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This lovely - very unusual- vintage religious art shows the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It has vibrant color and the subtle Folk Art / outsider art qualities. It is made with two layers of wood that seem to have a clear laminate over it. The wood frame is very rustic. It is in good to fair condition. It has a nail hole right on top below the frame. The laminate has what seems like air gap spaces. This is so very unique. If you are into graphic art / pop art / pop culture, this is the piece for you. Please examine the high resolution, high quality photos for exact condition and detail. The frame measures approx. 18" x 13.5" A perfect size for that little nook in your house.
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The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was believed to have started in the 11th century, but the devotion didn’t spread until Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun, began to receive multiple apparitions from Jesus starting in 1673. On December 27, 1673, Jesus appeared to Margaret Mary as she knelt before the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus told her of His great love for mankind and expressed His desire for her to make known His great love to all. Margaret Mary wrote that Jesus revealed to her, “the marvels of His love and the inexplicable secrets of His Sacred Heart.”
Jesus continued to appear to Margaret Mary and made revelations to her until 1675. It wasn’t until 1856, that Pope Pius IX decreed that the feast should be regularly celebrated throughout the world.
During Jesus’ second apparition in 1674, He revealed His Divine Heart to Margaret Mary, and as Margaret Mary described, “presented it to me in a throne of flames, more resplendent than a sun, transparent as crystal, with this adorable wound. And it was surrounded with a crown of thorns, signifying the punctures made in it by our sins, and a cross above signifying that from the first instant of His Incarnation…the cross was implanted into it and from the first moment it was filled with all the sorrow to be inflicted on it by the humiliations, poverty, pain, and scorn His sacred humanity was to endure throughout His life and during His sacred passion.”
During the third apparition, Margaret Mary saw a vision of Jesus with his five wounds “shining like suns,” as He then showed her His heart on fire with love for mankind. He revealed His dismay and sadness that His unyielding love is often ignored and even treated with indifference. He asked Margaret Mary to make up for this thanklessness of so many by receiving Holy Communion often, and particularly on the first Friday of each month. Jesus expressed to Margaret Mary, “Behold this heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to the point of spending itself and being consumed to prove its love to them. And in return, I receive from most men only ingratitude because of their irreverence and sacrileges and the coldness and scorn they have for me in this Sacrament of love… “I will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; my Divine Heart becoming their assured refuge in that hour.”
During the fourth apparition, which became known as the “great apparition,” Jesus instructed Margaret Mary that the Feast of the Sacred Heart be celebrated each year on the Friday following Corpus Christi, in reparation for the coldness many have towards Jesus’ infinite love and compassion.
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