ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 5th of November
MARGARITA DE CONCEPTIONE, VIRGIN
Margarita de Conceptione, an Ursuline nun at Havre de Grace, spent two years as a domestic assistant at the convent at Rouen, where she was compared to Nathanael for her sincerity and frankness.
From Rouen she came to the convent in Havre de Grace. After taking her profession, she was soon afflicted with sickness and therefore could not show much of her heroic practice of virtue. Instead she gave herself to spiritual reading, contemplation and prayer, from which she drew heavenly consolation. She died on November 5, 1643, after many serious illnesses.
After her death, her face became quite beautiful and well-formed, so that everyone had to recognise something supernatural about it. She had promised her nurse to pick her up soon after her death, which happened a few days later. (Tagb. II. 673).
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875)
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