Anne Remuzat was born at Marseilles, 29 November 1696, into a pious, wealthy family,[1] and was baptized the same day in the Église Notre-Dame-des-Accoules.

After initially refusing, her parents finally allowed her to enter the second Monastery of the Visitation, where one of her relatives was a nun.

She wrote the statutes for the Association of Perpetual Adoration of the Sacred Heart, which was established in Marseilles by Mgr de Belsunce in April 1718.

In 1720, during the plague at Marseilles, the Lord enjoined her to institute a feast in honour of the Sacred Heart, which Mgr de Belsunce established on 22 October 1720.

[2] In response to requests from French bishops, Pope Pius IX promulgated the feast of the Sacred Heart in 1856.

[3] Sr Anne-Madeleine fell gravely ill at the end of January and died on February 15, 1730.