Sacred Heart
Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 10:06PM
Kaleidoscope of Color in Coatepec, Mexico, flower, photo

Sacred Heart :: Coatepec, Mexico (c) 2011 Skip Hunt

This devotion is predominantly used in the Catholic Church and among some high-church Anglicans. The devotion especially emphasizes the unmitigated love, compassion, and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards humanity. The origin of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a French Roman Catholic nun, Marguerite Marie Alacoque, who said she learned the devotion from Jesus during a mystical experience. Predecessors to the modern devotion arose unmistakably in the Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism.

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