Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church in

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The church is of Gothic design, the foundation stone was laid on March 25, 1874, attended by Félix María Arrieta y Llano,

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, and John Baptist Scandella, Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar, although it was not formally blessed until July 15, 1888. Amongst the parish priests of this church was Charles Caruana who went on to be the

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between 1998 and 2010. In the patio of the church is a grotto dedicated to

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Sacred Heart The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This dev ...

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