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.
Madeleine Sophie 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.

Her mortal remains are located in an ornate reliquary in the church of St Francis Xavier in Paris.

Sophie Barat was known to refuse to have either her photograph or her portrait taken, and it has been believed that no portrait of her existed from her lifetime.
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.

One of her earliest biographers was Louis Baunard, who wrote Histoire de la vénérable Mère Madeleine-Sophie Barat, fondatrice de la Société du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus.
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. Madeleine Sophie 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.
Her mortal remains are located in an ornate reliquary in the church of St Francis Xavier in Paris.
Sophie Barat was known to refuse to have either her photograph or her portrait taken, and it has been believed that no portrait of her existed from her lifetime. 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.
One of her earliest biographers was Louis Baunard, who wrote Histoire de la vénérable Mère Madeleine-Sophie Barat, fondatrice de la Société du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus.
Madeleine Sophie Barat