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The greatest part of the Right Reverend Bishops of the kingdom of Poland, and the association of this city, which bears the title of the Arch confraternity of the most sacred Heart of Jesus, having united their instances for a proper office and mass of the most sacred heart; the Congregation of the Sacred Rites, held the 25th January of the current year, well apprised that the devotion of the Heart of Jesus, under the favourable aspect and influence of the respective bishops, has been extended through most parts of the Christian world, and frequently honoured by the See Apostolic, with thousands of briefs of indulgences, granted to almost innumerable confraternities, canonically erected under the title of the Heart of Jesus, as also understanding that by the petition of the said office and mass nothing more is intended than an extension of this devotion, and under that symbolical figure, a renewal of the memory of that divine love, with which the only begotten Son of God took on