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 | | The basilica was built with private donations collected by the people of France in reparation for the violence done to priests, nuns, and lay Catholics, as well as to Catholic institutions, in the French Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871. |
 | | By the time the building of the basilica began, the twin devotions to the Sacred Heart of Our Savior and to the Immaculate Heart of His Mother had taken strong hold in France, and were spreading around the world. |
 | | The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi. |
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