SACRED See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

HEART  . ' Devotion to the Sacred See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

Heart of Jesus is a cult See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to the -See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• OBJECT

object of this devotion is the Saviour Himself . The seEondary and partial object is that Heart which was the seat or See also:

• ORGAN

organ of His love, and which forms the natural See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol thereof . Heart and love are viewed, not physiologically, but in their moral connexion . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief liturgical expressions of this cult are the institution of a feast of the Sacred' Heart and public representations of it by statues and pictures . Private See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of 'See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ's heart in particular is of See also:

• GREAT

great antiquity in the Church, and is prominent in St Gertrude and other mystics . It was greatly stimulated in the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century , by St See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis of Sales (q.v.) who gave this symbol to his See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

Order (the Visitation) as its badge . The See also:

• VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

Venerable Fr . Eudes must also be mentioned as a great propagator of the devotion, in the same century, and he was the first to obtain a certain public, though only " See also:

• LOCAL

local, authorization of the new pious practices . Blessed See also:

• MARGARET
• MARGARET (1283–1290)
• MARGARET (1353-1412)
• MARGARET (1489–1541)
• MARGARET, ST (c. 1045–1093)
• MARGARET, ST (SANCTA MARGARITA)

Margaret See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary See also:

• ALACOQUE, or AL COQ, MARGUERITE MARIE (1647-1690)

Alacoque (1647-169o), a Visitation See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun of ' Paray-le-Monial, assisted by her director, the Venerable See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude de la Colombiere, S.J . (1641-1682), was the See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of the introduction of the specific worship of the Sacred Heartinto the Church by a decision of the supreme authority, although their See also:

• WORK

work only took effect See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long after their See also:

• DEATH

death .

Mary of See also:

• MODENA (ancient Mutina)

Modena, the :exiled See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James II., at the instance of the Visitation, petitioned in 1697 for a proper Feast of the Sacred Heart . Neither then, however, nor on the presentation of new petitions in 1726, was an affirmative See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer obtained . Meanwhile the chief objection, that of " novelty," was gradually removed by the multiplication of local manifestations, the genuineness of which was proved to the See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of the Roman See also:

• CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

Congregation of Rights, and in 1765 it was allowed for houses of the Visitation and certain countries . It must be added that this devotion was strongly opposed, not only by the Jansenists, but by others within the Church, under the mistaken See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that the Heart of Christ was viewed in it as See also:

• SEPARATE

separate from the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of His Being . The formulation of this objection by the See also:

• SYNOD
• SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos)

synod of See also:

• PISTOIA
• PISTOIA, SYNOD OF

Pistoia,l in 1786, however, only provoked a clearer explanation of the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine, which contributed to confirm the cult . In 1856 See also:

• PIUS

Pius IX. introduced the feast into the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• CALENDAR

calendar of the Roman Catholic Church, fixing the See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday after the See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

Octave of Corpus Christi for its celebration . The See also:

• BEATIFICATION (from the Lat. beatus, happy, blessed, and facere, to make)

Beatification of Blessed M.M . AIacoque in 1864 gave a new impetus to the cause of which she had been the apostle . See Nic . Nilles, S.J., De rationibus festorum SS . Cordis Jesu, &c . (3rd ed., See also:

• INNSBRUCK

Innsbruck, 1873); E .

Letrierce, S.J., Etudes sur le Sacre Cceur et la Visitation (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1890) . These two See also:

• WORKS

works contain See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical lists . See also:

• DALGAIRNS, JOHN DOBREE (1818-1876)

Dalgairns, The Devotion to the Heart of Jesus (1853); H . E . See also:

• MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (1808-1892)

Manning, The Glories of the Sacred Heart (1876); Jos . Nix, Cult= SS . Cordis Jesu... cum additamento de cultu purissimi cordis B.V . Mariae (2nd ed., See also:

• FREIBURG

Freiburg-i.-B., 1891) . (H . B .