Saint madeleine sophie barat biography of albert
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Today is the feast of Saint Michael de Sanctis, also known as St. Michael of the Saints, a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian priest, the patron of cancer patients. Michael Argemir was born on September 29, 1591 at Vic, Catalonia, Spain. At age 6, he told his parents that he planned to become a monk and began modeling his life after Saint Francis of Assisi. Michael’s parents died when he was about ten years old. He then served as an apprentice with a local merchant. During this apprenticeship, he continued his fervent devotion to the Lord, especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the age of 12, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert’s monastery in Saragosa four years later. Shortly afterwards, Michael expressed a desire to join the reformed group of Trinitarians and was given permission to do so. He went to the Novitiate at Madrid and, after studies at Seville and Salamanca, he was ordained a priest. Twice he served as Superior
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Children of Mary of the Sacred Heart
Lay association of the samhälle of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ).
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The Children of Mary of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic sodality founded by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat in Lyons, France in 1823 (some older sources say 1818, but their archivist says 1823).[1] It has also been referred to as the "Association of the Children of Mary," the "Congregation of the Children of Mary," the "Children of Mary Sodality," and by their French name, Enfants de Marie, often abbreviated E. de M.[2][3] Although groups run currently in the United States and Canada, this page refers primarily to the history before 1900.
Origins
[edit]Madeleine Sophie Barat (12 December 1779 – 25 May 1865) established this lay women's group eighteen years after the original Society of the Sacred Heart, the congregation of nuns that she founded in 1800.[4] It is a
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Sophie Barat and Joseph Marie Favre (1791-1838)
At the General Council in 1815 Sophie Barat was confirmed as the founder and leader of the Society of the Sacred Heart. As the Society grew and expanded rapidly Sophie’s task became ever more demanding and she progressively found it difficult to manage her energies. She became ill frequently, but in 1823, during a visit to Grenoble in the south of France, Sophie Barat collapsed and became seriously ill.
It took her many months to recover and in the following year, during her retreat in Chambery, Sophie Barat met Joseph-Marie Favre (1791-1838), a priest who became her friend and guide for several years. They understood each other since Joseph-Marie also grew up in a Jansenist family and he had experienced a similar negative impact of this theology on his own life. He also understood the effects of Louis Barat’s treatment of Sophie, first in Joigny and then in Paris. In the course of own life’s journey J