St. Margaret Mary Alacoque — whose feast day is celebrated in the Catholic Church on Oct. 16 — was a French nun responsible for spreading the devotion of the Sacred Heart throughout the ...

Using the heart as a powerful representation of the embodied core of human existence has biblical, and even pre-Christian ...

The feast dates back to 1673, when a French nun, belonging to the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (Visitandines) in eastern France, began to receive visions about the Sacred Heart.

As part of the Sacred Heart Columbus ... near to the breast of Jesus so he could be close to his heart. Dailey said the devotion also traces its roots to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French ...

Father Kubicki’s talks are “The True Love Story” (June 1); “Encountering the Heart of Jesus in the Word and Sacrament” (June ...

The community is a pilgrimage site for the relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun in the convent there to whom Jesus revealed his sacred heart in 1671. Borgman spoke about his life and the ...

The Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is an international community of Roman Catholic women founded by Saint Raphaela Mary Porras, who believed that our congregation should be “universal like the ...

Margaret Mary Alacoque ... She heard Jesus tell her that he wanted to show his love for people by encouraging a special devotion to his Sacred Heart. Christ revealed ways to venerate his ...

Jesus appeared to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque and revealed ways to venerate his Sacred Heart and explained the immense love he has for humanity, appearing with his heart visible outside his ...