Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a title of the

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. The origin of this

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goes back to Father

Jules Chevalier Servant of God Jules Chevalier (15 March 1824 – 21 October 1907) was a French Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (FDNSC), the Missionary Sisters of th ...

, the founder of the

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC; la, Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis; french: Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur) are a missionary congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1854 by Servant of God Jules Chevalier (182 ...

History

In 1854, in Issoudun, during the

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of the Immaculate Conception, Father Jules Chevalier promised that if his dream of forming a missionary

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in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus comes true, he will teach the faithful to love the Virgin Mary in a peculiar way. The congregation would consider Mary as her foundress and her sovereign, and they will associate her with all her works. During various novenas made to the Virgin Mary, Fr. Chevalier obtained several financial donations that allowed him to build the Basilica of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Issoudun, and in 1857 he consolidated his congregation and henceforth venerated Mary under the title of ''Our Lady of the Sacred Heart''.

Iconography

Issoudun - Basilique Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur - Chapel

In 1861, Fr. Chevalier had a stained glass window made, where Mary and Jesus appear standing, the child touches his heart with his left hand and with his right hand points to his mother on high, sending the message that through Mary the faithful can reach the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1868,

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blessed a couple of crowns which are placed in the stained glass window of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, and the congregation became an

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. In 1874, Pope Pius IX raised the sanctuary to the status of a ''

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''. on Benedict XV granted a second decree of

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of the image in 1919. At the end of the 19th century, the devotion to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart spread throughout America and Europe. The iconography of was slightly changed in the way that Jesus appears as a child in his mother's arms, while Mary showed the heart of her son.''Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. 31 de mayo''
/ref> In 1910,

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granted a decree of coronation towards one of another image of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart which belongs to the Archconfraternity of the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Averbode Abbey,

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References

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