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Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in France, a world wide teaching Order of Religious dedicated to educating young women. Theme 4 - Summary Sophie Barat emerged gradually from the intense years of crisis rooted in the conviction that love and compassion was the path of truth for herself and for the members of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
Sophie Barat in 1838. To Sophie’s sorrow, Joseph-Marie died in 1838. Before his death he told Louise de Limminghe that he knew Sophie had not yet reached a resolution to her inner pain and struggles, though he was sure that ‘sooner or later grace triumphs’. How and when this would happen was hidden from him then and from Sophie Barat. And ...
Find information regarding access to the Sophie Barat Center as well as a contact form to communicate with the Center. Contact form By train By car By train From Paris Bercy or Paris Gare de Lyon SNCF stations – direction Auxerre – Dijon – Lyon, stop at Joigny.
As a French woman who also read Greek and Latin, Sophie understood the word spirit as esprit, which comes from the Latin word spiritus (courage, vigor, breath) Innate to all of us, spirituality speaks to our intuition that there is more to life than what we encounter on the surface, to our urgency to connect with a larger universe or truth, and to our intuition that this connection for which we long is with mystery or transcendence.
These exterior labours were far from absorbing all Mother Barat's time or energies; they coexisted with a life of ever-increasing holiness and continual prayer; for the real secret of her influence lay in her habitual seclusion from the outside world, in the strong religious formation of her daughters which this seclusion made possible, and in the enlightened, profound, and supernatural views on education which she communicated to the religious engaged in her schools.
Madeleine Sophie Barat, RSCJ (12 December 1779 - 25 May 1865), a French saint of the Catholic Church, was the founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a global religious institute focused on education. Early Life and Family: Barat was born on the night of 12 December 1779, in Joigny, France, ...
On another level, Sophie Barat was awake to the social, political, economic and religious currents operating in Europe and in the wider world of her time. By her awareness of their impact on the world of education Sophie Barat ensured the Society’s contribution to the education and the promotion of women in her time and into the future.
