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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat was bormin 1779 in Joigny, France. From a very early age she heard
| |e call I# follow Jesus in the reli'gious life. O n November 21, 1800, at the age o f twenty, she made
her first vows in Paris with other companions, and so the Society o f the Sacred Heart was born. In her
own heaijtwas.a twofolffdesire: to lead a life o f prayer, and to help the society o f her day.

Throughput kfedM B H flkept trying to do God's will; it led her to open innumerable houses in various
countries, and to overccSffll everylkjnd o f difficulty and contradiction, in spite o f her frail health.
Her ropts were in Jesus, and so she faced all her troubles with humility and trust, out o f her deep
desire to discover and show forth to others the love o f the Heart o f Jesus, a love that she herself
WfeHencedl.s,i>ppwMifully.

.She. died'.at the age o f 85, leaving 3 5 3 9 religious in 99 communities in Europe, America and Africa.