In 1900, he painted a Jesus appears to the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque, commissioned for the Cathedral Church of Adernò .
In James Joyce's short story "Eveline", part of his Dubliners, a "coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque" is mentioned as part of the decorations of an Irish home at the turn of the 20th Century, testifying to her enduring popularity among Irish Catholics.
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One night, however, she returned home, dressed in her finery, from a ball for Carnival, she experienced a vision of Christ, scourged and bloody, in which he reproached her for her forgetfulness of him, and of how his Heart was filled with love for her due to her promise.
In 1891, he completed an altarpiece depicting Apparition of the Sacred Heart to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque for the Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei.
Construction of the ‘new’ church, with St Margaret Mary Alacoque as patron, began in 1920.
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In 1673 Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque stated that she had a vision of Jesus in which she was instructed to spend an hour every Thursday night to meditate on the sufferings of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.