RÉMUZAT, Anne-Madeleine, Venerable. - Visitandine propagator of the cult of the Sacred Heart, b. at Marseille in 1696, d. there on 15 February 1730.

She entered the Visitation of Marseille, where it was revealed to her that she was to continue the work of St. Margaret Mary. Her reputation for holiness soon made itself felt even outside the monastery. R. announced the plague that was to devastate Marseille if the city did not amend its ways, and, later, the end of the scourge on condition that the feast of the Sacred Heart be instituted for the day after the octave of Corpus Domini (1720). Several years before her death she received the stigmata. Her ashes were scattered during the Revolution, but her heart was saved and rests at the Visitation of Marseille.

R. wrote the statutes of the Archconfraternity of Perpetual Adoration of the Sacred Heart. She carried on a very active correspondence with many people, of which, however, only a few fragments of letters addressed to her director Fr. Girard remain. Fragments of her writings are also found in the works of Fr. Jacques, particularly in the biography of R. published by him in 1760.

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BIBL.: M. Gasquet, La vénérable A.-M. R., Paris 1935; anonymous, La propagatrice du Sacré Cœur, par une religieuse de la Visitation (s. n. t.).

Ferdinando Renaud

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Rémuzat, Anne-Madeleine, Venerable

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