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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat 1779-1865 |
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Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart,
was born in Joigny, France on December 12, 1779. She was a frail,
intensely thoughtful child, who knew with ruthless logic, before she
could talk, that God alone mattered...
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Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne 1769-1852 |
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 Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in Grenoble, an ancient city in the French Alps, on August 29, 1769. Strong-willed and impetuous, she was the eldest daughter of a large merchant family. She was educated at home and at the Visitation Monastery of St. Marie d'en Haut, located on a mountain above the city. She entered the cloister there against the wishes of her family...
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Janet Erskine Stuart 1857-1914 |
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 Janet Erskine Stuart was born November 11, 1857, in Cottesmore, Putland, England. Cottesmore, with its thatched cottage roofs, leafy lanes, flowered hedges, woods, and running brooks, was a child's paradise. Janet learned to love nature as God's unspoiled handiwork, and first became aware of God through observing the countryside...
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Mater Admirabilis |
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 In 1844, a generation after the Society of the Sacred Heart was founded, Pauline Perdrau, a young novice, took it upon herself to produce a fresco of the Virgin Mary on a wall in a recreational area of the Trinita dei Monti, a Sacred Heart school in Rome...
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