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Sacred Heart

Also known as Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic devotion to the physical heart of Jesus as a symbol of divine love, spread widely from the seventeenth century after the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque in France. In the nineteenth century it became a symbol of Catholic and conservative politics. In 1873 Gabriel García Moreno consecrated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart, the first nation to be so dedicated.

Sacred Heart
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sacred Heart. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sacred-heart
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