1-sided Little Angels Greet the SHJ with Roses Garden Flag

Come to Jesus… Invite guests to your Prayer Garden to go to Jesus with their prayers of petition or thanks with a garden flag from Saints_Aplenty on Zazzle! This charming flag features three little angels bringing roses to Jesus. + Here, Jesus is depicted as a youth pointing to His Sacred Heart. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (SHJ) has a long history. Suffice it to say that the SHJ was an especially popular subject for illustration on holy cards at the very end of the 19th century. In 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart. + In art, the Sacred Heart is represented as a wounded flaming heart entwined with thorns and topped with a cross. + Both Jesus and the three little female figures are dressed in pink. As a babe and even as a pre-teen youth, Jesus is often depicted in the art of yesteryear wearing pink. While we associate pink with girls and blue with boys, the reverse was once the custom. As a pastel version of red, pink was once considered a more masculine color than blue. And, red is the color most often associated with the adult Jesus symbolizing His all-encompassing love for mankind, His sacrifice of Himself on the Cross, and His blood shed for our redemption. While there is some doubt in the companion piece (MH 004) as to whether the little female figures are angels or girls, here there is none: The figure on the extreme right is clearly winged. Her wings, reading from top to bottom, are comprised of rows of golden yellow, aqua blue, and rosy pink feathers. The angels all wear headbands and a kind of vest or blouse over their robes patterned with small gold crosses or spots. + In the religious language of flowers, the roses the angels offer to Jesus symbolize Pure Love. + Image Credit (MH 003): Antique image in chromolithography captioned in Latin as Ss. [Sacratissimum] Cor Salvatoris [Most Sacred Heart of the Savior] from a late 19th-early 20th century devotional print (Series No. 2067), originally published by Max Hirmer, Munich, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The original image appears on a small format holy card measuring only about 1.77 in. x 2.75 in. (or 4.5 cm. x 7 cm.). The series was probably aimed at children. Greatly enlarged to fit these flags, the image takes on a not displeasing, almost Impressionist quality.