Original scientific paper
Offering the Countries of Francis Joseph I. To the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Ladislav (Laszlo) Heka
; Faculty of Law, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Abstract
At the end of his 68-year rule, King Joseph Francis I. conquered the countries he ruled (and thus Croatia) under the protection of the Holy Sacred Heart of Jesus. This happened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 8, 1914. The King’s initiative was joined by the Austrian and Hungarian Bishops’ Conferences that same year and on January 1, 1915, bishops of the Mass prayed solemnly to their bishops to the Holy Sacred Heart of Jesus. This act was repeated next year on the first of January and on the suggestion of the Bishops of Pécs, the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference in 1916 decided to repeat this act in every bishopric new year until the war lasts. Defeat in the war and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy have contributed to its recent forgetting. The Hungarian Bishops’ Conference under the leadership of the Hungarian primate of Cardinal Peter Erdő was renewed the offering of Hungary’s Holy Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Basilica of St. Stephen in Budapest exactly a hundred years later (June 2, 2015). At the very beginning of statehood (1038), Hungary was professed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and immediately before the fall of the Twin Monarchy was entrusted under the protection of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since Croatia was in the state union with Hungary (from 1527 and with Austria) from 1102 to 1918, heavenly protection also applied to it.(from 1527 and with Austria) from 1protection.
Keywords
King Joseph Francis I.; Holy Sacred Heart of Jesus; Hungarian Bishops’Conference Austrian Bishops’ Conference; feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Hrčak ID:
217691
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2018.
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