Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament

Marguerite Guillot, better known as Blessed Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament (Paris, 6 March 1590; there 24 May 1660) was a French Carmelite nun. She was the second daughter of Madame Acarie, the Blessed Marie of the Incarnation, who introduced the Reformed Carmelites into France. Along with Saint Peter Julian Eymard, in 1858 she established the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, a cloistered contemplative congregation of women.^[1]

Directed by Pierre de Bérulle, she took the religious habit at the first Carmelite convent, Rue St. Jacques, Paris, 15 September 1605. On 21 November 1606, she made her vows privately, and on 18 March 1607, she made them solemnly, under the care of Mother Anne de Saint-Barthélemi.

In 1615 she was made sub-prioress, and in 1618, prioress of the convent of Tours. She was sent in 1620 to restore harmony in the convent at Bordeaux. Shortly after this she was ordered to the convent of Saintes, where she remained eighteen months, and in 1624 was recalled to Paris, to replace as prioress Mother Madeleine de Saint-Joseph in the convent situated in the Rue Chapon. After having been several times prioress of the convent of the Rue Chapon, where she showed a zeal for bodily mortification that her superiors had sometimes to moderate, she was attacked by dropsy, of which she died. Her heart was taken to the monastery of Pontoise, where her mother had been buried, and her body remained in the convent of the Rue Chapon, where it was kept until 1792.

See also

• Maria Candida of the Eucharist

References

1. ^ Guide to religious communities for women by Deborah Barrett 1983 ISBN 9994211978 page 380

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  The entry cites:
  • Boucher, Hist. de la Bienheureuse Marie de l'Incarnation, II, (Paris, 1854), 168-80.