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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 martyrs are inscribed in the current Roman Martyrology on 19 January. [5] Their feast or commemoration was included on that date in the General Roman Calendar from the 9th century to 1969, when they were excluded because nothing is known with certainty about them except their names, their place of burial (the cemetery Ad Nymphas on the Via ...
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer (French: La Dernière Prière des martyrs chrétiens), also known as The Christian Martyrs and The Last Prayer, is an 1883 painting by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. [1] It is part of the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton, c. 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English recusant, [2] and a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, [3] known as The Pearl of York.She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
While the many Roman martyrs and popes that remained (the popes reduced from 38 to 15) [13] ensured that the tradition of a Roman calendar was preserved, the revised calendar also endeavored to maintain a certain geographical and chronological balance, by selecting from the martyrs inscribed in the 1960 calendar, the more famous ancient saints ...
She also gradually abandoned prayer, starting to hesitate between marriage and the convent. [10] At 22 she took a spiritual director who led her back to prayer. At the end of the year 1780, during a retreat in a Benedictine convent, she tried to stay in the convent but his mother collected her and forced her back to the family home.
Finally, as the last of the martyrs, she was scourged, placed on a red-hot grate, enclosed in a net and thrown before a wild steer, which tossed her into the air with his horns. In the end, she was killed with a dagger. [6] Jules Comparat,The Martyrdom of Saint Blandina (1886), typanum of the Church of Saint-Blandine de Lyon, Lyon
Perpetua and Felicity (Latin: Perpetua et Felicitas; c. 182 [6] – c. 203) were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. [7]