This Visitandine of Nantes France was the daughter of a tradesman, a dyer of the late 17th century.
She entered the Monastery of the Visitation of Nantes in 1690 and lived until the age of 86, a true Marian soul.
She spoke with such fervor of divine Love that she was familiarly called “Sister of holy love.” Her appeal was to unite with Jesus in the Eucharist, permeated with His immense love for mankind and His suffering.
Sr Marie Marguerite La Croix suffered a painful temptation for three years, and spent much time therefore before the Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus spoke to her: “I deliver you from the temptation because of your perseverance before the sacrament of love. I want that you spend all the time you have before my sacrament of the Eucharist, in sacrifice, love, adoration and thanksgiving “.
The thought of what Jesus did for the salvation of men inspired in Sr Marie Marguerite an ardent zeal. She prayed constantly for the whole world, penetrated with grief at the sight of so many offenses that are committed, extremely touched at public calamities and continually asking the Lord for mercy for his people.
Sister Marie Marguerite lived in continuous intimacy with the Virgin. She received many graces: “I felt all filled with the presence of the Blessed Virgin. I think she took my heart , so I imitate the virtues of her heart: her humility, her constant silence, especially at the cross, her perfect submission to the will of God. She discovered that it was through the practice of these three virtues that the soul arrives earlier to perfection and loving union with Jesus. I saw that the Queen of Saints and Protector of the Church sent her graces as a good mother, to each according to her needs. “
Another time after Holy Communion, “the Blessed Virgin again took possession of my heart, telling me: “Your occupation will be to now unite with the unity of my heart, with that of my Son, so that it is pleasing to Him and meritorious to you. “
At the end of her long life, her contemporaries testify that “her bed where she lies as an invalid is a chapel where she prays day and night, filled with God, talking more to heaven than earth,” . She went from one to the other, suddenly, very simply, in 1757.