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Margaret Mary fulfilled her daily duties as a servant with religious obedience invoking her guardian angel and the Blessed Mother to help her especially when she was asked to cook. The thing that most distressed her about this period of service was not the labor involved, but that she was unable to attend Mass or be with those who shared her faith. Her employers were either unaware or unsympathetic of the pain and sorrow this caused her. When she was about thirteen she encountered a man who stunned her by blaspheming and calling upon God to strike him dead if he really existed. But when she heard him speak disrespectfully of the Blessed Virgin she was so shocked that “having no words ready at the moment with which to reply, she used a weightier argument, and seizing a large plate, broke it over the scoffer’s head.” Throughout her life Margaret Mary’s passionate defense of the faith in the face of unbelievers was legendary although she learned to argue more considerately.
Drane, Augusta Theodosia (Mother Francis Raphael), Life of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan: Foundress of the English Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena of the Third Order of St. Dominic, Longmans, Green and Co., New York, New York, 1929, pp. 11-12.
