17/10: Feast of the “First Fridays’ Saint”!
SAINT MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE, VIRGIN—1690 Feast: October 17 In seventeenth-century France the faith of the people had been badly shaken; there was rebellion against the Church and neglect of its teachings; the rise of Protestantism and the spread of the heresy of Jansenism[1] both had a part in the weakening of the structure built up...
