Our Lady of the Sacred Heart


Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Father Jules Chevalier in 1857. Mary is showing the Child Jesus´s heart while Jesus points to his mother.

History

In 1854, in Issoudun, during the ninth of the Immaculate Conception, Father Jules Chevalier promises that if his dream of forming a missionary congregation in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus becomes a reality, he will teach the faithful to love Mary of a special way.
During various ninths made to the Virgin Mary, Chevalier obtained several economic donations that allow him to build the Basilica of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Issoudun and in 1857 hi consolidated him Brotherhood and gave Mary the new name:

Iconography

created in 1861 a stained-glass window where Mary and Jesus of feet appear, the boy touches his heart with the left hand and with his right he points to his mother in high, sending the message that through Mary the faithful can reach the heart of Jesus. In 1868 the Pope Pius IX blesses a pair of crowns which are placed in the stained-glass window of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Congregation becomes an Archconfraternity.
At the end of the 19th century, this devotion spreads throughout America and Europe, so the Vatican decides to make changes in the image, and begins the representation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus while still a child and in the arms of his mother, while Mary shows the heart of his son.

Prayer

Remember, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, what ineffable power thy divine Son hath given thee over His own adorable Heart. Full of trust in thy merits, we come before thee and beg thy protection. O heavenly Treasurer of the Heart of Jesus, that Heart which is the inexhaustible source of all graces, which thou mayest open to us at thy good pleasure, in order that from it may flow forth upon mankind the riches of love and mercy, light and salvation, that are contained therein; grant unto us, we beseech thee, the favors which we seek.... We can never, never be refused by thee, and since thou art our Mother, O our Lady of the Sacred Heart, graciously hear our prayers and grant our request. Amen.