| Sumario: | "This book accompanies the exhibition entitled, "A tout cœur. L'art pour le Sacré Cœur de la Visitation", presented at the Museum of the Visitation Moulins, from May 7 to December 24, 2013. On 25 May 1671, at the age of 24 years, Margaret Mary entered the monastery of the Visitation at Paray-le-Monial, and made her perpetual vows in November 1672. Shortly after entering the monastery, she receives according, to her own testimony, several private apparitions of Christ, the most famous in June 1675. Therefore, feeling invested in the mission of establishing a special devotion to the Sacred Heart, supported by her spiritual director Jesuit Father Claude La Colombiere, Margaret Mary shares the message that Jesus sent to her. It is then propagated into an image of the Sacred Heart surrounded by golden rays and flames of fire, with the center of the word charitas, that is to say, charity, the image of the Word made flesh, the second person of the Trinity, God's love, incarnated in a human heart. This message of the Sacred Heart had a great impact in the Visitations of the world, inspiring nuns in their artistic creations, causing orders and donations during the beatification on 18 September 1864 and the canonization May 13, 1920 in Sainte-Marguerite Marie Alacoque. The Monastery of Paray-le-Monial received since pilgrims and gifts from the five continents. Often depicted in Christian art as a flaming heart shining with divine light, because bleeding has been pierced by the spear of the Roman soldier Longinus, surrounded by a crown of thorns and surmounted by a small cross, the Sacred Heart gave birth in the monasteries of the Visitation in a vast creative movement through amazing works from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, collected and presented for the first time in the museums of the Visitation." -- British Library
|
|---|
