Solemnity
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Feast day
- June 27
Life
The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrates the boundless love of Christ for humanity, symbolized by his pierced heart. Devotion to the Sacred Heart spread widely through the visions of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a seventeenth-century Visitation nun at Paray-le-Monial in France. Pope Pius IX extended the feast to the universal Church in 1856, and it is observed on the Friday after Corpus Christi.
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