Counter revolutionary symbols - The Sacred Heart and the Holy Mandylion

 


The Sacred Heart 
In 1675, Our Lord appeared to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque demanding that King Louis XIV consecrate the Kingdom of France to his Sacred Heart and that his heart be imprinted on the fleur-de-lis flag. However, Louis XIV and his successor, Louis XV declined, as a result of their worldliness. King Louis XVI privately consecrated France to the Sacred Heart during the French Revolution but was too late. Louis XVI would later be guillotined.
During the French Revolution, peasants from the Vendee, who were loyal to the French monarchy, took up arms against the French Revolution, with a badge of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the words, Dieu Le Roi, God is King. They were ultimately defeated, and the Bourbon monarchy would be restored after the fall of Napoleon. The last king of France was King Charles X until he was removed by pseudo-king liberal Louis Philippe.
The fame of the Sacred Heart spread. In 1809, the people of Tyrol under Andreas Hofer used the Sacred Heart as a symbol of revolt against Napoleon and his Kingdom of Bavaria, the Mexican Cristeros used the symbol against the Masonic anti-Catholic Calles government, and the Spanish Carlists in the 1800s and the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War used the symbol in the fight against the liberals in the 1800s and the communists in the 1930s.


The Holy Mandylion
The Holy Mandylion of Edessa has its origins when a King of Edessa requested Jesus Christ to come to him. Jesus Christ imprinted his face on a cloth, and the cloth was later given to Saint Jude, who presented the cloth to the King of Edessa. The Mandylion was venerated in Eastern Christianity, and was later taken by Latin Crusaders. The relic is said to have been lost during the French Revolution.
Just like the Sacred Heart, this has been used by militant Catholic/Orthodox soldiers, from Alexander Nevsky in the 1200s, Dmitry Donskoy in 1380, Tsar Ivan The Terrible, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, various Russian Tsars, and recently, both by Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in the Russia Ukraine War. Soldiers use this symbol as a flag on tanks or as a badge attached to their uniforms.

Conclusion:
Both the Sacred Heart and the Holy Mandylion were used in history as a symbol of Catholic resistance. 
As a fan of Catholic militancy, I especially admire them. I give badges of the Sacred Heart and Holy Mandylion in my place to promote traditional Catholicism. They are symbols of those who want to defend our Catholic faith from its enemies.



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