Feast Day
2 saints in our library are celebrated on October 16.
July 22, 1647 — October 17, 1690
Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Visitation nun whose private visions in Burgundy reshaped Catholic devotion worldwide. In June 1675, Christ appeared and asked her to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart — a movement already beginning to travel through Jesuit networks before she died at forty-three at Paray-le-Monial.
c. 550 AD — c. 645 AD
Saint Gall crossed from Ireland to Gaul as one of twelve disciples of the great Columbanus, then broke with his master to become a hermit in a Swiss wilderness — a choice that outlasted him by centuries. The monastery founded at his hermitage site became one of medieval Europe's greatest libraries, and a Swiss city still bears his name.