A white scapular with the two Hearts and the implements of the Passion on one part, and a red cross on the other. It owes its origin to the Daughters of the Sacred Heart, a community founded at Antwerp in 1873. It was approved in 1900. Indulgenced by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius X.
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