The union of Jesus’ Sacred Heart and Mary’s Immaculate Heart is more than poetic — it’s a spiritual key to understanding God’s love and our response to it. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Future Saints ‘Meet’ Rewind two years to 1899, when two saints of the Sacred Heart “met.” The prior 1898 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception saw Gemma becoming a Barbantine Sister.

In 2023, somebody broke the arm off of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and made off with it. "When they did damage to it, it really broke my heart," Kurtz said.