St. Madeline Sophie Barat
FOUNDRESS
Feast: May 25

Information:
Feast Day:
May 25
Born:
12 December 1779, Joigny, France
Died:
25 May 1865, Paris, France
Canonized:
24 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI

Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, born at Joigny, Burgundy, 12 December, 1779; died in Paris, 24 May, 1865. She was the youngest child of Jacques Barat, a vine-dresser and cooper, and his wife, Madeleine Foufé, and received baptism the morning after her birth, her brother Louis, aged eleven, … [More]