Events Tagged: "Sacred Heart"

St. Gertrude the Great begins receiving visions at Helfta - Christ: 'In My Heart you shall find all treasures of wisdom and knowledge'

St. Gertrude: Receives vision of Sacred Heart as refuge - Christ: 'Come to Me, all you who labor...you shall find rest in the wound of My Heart' - 'In the Heart of My Divinity, I will hide you'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque born - future apostle of Sacred Heart - Heaven preparing response to coming cold rationalism

ST. MARGARET MARY - SACRED HEART REVELATIONS begin at Paray-le-Monial - First apparition - Christ: 'My Divine Heart is so passionately inflamed with love for mankind...It must spread them abroad by your means'

Sacred Heart revelation continues - Christ: 'Behold this Heart which has so loved men that It has spared nothing... In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude'

Great Apparition - Christ reveals 12 promises including First Friday devotion: 'In the excess of the mercy of My Heart, I promise that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance'

St. Claude de la Colombière (Margaret Mary's confessor) confirms visions - Begins spreading Sacred Heart devotion despite Jansenist opposition - 'This devotion is the last effort of His love'

St. Margaret Mary dies - Final vision - Christ: 'Come, My faithful spouse, come receive the crown which I have prepared for you from all eternity' - Sacred Heart devotion spreads despite suppression

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat age 20 founds Sacred Heart Society after vision - will establish 100+ schools

Pope Pius XII issues 'Haurietis Aquas' on Sacred Heart devotion