EWTN To Make St. Margaret Mary Relics Available for Public Veneration Wednesday, Oct.19

Irondale, AL (EWTN) – The relics of St. Margaret Mary, a 17th Century Visitation nun and mystic known as the Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be available for public veneration on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at EWTN. Veneration will begin after the 7 a.m. Mass and continue until 4:30 p.m. with interruptions for two scheduled Masses at 9:30 a.m. and noon.

Want to know more about the saint? Tune into “EWTN Live” at 7 p.m. CT, Wednesday, Oct. 17 to watch the priests who are touring the relics around the country talk about the saint and the tour. St. Margaret Mary was also known as a proponent of the “First Friday devotion” in which Catholics receive communion on the First Friday of each month in reparation for the sins of the world.

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