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143:, in January 1654. Since the previous year she had been suffering from a serious eye problem described as a "lacrimal fistula". Preparations were being made to treat it surgically when on 24 March 1656 the child declared herself cured from placing her eye against a reliquary containing part of Christ's crown of thorns. Various doctors judged the cure miraculous in the weeks that followed. However,
170:, her brother experienced renewed certainty and joy by the grace of God to his goddaughter. It helped bring about the reconciliation between Pascal and his sister, and the faith preached at Port-Royal. According to legend the episode was the starting point of Pascal's reflections, recorded in his
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In 1661 all the residents of Port-Royal were thrown out. Marguerite Périer then led a secluded life, divided between Paris and
Clermont. However, she maintained strong links with her friends of Port-Royal. In 1700, on the request of her brother Canon Louis Périer, she accepted the charge of
203:) and by reviewing writings about her uncle. She then sold her property, established the general hospital of Clermont as her universal legatee (and thus the legatee of the Pascal and Périer families) and bequeathed her uncle's papers and one of his arithmetic machines to the
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running the Hôtel-Dieu in
Clermont-Ferrand, but gave up this position in 1702 in a difficult political environment. She devoted herself to charitable works, settled permanently with her brother in Clermont-Ferrand and founded a mission in
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The event was widely publicized and for a while stopped the persecutions against the abbey. This miracle was central to the politico-religious debates of the time. The
Jansenists saw it as a sign of God's support for their cause. Father
147:, former dean of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, disputed the testimony of "these approvers of miracles". He said that some were too closely associated with Port-Royal to avoid bias, and others were unqualified "barber surgeons".
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in 1720. She was at first denied the last sacraments, which she obtained only on the express authority of the Bishop of
Clermont. She died on 14 April 1733, 71 years after her uncle, at the age of 87, a great age at that time.
159:. Without questioning the reality of the miracle, which was recognized by the church, he strongly attacked Port-Royal and interpreted the event as an invitation from God to abandon the Jansenist heresy.
136:. Her father was interested in mathematics and collaborated with Blaise Pascal in various scientific experiments. He would publish some of Pascal's treatises after Pascal died.
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Lettres, opuscules et mémoires de madame Périer et de
Jacqueline, sœurs de Pascal, et de Marguerite Périer, sa nièce / publ. sur les manuscrits originaux par M. P. Faugère
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The relic was supposed to be one of the thorns of the crown of Christ. It was gathered by Pierre Le Roy de La
Poterie, a cousin of the Arnaulds and neighbor of Port-Royal
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Réponse à un écrit publié sur le sujet des miracles qu'il a plu à Dieu de faire à Port-Royal depuis quelque temps par une Sainte Epine de la couronne de Notre
Seigneur
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Le Rabat-joie des jansénistes, ou observations nécessaires sur ce qu'on dit être arrivé à Port-Royal au sujet de la Sainte Épine, par un docteur de l'Eglise catholique
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painting of the young
Marguerite Périer kneeling at the altar that held the reliquary was completed in 1657 and has been preserved. It has been attributed to
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However the miracle would be challenged later: medical knowledge has evolved. Marguerite probably only suffered from a tear duct obstruction.
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