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The Sacred Heart and ‘Cordial Affections’ in Polish Baroque Religious Poetry
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The article presents scenes of the piercing of the Sacred Heart from the Passion poems of Wacław Potocki and Wespazjan Kochowski, as well as poetic visions of the bond between the Heart of God and the human heart as depicted in the lives of selected saints from the manuscript hagiographic series entitled New Spiritual Heavens (1692). The author argues that while in the second half of the seventeenth century the influence of devotion to the Sacred Heart itself on the poetic imagination of Polish authors is still barely visible, a combination of inspiration from the cult of the pierced Heart of the Saviour with cordial piety – a type of piety with distinctly ascetic and mystical features, embedded in Christological theology and aimed at stimulating the faithful to delve deeper into the mysteries of the Saviour's love for man – bears very interesting literary fruit.
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The Sacred Heart, 17th century Polish religious poetry, Baroque hagiography, Cordial piety, „Nowe niebo duchowne” [New Spiritual Heavens]Details
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