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Looting of a church during the Revolution, by Swebach-Desfontaines (c. 1793). The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Catholic Church to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion ...
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
The Popes Pius. Archived from the original on 12 March 2005 "Conclaves of the 19th Century (1799-1878)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church "Papal State and Papacy, 1799–1809". History of the Papal State; R. Obechea, El Cardinel Lorenzana en el conclave de Venezia (1975).
They were sent to Paris on 12 July 1794 for judgment. They arrived in the court of the Conciergerie after a difficult journey. The nuns had their hands tied behind their backs and struggled as they were ordered to descend from the carriage. Charlotte was unable to get up without her crutch, and was thus unable to descend from the carriage.
The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia. The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus", or Ragnar, who tentatively has been identified with the legendary saga character Ragnar Lodbrok .
The crusade for which the Congress of Mantua had been convoked made no progress. In November 1463, Pope Pius II tried to organize the crusade against the Ottomans, similar to what Nicholas V and Calixtus III had tried to do before him. Pius II invited all the Christian nobility to join, and the Venetians immediately answered the appeal.
The document begins with an introduction on why the document was written. Title I focuses on the dioceses and how they were to be administered. Title II focuses on the administration of the dioceses and how elections were to take place. Title III focuses on payment because the Clergy was a salaried employee of the State. [5] [page needed]
Francis I died in 1547, and his son, Henry II, continued to decorate Paris in the French Renaissance style: the finest Renaissance fountain in the city, the Fontaine des Innocents, was built to celebrate Henry's official entrance into Paris in 1549. Henry II also added a new wing to the Louvre, the Pavillon du Roi, to the south along the Seine ...