THE CULT OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY. — The questions relating to the cult of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can be reduced to two fundamental ones: its legitimacy and its historical development.
I. LEGITIMITY OF THE CULT PAID TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
This was contested, as was the cult paid to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, especially by the Jansenists of the 17th century, who denounced this cult as new, erroneous, and highly dangerous, resorting to every means, particularly ridicule, to prevent its spread.To properly understand the legitimacy of this