Editing Dubliners (section)

===Christ in ''Dubliners''===
On 10 June 1904, Joyce met [[Nora Barnacle]] for the first time. They met again on 16 June.{{sfn|Ellmann|1982|p=156}} On both days, the Feast of the Sacred Heart was celebrated in Irish Catholic churches.{{sfn|Lang|1993|p=99–100}} The feast originated on another 16 June, in 1675. A young nun, [[Margaret Mary Alacoque]], had visions of Christ exposing his heart. During the so-called "great apparition" on that date, he asked that a new feast be established to commemorate his suffering. (In the Library episode, Mulligan calls the nun "Blessed Margaret Mary Anycock!"{{sfn|Lang|1993|p=93}}) The Feast of the [[Sacred Heart]] was formally approved in the same year. The [[Jesuits]] popularized the devotion, and Ireland was the first nation to dedicate itself to the Sacred Heart.{{sfn|Lang|1993|pp=94–95}}

The young nun claimed that Christ had made 12 promises to all who would dedicate themselves to the Sacred Heart.{{sfn|Lang|1993|p=95}} The 12th promise offers "salvation to the one who receives communion on nine consecutive First Fridays".{{sfn|Ryan|2015|p=238}} Mrs. Kiernan in the ''Dubliners'' story "Grace" and Mr. Kearney in "A Mother" try to take advantage of this promise, as did Stephen's mother.{{sfn|Lang|1993|pp=96–97}} A colored print of the 12 promises hangs on Eveline's wall,{{sfn|Ryan|2015|pp=239, 240n}} and there are resemblances between her and Margaret Mary Alacoque and between Frank, her "open-hearted" suitor, and the Sacred Heart.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Torchiana |first1=Donald T. |date=Fall 1968 |title=Joyce's 'Eveline' and the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486736 |journal=James Joyce Quarterly |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=22–28 |jstor=25486736 |access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref> Both young women have been made a promise of salvation by a man professing love. [[Hugh Kenner]] argues that Frank has no intention of taking Eveline to [[Buenos Aires]] and will seduce and abandon her in Liverpool, where the boat is actually headed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kenner |first1=Hugh |date=Fall 1972 |title=Molly's Masterstroke |url=https://jjq.utulsa.edu/ |journal=James Joyce Quarterly |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=64–65 |access-date=22 February 2024}}</ref> Since "going to Buenos Aires" was slang for "taking up a life of prostitution",<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reinares |first1=Laura Barberan |date=Spring 2011 |title="'Like a Helpless Animal"? Like a Cautious Woman: Joyce's 'Eveline,' Immigration, and the Zwi Migdal in Argentina in the Early 1900s |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bx_pubs/8/ |journal=James Joyce Quarterly |volume=48 |issue=3 |page=531 |doi=10.1353/jjq.2011.0060 |access-date=5 March 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> it appears that Frank does intend to take Eveline to Buenos Aires, but not to make her his wife.{{sfn|Reinares|2011|pp=529–33}} That Eveline's print of the 12 promises made by the Sacred Heart hangs over a "broken" harmonium confirms the close similarity between the two suitors. In "Circe", the Sacred Heart devotion is concisely parodied in the apparition of Martha Clifford, Bloom's pen pal. She calls Bloom a "heartless flirt" and accuses him of "breach of promise".{{sfn|Lang|1993|p=100}}