Through the Heart of Mary to the Heart of Jesus

This masterpiece traces the historical development of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in relation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and explains its theological foundations. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are united by a “definitive covenant or alliance,” as St. John Paul II taught. By God’s design, the only way to the Heart of Jesus is through the Heart of Mary. While devotion to His Heart is “a summary of all our religion” (Pius XI), devotion to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart sums up all Marian doctrine and devotion. Consequently, devotion to the Two Hearts is not optional, but necessary, and so this book’s topic concerns us all. Father Campbell’s painstaking research has produced a volume of over 1000 pages, some 700 of which is a survey of the development of this devotion so extensive that it will likely remain unsurpassed for many years. He begins with anthropological foundations, Scripture, and the Church Fathers. Then comes the medieval development of the devotion, which i