MARGARET OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT, Venerable. - Carmelite mystic, in the world Marguerite Acarie, b. in Paris on 6 March 1590, d. there at the Petit Carmel of rue Chapon, on 24 May 1660. Daughter of Barbe Avrillot or Mme Acarie (v. MARIA DELL'INCARNAZIONE, blessed), she entered on 15 Sept. 1605 among the Carmelites of the Faubourg St-Jacques (Paris).

"She will go further than her mother," Fr. E. Binet (v.) used to say of M. Nourished on the works of St. Teresa and on the spirit of the De imitatione Christi, she always aimed at self-effacement. Her spirituality was strong and simple. God manifested M.'s holiness with the gift of prophecy; Richelieu himself had her questioned by Card. De Bérulle before undertaking the siege of La Rochelle. She foretold, in particular, the death of St. Jane F. de Chantal. At the beatification process of Mme Acarie, her mother, the marquise de Maignelais declared: "Mother M., her daughter, is even holier." Fr. De Vernon extracted from her letters and spiritual notes: Conduite chrétienne et religieuse selon les sentiments de la vén. mère Marguerite (Paris 1641).

Bibliography

BIBL.: H. Bremond, Histoire littér. du sentiment religieux en France, II, Paris 1923, p. 343 ff. Silvano Pidoux de la Maduère

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Margaret of the Most Holy Sacrament, Venerable

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