelations Escapes her in Spite of herself — First Public Adoration of the Sacred Heart. 1684 – 1685 |
220 |
| XIII. The Apostolate of the Sacred Heart Begun — With what Modesty and Zeal Margaret Mary begins to Spread Devotion to the Sacred Heart. 1686 – 1689 |
244 |
| XIV. The Last Grand Revelation — The King and France. 1689 |
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| XV. Margaret Mary’s Mission Ended — She is Consumed in the Flames of Divine Love — Her Holy Death. 1690 |
274 |
| XVI. Devotion to the Heart of Jesus Begins in the World — Anger of Some, Enthusiasm of Others. |
290 |
| XVII. The First-fruits of Devotion to the Sacred Heart — The Church of France Vivified in the Rays of the Sacred Heart — Beatification of Saint Margaret Mary. |
315 |
| XVIII. Unexpected and Marvelous Spread of Devotion to the Heart of Jesus amid the Misfortunes of France — The Second Part of the Mission confided to Saint Margaret Mary Approaches its Accomplishment. 1870 – 1874 |
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| XIX. Montmartre — The Wish of St. Francis de Sales — The Visitation Order and Jansenism — The Visitandines as Reformers and Founders — The Visitandines in the Revolution — the Scapular of the Sacred Heart in the Reign of Terror — The Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart — The Consecration of the World to the Sacred Heart. |
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| XX. Enthronement of the Sacred Heart — Some American Associations — The Words of Pope Benedict XV., and the Decree of Canonization of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Professed Religious of the Order of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the diocese of Autun |
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