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71-448: Barinas may refer to: Places [ edit ] Spain Barinas (Spain) Venezuela Barinas (state) , one of the 23 states which make up the country Barinas, Barinas , a city in the state of Barinas Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas Barinas Municipality , a municipio in the state of Barinas Barinas Province ,

142-752: A Mass honoring the mystery of the Sacred Heart. In 1693 the Holy See imparted indulgences to the Confraternities of the Sacred Heart, and in 1697 granted the feast to the Visitandines with the Mass of the Five Wounds, but refused a feast common to all, with special Mass and Office. The devotion spread, particularly in religious communities. The Marseille plague in 1720 furnished perhaps

213-564: A better grasp of Latin, that she might better understand the word of God and sing God's praise. Christ granted her request and Lutgarde's mind was flooded with the riches of psalms, antiphons, readings, and responsories. However, a painful emptiness persisted. She returned to Christ, asking to return his gift, and wondering if she might, just possibly, exchange it for another. "And for what would you exchange it?" Christ asked. "Lord, I would exchange it for your Heart." Christ then reached into Lutgarde and, removing her heart, replaced it with his own, at

284-585: A contemporary context. Worship of the Sacred Heart mainly consists of several devotions , practices, consecrations , hymns , the salutation of the Sacred Heart, and the Litany of the Sacred Heart . It is common in Roman Catholic services. Since c.  1850 , groups, congregations, and countries have consecrated themselves to the Sacred Heart. By a law voted on 24 July 1873, the Basilica of

355-456: A day with which the Eudist feast was from then on to be connected. The feast soon spread to other dioceses, and the devotion was likewise adopted in various religious communities. It gradually came into contact with the devotion begun by Margaret Mary Alacoque at Paray-le-Monial , and the two merged. The most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in the form it is known today

426-558: A feast for it. John Eudes is regarded as "tireless apostle of the devotion of the Sacred Hearts", entitling him as 'Father', doctor and apostle of the liturgical cult of the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Little by little, the devotion to the Sacred Hearts became distinct, and on 31 August 1670 the first feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was celebrated in the Grand Seminary of Rennes . Coutances followed suit on October 20,

497-450: A few reflections on the usefulness of the devotion. This journal, including the account – an "offering" to the Sacred Heart in which the devotion was explained – was published at Lyon in 1684. The little book was widely read, especially at Paray-le-Monial. Margaret Mary reported feeling "dreadful confusion" over the book's contents, but resolved to make the best of it, approving of the book for the spreading of her cherished devotion. Along with

568-492: A former province, in existence from 1786 to 1864 Other uses [ edit ] Barinas (harvestman) , a genus of the Agoristenidae family of harvestmen See also [ edit ] Holden Barina , an automobile Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Barinas . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

639-785: A somewhat lesser extent the two Mechthildes – experienced this devotion centrally in their mystical visions. In the 16th century, the devotion passed from the domain of mysticism into that of Christian asceticism . It was established as a devotion with prayers already formulated and special exercises, found in the writings of Lanspergius (d. 1539) of the Carthusians of Cologne, the Benedictine Louis de Blois (d. 1566) Abbot of Liessies in Hainaut , John of Avila (d. 1569), and Francis de Sales (d. 1622). The historical record from that time shows an early bringing to light of

710-401: Is 6,510 as of 2011. Agriculture has a high weight in the municipality. 28.8% of the territory is used as crops lands. The most wide grown products are the citrus, the almonds and the grapes. Almost 55.2% of the agreements were made for agriculture and fishing activities in 2019 and 30.15% of the workers signed agreements for work as labourers. 29.6% of the agreements were written for posts in

781-618: Is a Spanish municipality located in the Comarca Oriental (composed by Fortuna and Abanilla) in the Autonomous Community of Murcia . It lies close to the border of the province of Alicante in the Autonomous Community of Valencia . Abanilla occupies a surface area of 236.6 km and is situated 222 metres above sea level. It lies on a natural foundation which has been degraded by a number of aggregate and marble quarries . A karstic paleontological site

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852-465: Is enhanced by the high quality oil pressed in local mills in the ancient custom. The International Folklore Festival is an important event which takes place in the first week of August. Between 23 April and 9 May, the festivals of Santa Cruz take place, featuring parades of Moors and Christians . In addition, from June through to the middle of September, the various communities celebrate their own individual festivals. Sacred Heart The devotion

923-417: Is especially concerned with what the church deems to be the long-suffering love and compassion of the heart of Christ towards humanity. The popularization of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a Roman Catholic nun from France , Margaret Mary Alacoque , who said she learned the devotion from Jesus during a series of apparitions to her between 1673 and 1675, and later, in the 19th century, from

994-641: Is he who hangs on the cross for you. His death brings the dead to life, but at his passing heaven and earth are plunged into mourning and hard rocks are split asunder. It was a divine decree that permitted one of the soldiers to open his sacred side with a lance. This was done so that the Church might be formed from the side of Christ as he slept the sleep of death on the cross, and so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: 'They shall look on him whom they pierced'. The blood and water, which poured out at that moment, were

1065-517: Is located on the southeast slope of the Sierra de Quibas in an abandoned limestone quarry. Researchers have discovered vertebrate and invertebrate fossils at this site. They collected rodent fossils and used dental patterns to identify these to be of the Muroidea subfamily Arvicolinae . Using stratigraphic and sedimentological features in the limestone, the scientists were able to date these fossils to

1136-561: Is the alcazaba (Arab fortification) of the town. The king of the Taifa of Murcia signed the Treaty of Alcaraz, which consisted in conferring vassalage to the Crown of Castile, in 1243. Muslims were allowed to stay, and keep their religion, customs, organisations, etc. provided they paid extra taxes. In this era, Abanilla ceases being part of Orihuela because the first one belonged to Castile and

1207-497: The Blessed Sacrament as much as possible. He gave her his heart as a pledge of his love, as a place of refuge during her life and as her consolation at the hour of her death. From this time Mechtilde had an extraordinary devotion for the Sacred Heart, and said that if she had to write down all the favors and all the blessings which she had received by means of this devotion, a large book would not contain them. Gertrude

1278-507: The Bull of Canonization of Margaret Mary Alacoque on 13 May 1920, Pope Benedict XV encouraged the practice of this act of reparation of the first nine fridays in honor of the Sacred Heart. Pope Pius XII , on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pius IX's institution of the feast, instructed the entire Latin Church at length on the devotion to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Haurietis aquas of 15 May 1956. On 15 May 2006,

1349-963: The Early Pleistocene subepoch. Points of interest in Abanilla include the Old Town (containing the monument to the Corazón de Jesús), the Fuente de Algarrobo (Fountain of the carob tree), the Santuario de Mahoya (Sanctuary of Mahoya), and the Iglesia Parroquial de San José (Parochial Church of St. Joseph). Other sights worth visiting include the source of the River Chícamo and the mountains of Abanilla and Quibas. Buildings of monumental significance in Abanilla include

1420-586: The Franciscans , Dominicans , and Carthusians . Among the Franciscans the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has its champions in Bonaventure (d. 1274) in his Vitis Mystica ("Mystic Vine") and John de la Verna. Bonaventure wrote: "Who is there who would not love this wounded heart? Who would not love in return Him, who loves so much?" It was, nevertheless, a private, individual devotion of

1491-789: The La Iglesia de San José (the Church of San José) (18th century), El Sagrado Corazón ( Sacred Heart ) in Abanilla Town and Barinas, La Casa de la Encomienda , La Casa Cabrera , La Casa Pintada , El Monumento a las Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos (the Monument to the Festivals of the Moors and Christians) and La casa del francés (the French's house). There is a destroyed medieval enceinte in Abanilla. Local communities within

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1562-556: The apparitions of Christ reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque . This devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was fully approved by the Catholic Church and a "Great Promise" of final penance was made to those who practice the First Fridays Devotion. The devotion consists of several practices that are performed on the first Fridays of nine consecutive months. On these days, a person is to attend Mass and receive

1633-531: The 50th anniversary of that encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to Peter Hans Kolvenbach , the Superior General of the Society of Jesus , reaffirming the importance of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On 24 October 2024, Pope Francis published his fourth encyclical, the 28,000-word Dilexit nos ("He loved us"), which addresses the importance of the devotion to the Sacred Heart in

1704-586: The Abanilla municipality include the following. There has been presence of human beings since the Paleolithic. Lithic workplaces corresponding to that era were found in the Southern half of the municipality. This current municipality was also inhabited by people during the first centuries of the Ancient Era (from the 5th century to the 3rd in this case) by Iberians. There is a former settlement in

1775-556: The Eucharist. If the need arises, in order to receive communion in a state of grace, a person should also make use of the sacrament of penance before attending Mass. Alacoque stated that she received a vision of Jesus in which she was instructed to spend an hour every Thursday night as a reparation and to pray and meditate on his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane . This practice later became widespread among Roman Catholics and became

1846-454: The Garden of Gethsemane. Her prayers intended to ask mercy for sinners as well as to make reparation for the abandonment Jesus felt from his apostles in the garden. This practice is now known as the " Holy Hour " and is also frequently performed during an hour of Eucharistic adoration . During the octave of Corpus Christi in 1675, probably on June 16, the vision known as the "great revelation" reportedly took place, where Jesus said: "Behold

1917-583: The Great was an early devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Book 2 of the Herald of Divine Love ( Latin : Legatus divinæ pietatis ) vividly describes Gertrude's visions, which show a considerable elaboration on the hitherto ill-defined veneration of Christ's heart. Bernard articulated this in his commentary on the Song of Songs . The women of Helfta – Gertrude foremost, who surely knew Bernard's commentary, and to

1988-464: The Great . The Sacred Heart is often depicted in Christian art as a flaming heart shining with divine light, pierced by the lance-wound, encircled by the crown of thorns , surmounted by a cross, and bleeding. Sometimes, the image is shown shining within the bosom of Christ with his wounded hands pointing at the heart. The wounds and crown of thorns allude to the manner of Christ's passion , while

2059-630: The Northwest end it also occurs in Fortuna and Jumilla and another one in the south. There were also people inhabitance and structures corresponding to the period when Romans ruled the Iberian Peninsula. A Roman road ( via romana ) traversed Abanilla and there are remains of it. Another site dating back from that era is a former Roman villa. A war with conquer purposes begin in the Iberian Peninsula in 711. Muslim peoples intended to rule

2130-586: The Sacred Heart of Montmartre known as National Vow , is declared of public utility by the National Assembly of 1871. On 16 June 1875, the Archbishop of Paris , Cardinal Guibert layed the first stone of the basilica, honoring after two hundred years the fourth request of Jesus reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque from 16 June 1675. On 25 March 1874, by petition of president Gabriel García Moreno and archbishop José Ignacio Checa y Barba, Ecuador

2201-468: The Sacred Heart are found in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the fervent atmosphere of the Benedictine or Cistercian monasteries . It is impossible to say with certainty what were its first texts or who were its first devotees. Bernard of Clairvaux ( d. 1153) said that the piercing of Christ's side revealed his goodness and the charity of his heart for humanity. The earliest known hymn to

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2272-462: The Sacred Heart image. (Enthroning the Sacred Heart in a home should not be confused with the practice of having a priest bless a home, which is customarily done when a family first occupies a new home.) The presence of a priest is not required for an Enthronement. The practice of the home enthronement of the Sacred Heart was started by R. Mateo Crawley-Boevey, a priest of the Congregation of

2343-588: The Sacred Heart of Jesus (also referred as Church of the Good Shepherd or Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) was built between 14 July 1957 and 21 April 1966, in the civil parish of Ermesinde in north Portugal , and consecrated to the Heart of Christ in fulfillment of the vow made by the nun. She is buried in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Ermesinde . In 1353, Pope Innocent VI instituted

2414-688: The Sacred Heart of Jesus on 8 June 1899. The following day, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . Mary of the Divine Heart said that in her mystical experiences Jesus Christ inspired her to build a shrine dedicated to his Sacred Heart. According to the writings of Sister Mary of the Divine Heart, Jesus said: "I will make it a place of graces. I will distribute copiously graces to all who live in this house [the convent], those who live here now, those who will live here after, and even to their relatives." She did not live to see this come to fruition. The imposing Church of

2485-612: The Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Pius X also granted a Pontifical decree for the imposition of a golden crown to the lowly foot of a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Nevers Cathedral on 9 July 1908 (via the Archbishop of Nevers and Besancon , Francois Leon Gauthey, both signed and notarized by the Sacred Congregation of Rites ). By inserting the "Great Promise" of the First Fridays Devotion into

2556-481: The Sacred Heart, "Summi Regis Cor Aveto" , is believed to have been written by the Norbertine Herman Joseph (d. 1241) of Cologne, Germany. The hymn begins: "I hail Thee kingly Heart most high." From the 13th to the 16th centuries, the devotion was propagated but it did not seem to have been embellished. It was everywhere practised by individuals and by different religious congregations, such as

2627-517: The Sacred Heart, making him the first person to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus after Margaret Mary, and began spreading the devotion. De la Colombière directed her to write an account of the apparitions, which he discreetly circulated in France and England. After his death on 15 February 1682, his journal of spiritual retreats was found to contain a copy in his handwriting of the account that he had requested of Margaret Mary, together with

2698-665: The Sacred Heart. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church . It is celebrated on the third Friday after Pentecost , which was up until the changes in the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII referred to as the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi. It is the last feast day of the year that is dependent on the date of Easter . The acts of consecration , reparation , and devotion were introduced when

2769-399: The Sacred Heart. The First Fridays Devotion , which is the reception of Holy Communion on nine first Fridays of each month, was revealed to her through a "Great Promise" of final penance granted to those who practice this act of reparation . Margaret Mary also said that she was instructed to spend an hour every Thursday night, from eleven to midnight, to pray and meditate on Jesus' agony in

2840-825: The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary , in 1907, having visited the apparition chapel in Paray-le-Monial . Enthronement of the Sacred Heart is promoted by the National Enthronement Center in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the Sacred Heart Apostolate of Knoxville, Tennessee, Sacred Heart Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, and the Sacred Heart Enthronement Network, a 501(c)(3) located in Columbus, Ohio. It

2911-469: The Visitandines, priests, religious , and laymen espoused the devotion, particularly the Capuchins . The reported apparitions served as a catalyst for the promotion of the devotion to the Sacred Heart. In 1691 Jesuit priest John Croiset wrote a book called De la Dévotion au Sacré Cœur , and Joseph de Gallifet promoted the devotion. The mission of propagating the new devotion was especially confided to

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2982-447: The consecration of the human race performed by Leo XIII be renewed each year. Pius XI affirmed the church's position with respect to Margaret Mary Alacoque's visions of Jesus Christ by stating that Jesus had "manifested Himself" to Alacoque and had "promised her that all those who rendered this honor to his Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces." The encyclical reaffirmed the importance of consecration and reparation to

3053-585: The devotion of the Holy Hour , a devotional tradition of spending an hour in prayers or in Eucharistic adoration in the presence of the Eucharist. The Act of enthroning the Sacred Heart entails placing an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a place of honor in the home after a time of prayerful preparation. Many families will also place an image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in tandem with

3124-415: The devotion to his Sacred Heart. Right after this, she had a vision of his heart with a crown of thorns, surrounded by flames and above which a cross was planted. This representation will become the popular image of the Sacred Heart which Margaret Mary used to propagate the devotion. Between 1674 and 1675, other apparitions followed in which Jesus Christ revealed to Alacoque different forms of devotion to

3195-809: The devotion. Ascetic writers spoke of it, especially those of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was everywhere in evidence, largely due to the Franciscan devotion to the Five Wounds and to the Jesuits placing the image on the title-page of their books and on the walls of their churches. The first to establish the theological basis for the devotion was Polish Jesuit Kasper Drużbicki (1590–1662) in his book Meta cordium – Cor Jesu ( The goal of hearts – Heart of Jesus ). Not much later John Eudes wrote an office, and promoted

3266-413: The feast of the Sacred Heart was declared. Some Anglican Franciscans keep the feast under the name (The) Divine Compassion of Christ . The month of June is traditionally devoted in a special way to the veneration of the Sacred Heart. Masses, novenas, and the recitation of devotional prayers in honor of the Sacred Heart are traditionally observed. A personal prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart

3337-458: The first occasion for a solemn consecration and public worship outside of religious communities. Other cities of southern Europe followed the example of Marseille. After Pope Leo XIII received correspondence from Mary of the Divine Heart asking him to consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he commissioned a group of theologians to examine the petition on the basis of revelation and sacred tradition. The outcome of this investigation

3408-424: The flames represent a furnace of ardent love. Historically, the devotion to the Sacred Heart is an outgrowth of devotion to what is believed to be Christ's sacred humanity. During the first ten centuries of Christianity, there is nothing to indicate that any worship was rendered to the wounded Heart of Jesus. The revival of religious life and the zealous activity of Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi in

3479-538: The great precursors of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A contemporary of Francis of Assisi, she "entered upon the mystical life with a vision of the pierced Heart of the Saviour, and had concluded her mystical espousals with the Incarnate Word by an exchange of hearts with Him." Sources say that Christ came in a visitation to Lutgarde, offering her whatever gift of grace she should desire; she asked for

3550-493: The heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love; and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for me in this sacrament of love." He then asked Margaret Mary for a feast of reparation of the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, bidding her consult her confessor Claude de la Colombière , then superior of

3621-595: The influence of Mary of the Divine Heart and in response to demands received over 25 years. On 19 May 1908, a particular family consecration prayer known as the Act of Consecration of the Family to the Sacred Heart was approved and granted with an indulgence by Pope Pius X . The First Fridays Devotion is a devotion to offer reparations for sins to the Eucharist and in honor of the Sacred Heart, which had its origin in

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3692-571: The last vision and private revelation was reported during her presence as mother superior in the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Porto , Portugal. Based on the messages she said she received in her revelations of Christ, on 10 June 1898 her confessor at the Good Shepherd monastery wrote to Pope Leo XIII stating that Mary of the Divine Heart had received a message from Christ, requesting

3763-412: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barinas&oldid=818230521 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barinas (Spain) Abanilla

3834-816: The mystical order. Nothing of a general movement had been inaugurated, except for similarities found in the devotion to the Five Holy Wounds by the Franciscans, in which the wound in Jesus's heart figured most prominently. Bonaventure's Opusculum 3, Lignum vitae (a part from which is the reading for the Divine Office on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart) refers to the heart as the fountain from which God's love poured into one's life: Take thought now, redeemed man, and consider how great and worthy

3905-418: The mystical revelations of another Catholic nun in Portugal , Mary of the Divine Heart , a religious sister of the congregation of the Good Shepherd , who requested in the name of Christ that Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Predecessors to the modern devotion arose unmistakably in the Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism , particularly with Gertrude

3976-414: The peninsula and conquered large part of it from the starting year to 726. The nobleman Theodemir did an agreement with the governor Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa in 713 which name is Treaty of Orihuela. The treaty lead Abd al-Aziz to rule territory between Vinalopó and Segura rivers. Consequently, Abanilla had dependency on Orihuela during the Muslim Iberian Peninsula era. A structure that originated in that period

4047-407: The pope to consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart. The pope initially attached no credence to it and took no action. However, on 6 January 1899 she sent another letter asking that in addition to the consecration, the first Fridays of the month be observed in honor of the Sacred Heart. Mary of the Divine Heart died in her monastery in Portugal when the church was singing the first vespers of

4118-399: The price of our salvation. Flowing from the secret abyss of our Lord's heart as from a fountain, this stream gave the sacraments of the Church the power to confer the life of grace, while for those already living in Christ it became a spring of living water welling up to life everlasting. According to Thomas Merton , Lutgarde (d. 1246), a Cistercian mystic of Aywieres , Belgium, was one of

4189-404: The religious of the Visitation and to the priests of the Society of Jesus. Alacoque said that in her apparitions Jesus promised specific blessings to those who practice devotion to his Sacred Heart. The last promise, also called the "Great Promise", is a promise of final penance granted to those who practice the First Fridays Devotion. Another source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

4260-441: The same time hiding her heart within his breast. Mechtilde of Helfta (d. 1298) became an ardent devotee and promoter of Jesus' heart after it was the subject of many of her visions. The idea of hearing the heartbeat of God was very important to medieval saints who nurtured devotion to the Sacred Heart. Mechtilde reported that Jesus appeared to her in a vision and commanded her to love him ardently, and to honor his sacred heart in

4331-476: The second one to Aragon. In 1613, the king Ferdinand III of Castile ruled the expulsion of the Muslims. As there were rather many of them in Abanilla (over 1,000), the town turned out not to have enough workers for land labouring and that caused an economic downturn, which lasted for a century. There had been an increase in population in the 18th century and there were over 7,000 inhabitants in that century. New dwellings and buildings were necessarily built beyond

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4402-411: The small Jesuit house at Paray-le-Monial. This request was transmitted and the feast of the Sacred Heart was progressively instituted throughout the Church. The feast later became a solemnity in the liturgical calendar , a feast of the highest rank, celebrated eight days after the Feast of Corpus Christi just as Jesus requested. On 21 June 1675, following that apparition, Claude consecrated himself to

4473-418: The tertiary sector and 9.73% were signed by waiters. 10% were signed by fabrication labourers. Typical local dishes include home-made sausages, paella with rabbit and snails, gachasmigas . In particular, desserts include fruit from the fertile orchards, such as the region's renowned Damascus apricots. Traditional confectionery includes doughnuts, sweetbreads, muffins and typical Christmas sweets. All this

4544-584: The town-surrounding wall. Many important buildings of the municipality were constructed during this century. In the third quarter of the 20th century, water canals were built in Abanilla and drinking water supply begin to exist in the municipality. The mayor of Abanilla was Álvaro Gaona (Partido Independiente) from 1979 to 1983, José Luís Cutillas Rivera ( Partido Socialista Obrero Español ) from 1983 to 1987, Fernando Molina Parra ( Partido Popular ) from 1987 to 2015 and Ezequiel Alonso Gaona ( Partido Socialista Obrero Español ) from 2015. The population of Abanilla

4615-407: The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, together with the enthusiasm of the Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, gave a rise to devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ and particularly to practices in honour of the Sacred Wounds . Devotion to the Sacred Heart developed out of the devotion to the Holy Wounds, in particular to the Sacred Wound in the side of Jesus. The first indications of devotion to

4686-405: Was Mary of the Divine Heart (1863–1899), a religious sister from the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd , who reported to have received several interior locutions and visions of Jesus Christ. The first interior locution Mary of the Divine Heart reported was during her youth spent with the family in the Castle of Darfeld  [ de ] , near Münster , Germany, and

4757-528: Was Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), a nun of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary , who claimed to have received Sacred Heart revelations from Jesus Christ between 1673 and 1675 in the Burgundian French village of Paray-le-Monial . The first apparition took place on 27 December 1673, the day of the feast of Saint John the Evangelist , during which Jesus allowed Margaret Mary to rest her head upon his heart, telling her that he wanted to make his love known to all mankind and that he had chosen her to spread

4828-455: Was officially consecrated to the Sacred Heart by King Alfonso XIII . In the Catholic tradition , the Sacred Heart has been closely associated with Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ . In his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor , Pope Pius XI stated: "The spirit of expiation or reparation has always had the first and foremost place in the worship given to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus." The Golden Arrow Prayer directly refers to

4899-488: Was positive, and in 1899 he decreed that the consecration of the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus should take place on 11 June 1899. The encyclical letter also encouraged the entire Roman Catholic episcopate to promote the First Friday Devotions , established June as the Month of the Sacred Heart, and included the Prayer of Consecration to the Sacred Heart . The idea of this act, which Leo XIII called "the great act" of his pontificate. Pope Pius X decreed that

4970-449: Was the first country in the world to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart by legislative decree. Since then, more than twenty countries have followed and consecrated themselves either by decree or at the initiative of their respective national Church, some of which renewed their consecration a few times. On 22 June 1902, Colombia was consecrated by decree with the agreement of president José Manuel Marroquín . On 30 May 1919, Spain

5041-432: Was written by Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque , allegedly under the inspiration of Jesus, which she wrote to the priest John Croiset, recommending that he include it in the book he was to publish about her revelations "It comes from Him, and He would not agree to its omission." On 25 may 1899, Pope Leo XIII wrote an Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Annum sacrum , with

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