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The Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Visual Evolution of a Devotion
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has
been controversial from its beginning in
the life of the French Visitationist nun
Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who
established the devotion after a series of
mystical visions of Christ. Under the
leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder
of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1800,
the devotion was taken around the world
in the course of the nineteenth century.
Wherever it went, the devotion took the
shape of an evolving visual culture. Even
during Alacoque’s lifetime, imagery was a fundamental part of practicing the
devotion. The Sacred Heart of Jesus traces
the unfolding visual biography of the
Sacred Heart, showing how imagery and
visual practice document the history of the
devotion and the remarkable range of its
evolution.
been controversial from its beginning in
the life of the French Visitationist nun
Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who
established the devotion after a series of
mystical visions of Christ. Under the
leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder
of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1800,
the devotion was taken around the world
in the course of the nineteenth century.
Wherever it went, the devotion took the
shape of an evolving visual culture. Even
during Alacoque’s lifetime, imagery was a fundamental part of practicing the
devotion. The Sacred Heart of Jesus traces
the unfolding visual biography of the
Sacred Heart, showing how imagery and
visual practice document the history of the
devotion and the remarkable range of its
evolution.
50 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2008
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September 16, 2019
The book is a good historic work that explains the evolution of the graphic representation of the Sacred Heart devotion. The style of writing is very stiff however and although it provides very valuable historic information, the supernatural aspect of the devotion as well as the concept of revelation isn't being taken serious enough to make this a great read.
May 1, 2026
++Commends on Teilhard de Chardin towards the end. This books succeeds at its aim in conveying the formal-symbolic history of the Sacred Heart, and its progressive "symbolization" over time.
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