Since then devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has gradually grown more widespread in the Church, particularly since the apparitions at Fatima. The main difference between the devotions to ...

The high point was reached in 1942/1944 when Pius XII extended the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the universal Church (May 4, 1944) and celebrated her on the Saturday after the Solemnity of ...