The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order. The feast originated by a provincial synod of Cologne (1413) to expiate the crimes of the iconoclast Hussites.
It was kept at a great variety of dates, mostly during Eastertide or shortly after Pentecost, or on some fixed day of a month. From the end of the fifteenth century in several dioceses the scope of this feast was widened to commemorate either five dolours (sorrows), from the imprisonment to the burial of Christ, or seven dolours, extending over the entire life of Mary.
Pius VII extended the feast to the Latin Church (September 18, 1814).
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