Sacred Heartn.
1. The heart of Jesus, regarded as an object of devotion; similarly, Sacred Heart of Mary. Feast of the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic Church), a festival observed on the Friday in the week following Corpus Christi; also elliptical.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > body of > heart of
Sacred Heart1765
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sacred Heart > [noun]
Feast of the Sacred Heart1833
1765 (title) The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
1793 J. Berington in Panzani's Memoirs p. xxxii He might be busied in preparing a gay posey of devotion to the sacred heart of Mary.
1813 (title) The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ... And the Little Office of the Sacred Heart.
1823 C. Butler Contin. Butler's Lives Saints 228 The devotion to the sacred Heart was sanctioned by all the prelates of the neighbouring country.
c1829 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 412 Sister Lucy Magdalen Whitechurch of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
1833 M. Arundell Let. 30 June (1894) vii. 47/2 You will pity me however confined to a sick bed during all my favourite feasts, Whit-Sunday, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart!
1853 J. B. Dalgairns Devotion to Heart of Jesus i. 59 Symbols, which are also realities, as the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the Five Wounds, or the Precious Blood of our Lord.
1873 H. E. Manning (title) The Divine Glory of the Sacred Heart.
1881 G. M. Hopkins Serm. (1959) i. iv. 100 (heading) For Sunday June 26 1881 being the Sunday..nearest the Feast of the Sacred Heart (which this year is to be kept on Monday the 27th).
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 393/1 s.v. Heart of Jesus On February 6, 1765, Clement XIII. permitted several churches to celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart, which was extended in 1856 to the whole Church.
1924 E. Leahy tr. Bainvel Devotion to Sacred Heart ii. ii. 103 To St Margaret Mary and her revelations is really due the inception of the devotion to the Sacred Heart in the form that has received the Church's sanction.
1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 25 As Thy Sacred Heart displays Lush Kildare of scented meadows, Roscommon, thin in ash tree shadows,..Kneeling all in silver haze?
1967 K.-H. Kruger & B. Kruger tr. Rahner Theol. Investigations III. xxii. 331 The Sacred Heart devotion in the doctrine and practice of the Church both past and present manifests itself under many aspects and forms.
1977 B. Lucas tr. C. De Foucauld Lett. from Desert iv. 69 I was determined to write..to tell you how close I shall be to you on the feast of the sacred Heart.
2. transferred.
a. A form of prayer used in private devotions to the Sacred Heart.
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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > to Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart1815
1815 J. Milner in F. C. Husenbeth Life J. Milner (1862) xvi. 288 Spiritual Reading afternoon.—Grace, Rosary, Sacred Heart.
1881 G. M. Hopkins Serm. (1959) i. iv. 102 When we say the Sacred Heart it is of Christ himself we are thinking and not of his heart only.
b. A devotional picture of the Sacred Heart.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > religious
angelc1425
Madonna1648
adoration1662
Buddha1829
nativity scene1855
Holy Family1875
Pantocrator1911
Sacred Heart1931
1931 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 44 413 Pictures of Saints, etc., are used also [in voodoo magic in America]... Sacred Heart of Jesus. For organic diseases.
1941 A. White Let. 22 Mar. in Hound & Falcon (1965) 108 I prefer the Catholic Church with all the awful Sacred Hearts and Little Flowers and the rest to the still more awful bleak ‘tastefulness’ of the others.
1977 M. Kenyon Rapist iv. 40 Above the door..hung the Sacred Heart in lurid primaries.
3. Used as (part of) the name of several religious orders and of schools run by them; frequently attributive and elliptical.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > church school
parish school1711
church school1714
parochial school1714
schola cantorum1728
choir school1873
Sacred Heart1883
1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly July 33/2 The modern buildings (of the Sacred Heart)..are in the vulgar taste which seems doomed to stamp itself on all new Catholic work.
1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree ii. 20 A girl who was at the Sacred Heart in Paris with me.
1919 T. S. Eliot Sweeney among Nightingales in Poems The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart.
1965 A. White Hound & Falcon 20 Even in my day Tunbridge Wells was always said to be much less strict... [Note] Another Sacred Heart convent.
1973 Guardian 25 Apr. 15/3 Mr Joe Faye..of the Sacred Heart School, Redcar... The 12-man governing board of Sacred Heart (a Catholic maintained school.)
1974 V. Canning Mask of Memory i. 19 Gave the sweets to the Sacred Heart children on the beach.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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