Roman Catholic Saint. The Mother Superior of a convent of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns, aged 29 to 78, from the town of Compiegne. They were forced out of their convent during the French Revolution and tried for their fidelity to their vows and their Catholic Faith. Prior to being beheaded at the Place du Trone Renverse (today known as the Place de la Nation)they sang the hymn "Come Holy Spirit" that they each sang at their profession of vows. They renewed their baptismal and religious vows before ascending the scaffold to the guillotine. They were dressed in their Carmelite religious habits and the crowd that surrounded the specrtacle became absolutely silent as one by one each one was beheaded. Their bodies were stripped of their clothes and they were thrown into a common sand pit along with 1298 other victims of the Reign of Terror in the Picpus Cemetery in Paris. They were made famous in Gertrud von Le Fort's book "Song of the Scaffold". A more accurate account of their martyrdom can be found in William Bush's book, "To Quell the Terror". They are also the subject of Francis Poulenc's opera; "Dialogues des Carmelites". Ten days after their martyrdom the Reign of Terror came to an end. A small chapel in the cemetery records the names of the victims of the Reign of Terror whose bodies are interred in the 30 feet square sand pit in what had been before the French Revolution a convent garden. It is administered by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.All sixteen nuns were beatified on 27 May 1906.
Roman Catholic Saint. The Mother Superior of a convent of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns, aged 29 to 78, from the town of Compiegne. They were forced out of their convent during the French Revolution and tried for their fidelity to their vows and their Catholic Faith. Prior to being beheaded at the Place du Trone Renverse (today known as the Place de la Nation)they sang the hymn "Come Holy Spirit" that they each sang at their profession of vows. They renewed their baptismal and religious vows before ascending the scaffold to the guillotine. They were dressed in their Carmelite religious habits and the crowd that surrounded the specrtacle became absolutely silent as one by one each one was beheaded. Their bodies were stripped of their clothes and they were thrown into a common sand pit along with 1298 other victims of the Reign of Terror in the Picpus Cemetery in Paris. They were made famous in Gertrud von Le Fort's book "Song of the Scaffold". A more accurate account of their martyrdom can be found in William Bush's book, "To Quell the Terror". They are also the subject of Francis Poulenc's opera; "Dialogues des Carmelites". Ten days after their martyrdom the Reign of Terror came to an end. A small chapel in the cemetery records the names of the victims of the Reign of Terror whose bodies are interred in the 30 feet square sand pit in what had been before the French Revolution a convent garden. It is administered by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.All sixteen nuns were beatified on 27 May 1906.
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