Her confessor, the then-Jesuit Father Claude La Colombière, (now St ... by Pope Benedict XV on May 13, 1920. Initially, the Vatican was hesitant to declare a feast of the Sacred Heart but ...

Pope Benedict XVI today issued a new ... reflection upon the traditional devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Forty thousand pilgrims flooded St. Peter’s Square under the heat of an early ...

Villa St. Benedict is a boutique senior living community ... and still occupied by the Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart since 1912. The heart of the community is the Sacred Heart Chapel ...

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque ... in 1690 and was canonized by Benedict XV on May 13, 1920. The Vatican was at first hesitant to declare a feast to the Sacred Heart. But as the devotion spread ...