See also:

• ALACOQUE, or AL COQ, MARGUERITE MARIE (1647-1690)

ALACOQUE, or AL COQ, See also:

• MARGUERITE

MARGUERITE See also:

• MARIE

MARIE (1647-1690)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun and mystic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Lauthecourt, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of See also:

• AUTUN

Autun, on the 22nd of See also:

• JULY

July 1647 . She would seem to have been from the first of a morbid and unhealthy temperament, and before- the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of thirteen was the subject of a paralytic seizure . Having been cured of this, as. she believed, by the intercession of the See also:

• HOLY

Holy Virgin, she changed her name to See also:

• MARIE

Marie and vowed to devote her See also:

• LIFE

life to her service . In May 1671 she entered the Visitation See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent at Paray-le-Monial, in the diocese of Autun, and took the final vows in See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1672 . Though her See also:

• READING

reading was confined to the lives of the See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints, she taught in the school kept by the nuns for the girls of the neighbourhood, to whom she endeared herself by her kindly disposition . The appalling austerities, however, to which she was allowed to subject herself quickly affected her See also:

• MENTAL

mental and bodily See also:

• HEALTH

health . Hallucinations, to which she had been always subject, became more and more frequent . She conceived herself to be specially favoured by See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ, who appeared to her in the most extravagant forms . At last, by dint of See also:

• FASTING (from " fast," derived from old Teutonic fastejan; synonyms being the Gr. vnorebety, late Lat. jejunare)

fasting and lacerating her flesh, she succeeded in reducing herself to such a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of ecstatic suffering that she believed herself to be undergoing in her own See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person the See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

Passion of the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord . Her See also:

• REWARD

reward was the supreme See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

vision in which Christ revealed to her His See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart burning with divine love, and even, so she affirmed, exchanged it with hers, at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time bidding her establish, on the See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday following, the feast of Corpus Christi, a festival in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of His Sacred Heart . It was not till ten years later, in 1685, that the festival was first celebrated at Paray, and not till after the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• MARGUERITE

Marguerite, on the 17th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1690, that the cult of the Sacred Heart, fostered by the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits and the subject of violent controversies within the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, spread throughout See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and Christendom .