At 12:40 19/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Did devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, depicted as pierced with a
>sword (see Luke), take its modern shape in the same period as devotion to
>the Sacred Heart achieved its most familiar form?
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>tom izbicki
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>According to the ODCC, Devotion to the heart of Mary was first seriously
fostered in the 17th cent. by st John Eudes, who linked it closely with the
cult of the Sacred heart of Jesus. In 1805 Pius VII allowed the observance
of a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary; in 1855 a proper Mass, based on texts
proposed by Eudes, was authorized for use in some places, and an Office
followed in 1857. Words attributed to the BVM at Fatima popularized the
cult; in 1942 Pius XII consecrated the world (think big!)to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary and in 1944 he made universal a corresponding feast to be
observed on 22nd August, the Octave Day of the Assumption. In the 1969 RC
calendar this observance became an optional memoria - which is to say it can
be celebrated or not at the discretion of the priest. It is now celebrated
(if at all) on the day after the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, i.e.
the Saturday after the Second Sunday after Pentecost. 22nd August is the
feast of the Queenship (i.e. coronation) of Mary.
None of this looks at all medieval, but I dare say there are medieval
antecedents, which some of our erudite listmembers will be able to identify.
Bill.
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