Madeleine Sophie Barat: A Life by Phil Kilroy

Phil Kilroy is a full-time independent scholar
and a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
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December 12th  marks the anniversary of our beloved St. Madeleine Sophie Barat's birth 

"Born in 1779 on the eve of the Revolution, Barat was caught up in the movement to restore and recreate a society devastated by violence and war.  Madeleine Sophie Barat: A Life tracks her development from her childhood in the Bourgogne, through her leadership of a community of women devoted to education both in France and abroad, to her death in Paris in 1865.  Several profound movements in eighteenth - and nineteenth-century France and Europe marked her life, including the Revolution with its consequent volatile political situations, as well as the tangled complexities of Gallicanism and Ultramontanism. This book also explores Sophie Barat's spiritual journey, from her dark Jansenistic roots to her belief in a loving, warm and tender God, as expressed in devotion to the Sacred Heart." 

 Taken from the book: Madeleine Sophie Barat: A Life by Phil Kilroy, R.S.C.J.

Happy Birthday dear St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

Sophie's Fire
The Story of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
by Constance Solari

December 12, 1779 ~  The day our beloved St. Madeleine Sophie Barat was born in Joigny.  Below is an excerpt from the website ~ sophiesfire.com ~ Sophie's Fire: The Story of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat.  For more information or to order a copy of the book click here.

"In the midst of a raging fire on a winter night in 1779, a Burgundian woman went into early labor and delivered a child who never should have survived.  Instead, the tiny infant—Madeleine Sophie Barat—went on to thrive in a France wracked and torn by revolution, terror, Napoleonic domination, and all that followed in their wake. Possessed of a vision of a world dedicated to generosity and love, she founded a religious order and an international network of schools that still flourish today: the schools of the sacred heart. In 1925 she was declared a saint. Passionate, brilliant, politically savvy, and aware of the powerful potential of women to reshape society, Sophie is a role model for our own times."