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Sacred Heart (Roman Church the physical)

in the Roman Church, the physical heart of Christ, considered, not as mere flesh, but as united to the divinity. It is the object of a special devotion, founded in the_latter part of the 17th century by a French nun of the Order of the Visitation, Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque (beatified in 1864), and first preached in England by Father de la Colombière, S. J., chaplain to Mary of Modena, queen of James II.

The feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the Friday (in England on the Sunday) after the octave of Corpus Christi.