RELIQUARY BOX OF Beata Magdalena Sophia
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RELIQUARY BOX OF Beata Magdalena Sophia
( Indumentis - B. Magadalenae Sophie Barat V. )
Epoch: 1920s
Size: 2.3 cm diameter x 2 cm glass x 0.8 cm thickness (approximate measurements)
Reliquary theca housing the first class relic of Magdalena Sophia. The relic is affixed to red silk ground. Back under protective cap the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish was bearing an imprint of.
Madeleine Sophie Barat, RSCJ, (12 December 1779 – 25 May 1865), was a French saint of the Catholic Church who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart a worldwide religious institute of educators.
During her 65-year leadership, the Society of the Sacred Heart grew to include more than 3,500 members educating women in Europe, North Africa, North and South America. Barat died at the general motherhouse in Paris on Ascension Day, May 25, 1865. In 1879, she was declared venerable and was beatified on May 24, 1908. On May 24, 1925, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI.
Barat's mortal remains are located in an ornate reliquary in the Church of Saint François Cavier, Paris.
Barat was known to refuse to have her photograph or portrait taken, and it had been believed that no portrait of her existed from her lifetime, but there is photograph of her on her deathbed. In 1992, a portrait was discovered during a restoration at the convent of Sante Rufina e Seconda in Rome by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea. It is believed to have been painted prior to her beatification and sent from Italy to the Mother House in Paris in 1879. It currently hangs in the General Archives of the Society of the Sacred Heart.