On December 27, 1673, on the Feast of St.

Little by little the devotions separated and the first feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was celebrated on August 31, 1670. He shared devotion to the Sacred Heart along with his devotion to the Immaculate Heart. Eudes made the devotion public in the seventeenth century, gave it an Office, and established a feast for it. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries the devotion was practiced by different congregations such as Franciscans, Dominicans and Carthusians but remained an individual or private devotion. Passages from the published work “Vitis mystica” inspired the devotion and were used by the Church for the lessons of the Second Nocturn of the feast. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, devotion to the Sacred Heart arose in Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries. It is the love He shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit for humanity. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a special form of devotion to the physical heart of Jesus.