Sacred Heart of Jesus · Eyd-e Qalb-e Moqaddas-e Isa

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Australia (national) · Canada (federal) · Christianity · France · Germany (nationwide) · United Kingdom (England and Wales) · United States (federal)

The feast of the Sacred Heart honours Jesus's heart as the symbol of his love for humanity. The devotion spread from the visions of the French nun Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s, and Pope Pius IX extended the feast to the whole Latin Church in 1856. It falls on the Friday after the second Sunday after Pentecost, between May 29 and July 2, and is a solemnity of the Catholic Church.