NEW Charms...just in from Paris....
Two Lovely Solid Bronze charms; one a Sacred Heart Charm that was a Souvenir of a Pilgrimage to Montmarte (See French inscription in photo) with Jesus on the reverse, the other a Good Luck Four Leaf Clover. Talk about a bit of protection!!!!
Both pieces are cast from the original antique European medal; over a century old, these lovely reproductions are hand crafted in Bronze and aged to a wonderful old world patina.
Delicately balanced on a Crystal and Pearl embellishment on a Blush Crystal chain.
Measurements~ Crystals are 18" long, Pendant is a bit less than 1" tall.
Chain can be ordered any length.
Lynn Konrad
History of the Sacred Heart
The devotion to the Sacred Heart (also known as the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu in Latin) is one of the most widely practiced and well-known Roman Catholic devotions, taking Jesus Christ's physical heart as the representation of His divine love for humanity.
This devotion is predominantly used in the Roman Catholic Church and among some high-church Anglicans and Lutherans. The devotion is especially concerned with what the Church deems to be the love and compassion of the heart of Christ towards humanity, and its long suffering. The origin of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a Roman Catholic nun from France, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned the devotion from Jesus during a series of apparitions to her between 1673 and 1675, and later, in the 19th century, from the mystical revelations of another Roman Catholic nun in Portugal, Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart, a religious of the Good Shepherd, who requested, in the name of Christ that Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Predecessors to the modern devotion arose unmistakably in the Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism.
