Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne
Also known as
- Sixteen Blessed Teresian Martyrs of Compiègne
Profile
Eleven Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters and two lay women servants who were martyred together in the French Revolution. They were the earliest martyrs of the French Revolution that have been recognized.
- Blessed Angelique Roussel
- Blessed Anne Pelras
- Blessed Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret
- Blessed Catherine Soiron
- Blessed Élisabeth-Julitte Vérolot
- Blessed Marie Dufour
- Blessed Marie Hanniset
- Blessed Marie-Anne Piedcourt
- Blessed Marie-Anne-Françoise Brideau
- Blessed Marie-Claude-Cyprienne Brard
- Blessed Marie-Françoise de Croissy
- Blessed Marie-Gabrielle Trezel
- Blessed Marie-Geneviève Meunier
- Blessed Marie-Madeleine-Claudine Lidoine
- Blessed Rose-Chretien de Neuville
- Blessed Thérèse Soiron
- guillotined on 17 July 1794 at the Place du Trône Renversé (modern Place de la Nation) in Paris, France
- before their execution they knelt and chanted the “Veni Creator”, as at a profession, after which they all renewed aloud their baptismal and religious vows
- the heads and bodies of the martyrs were interred in a deep sand-pit about thirty feet square in a cemetery at Picpus
- as this sand-pit was the receptacle of the bodies of 1,298 victims of the French Revolution, there seems to be no hope of their relics being recovered
- five secondary relics in the possession of the Benedictine sisters of Stanbrook, Worcestershire, England
- in 2009, the Stanbrook sisters, and the relics, re-located to Wass, Yorkshire, England
- 27 May 1906 by Pope Pius X
- miracles proved during the process of beatification were
- cure of Sister Clare of Saint Joseph, a Carmelite lay sister of New Orleans, Louisiana when on the point of death from cancer in June 1897
- cure of the Abbé Roussarie of the seminary at Brive when at the point of death on 7 March 1897
- cure of Sister Saint Martha of Saint Joseph, a Carmelite lay sister of Vans of tuberculosis and an abcess in the right leg on 1 December 1897
- cure of Sister Saint Michael, a Franciscan of Montmorillon on 9 April 1898
MLA Citation
- “Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne“. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 January 2022. Web. 29 April 2024. <>