From the publisher: In this novel, the complete story of the life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque is told. It was an extraordinarily unhappy life with magnificently happy consequences. From the time she was a little girl until her holy death, Margaret Mary was mistreated and humiliated, misunderstood and disbelieved. Home life on the family farm had been dreadful. Life in the convent at Paray was almost as bad. ' But Margaret Mary had one goal and meant it completely when she said: "I want to be a. nun solely for the love of God." Her message is as necessary now as it was in seventeenth-century France. Perhaps more so, for false reasons for despair are more plentiful now and the need for souls to love God seems today even greater.