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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Buster Brown Decalced Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, July 17




These martyred Carmelites were caught up in the French Revolution. In 1790, the Revolutionary government ordered their monastery closed. Four years later, 16 of them were accused of living in a religious community. They were arrested, and were imprisoned in the Visitation Convent in Compiegne, then transported to Paris.

Compiegne, France

From Wikipedia:
 
" They were sent to the guillotine on 17 July 1794. They were notable in the manner of their deaths, as, at the foot of the scaffold, the community jointly renewed their vows and began to chant the Veni Creator Spiritus, the hymn sung at the ceremony for the profession of vows. They continued their singing as, one by one, they mounted the scaffold to meet their death."



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