AMASC - World Association of Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart

Foundress of the RSCJs - Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat

(Taken from the RSCJ's website http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/who-we-are/history-publicmenu-31.html) Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat was born in 1779 in Joigny, France. From a very early age she heard the call to follow Jesus in the religious life. On 21st November 1800, at the age of twenty, she made her first vows in Paris with other companions, and so the Society of the Sacred Heart was born. In her own heart was a twofold desire: to lead a life of prayer, and to help the society of her day. Throughout her life she kept trying to do God’s will; it led her to open innumerable houses in various countries, and to overcome every kind of difficulty and contradiction, in spite of her frail health. Her roots were in Jesus, and so she faced all her troubles with humility and trust, out of her deep desire to discover and show forth to others the love of the Heart of Jesus, a love that she herself experienced so powerfully. She died at the age of 85, leaving 3539 religious in 99 communities in Europe, America and Africa.
The Châsse of Saint Madeleine Sophie https://amasc-sacrecoeur.org/english/ChasseMSB.htm St Madeleine Sophie was in Brussels from the expulsions of 1904. She was permanently installed in the church of St Francis Xavier in Paris on Friday 19th June 2009, at the Mass of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, presided over by Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, in the presence of Kathleen Conan, Superior General, her Council, religious of the Sacred Heart from various countries, many parishioners, colleagues, friends, students, alumnae and young adults, lay people connected with the religious of the Sacred Heart throughout the world.

(Taken from the RSCJ's website
http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/who-we-are/history-publicmenu-31.html)

Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat was born in 1779 in Joigny, France. From a very early age she heard the call to follow Jesus in the religious life. On 21st November 1800, at the age of twenty, she made her first vows in Paris with other companions, and so the Society of the Sacred Heart was born. In her own heart was a twofold desire: to lead a life of prayer, and to help the society of her day.

Throughout her life she kept trying to do God’s will; it led her to open innumerable houses in various countries, and to overcome every kind of difficulty and contradiction, in spite of her frail health. Her roots were in Jesus, and so she faced all her troubles with humility and trust, out of her deep desire to discover and show forth to others the love of the Heart of Jesus, a love that she herself experienced so powerfully.

She died at the age of 85, leaving 3539 religious in 99 communities in Europe, America and Africa.

The Châsse of Saint Madeleine Sophie

https://amasc-sacrecoeur.org/english/ChasseMSB.htm

St Madeleine Sophie was in Brussels from the expulsions of 1904.
She was permanently installed in the church of St Francis Xavier in Paris on Friday 19th June 2009, at the Mass of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, presided over by Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, in the presence of Kathleen Conan, Superior General, her Council, religious of the Sacred Heart from various countries, many parishioners, colleagues, friends, students, alumnae and young adults, lay people connected with the religious of the Sacred Heart throughout the world.