St. Bernardine of Siena, Franciscan of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and his disciples were the apostles who spread this cult in Italy and Europe. In 1530, Clement VII granted the Franciscan Order the celebration of the Office of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Innocent XIII, in the 18th century, extended the feast to the universal Church.
Later, the IHS will become the symbol of the Society of Jesusfounded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A Greek, Latin and Jewish perspective converge in a single symbol. The cross of the "H", now also in capital letters, always unites the name and the cross, and the three nails often represented below recall the passion of Christ, but also the three religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, explained Fr. Jean-Paul Hernandez S.J.
St. Genevieve (Nanterre, 420), virgin, is patron saint of Paris. She protected the Parisians and urged them to defend the city from the attacks of Attila and the Huns, who finally passed them by, and then helped them in the fight against famine.
