In 1854, in Issoudun, during the novena of the Immaculate Conception, Father Jules Chevalier promised that if his dream of forming a missionary congregation in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus comes true, he will teach the faithful to love the Virgin Mary in a peculiar way.

[2] Article III – In testimony of gratitude to Mary, they will consider her as their Founder and Sovereign, they will associate her with all her works and they will make her love in a peculiar way.In 1861, Fr.

Chevalier had a stained glass window made, where Mary and Jesus appear standing, the child touches his heart with his left hand and with his right hand points to his mother on high, sending the message that through Mary the faithful can reach the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

In 1868, Pope Pius IX blessed a couple of crowns which are placed in the stained glass window of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, and the congregation became an archconfraternity.

The iconography of was slightly changed in the way that Jesus appears as a child in his mother's arms, while Mary showed the heart of her son.